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A simple text message sent to your message on iOS can crash your phone and if it happens when the phone is lock – it can crash the phone as well.

 

I won’t be publishing the text message here – I don’t really want to perpetuate the problem but it’s easy enough to find if you google around a bit.

 

There are plenty of pranksters crashing their friend’s phones and well people aren’t too happy about. The phone will continue to crash if another message isn’t sent from the same contact, in iMessage or something like that.

 

It doesn’t even have to be iPhone to iPhone, windows and android phone can send the crashing message as well.

 

Apple will no doubt fix the bug in a coming update – but until then … be careful.

 

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