New Apple iOS ‘text bomb’ can cause your iPhone or iPad to crash

New Apple iOS ‘text bomb’ can cause your iPhone or iPad to crash
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A text message is reportedly causing iOS devices to crash

It reportedly consists of the Italian flag and some characters in the Sindhi language

Apple should release a fix for the issue soon

It looks like Apple iOS users are at the mercy of another ‘text bomb’ that is said to crash iPhones and iPads. The ‘bomb’ consists of a string of text that causes the OS to crash or become unresponsive to touch input. Reports suggest that people have started sharing For obvious reasons, we will not be sharing the text here, but it consists of the Italian Flag emoji and a bunch of characters from the Sindhi language. According to a report by 9to5mac, when an iPhone, iPad Mac or even an Apple Watch receives a notification with this text string, it causes problems mentioned above, 

A tweet by Everything Apple Pro shows the problem in action.

 

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