As much as Apple products are adored around the world, their creators have to admit that they have to battle some bugs. It is difficult to understand that a single message could crash any iPhone, iPad or Mac. However, as a new bug comes to light, some users are using the flaw as an opportunity to mess around.
A single symbol can disrupt Apple products
Originally, the vulnerability in Apple devices was noticed by Italian researchers, working for Blog Mobile World. Soon enough, an announcement of the flaw appeared on their official page. The specialists warned people that the harmful message can prevent users from using their iPhones and other popular Apple products. In addition to this, compromised users won’t be able to open most of the popular messaging apps.
The mysterious symbol comes from a native Indian language called Telugu. After being sent, the message will fail to load, but will block access to the Apple products. It has been creating havoc on a number of devices, as random people attempt to see whether this flaw actually works. We hope that you won’t be one of the immature people that will use this bug for entertainment. Nonetheless, the bug is not fatal as is pretty easy to reverse the inflicted damage.
How can Apple product be saved from this bomb?
Since the bug will block your access to most of the messaging apps, users will have a difficult time using their Apple devices. However, victims should ask their friends to message them thru the same app that got them into this mess. Then, users will be able to open their app and fix this issue. This can be done by deleting the whole chat with the person that decided to play a trick on you.
Apple has been informed of the detected flaw and has made plans to fix this issue. People can be expecting an update sooner than the iOS 11.3 release date. Until then, be careful when opening messages thru Slack, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Gmail, Outlook, iMessage and other messaging applications. A trickster might be interested in testing this bug, and your iPhone will suffer the consequences.
Source: bgr.in.
