Video: How to Avoid Your iPhone From Crashing due to the Text bug
The text message bug which has been crashing iPhones gets fixed with a simple hack.
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With reports of iPhones crashing when a certain string of characters is received via text, technicians have found a way to deal with the problem.
Michael Depape of iDenver Repairs says disabling “allow notifications’’ seems to prevent the string of text from crashing a phone.
Meanwhile, Apple has also released a quick-fix to deal with the issue.
Apple is aware of an iMessage issue caused by a specific series of unicode characters and we will make a fix available in a software update. Until the update is available, you can use these steps to re-open the Messages app.
- Ask Siri to “read unread messages.”
- Use Siri to reply to the malicious message. After you reply, you’ll be able to open Messages again.
- If the issue continues, tap and hold the malicious message, tap More, and delete the message from the thread.