cherlapallifailure Posted May 28, 2015 Report Posted May 28, 2015 An Apple spokesperson has now responded, saying: "We are aware of an iMessage issue caused by a specific series of unicode characters and we will make a fix available in a software update." Original story: Apple's iMessage platform has been subject to a new bug that shuts down your entire iPhone after receiving the message "effective. Power لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ 冗". The second half is Arabic and if you're not currently in the iMessage with a person it'll send your phone into a reboot no matter what it's doing – it's proved very frustrating for some users and it's not certain what the long term effects are. Here's the fix: head into your Settings app, then the Notifications tab, Messages and then switch off the slider called "show on local screen and under "alert style when unlocked" choose "none." It's a pretty simple fix but it means if you're sent any more pesky iMessages you won't be sent into the reboot again.
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