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iPhone 'Text Bomb' Bug ?
As reported by MacRumors, The latest Apple mobile OS version iOS 13.4.1 has a craziest "Text Bomb" bug that forces the device (Mac, Apple Watch, iPhone, or iPad) to crash after receiving an app notification containing a certain string of characters. Interestingly, the characters are in the 'Sindhi language' while the text also includes 'Italian flag emoji' also it makes overloads your device and causes it to shut down.
The new iPhone character bug seen in messages could affect almost all Apple devices, including iPhones, MacBooks, Apple Watches, and Apple TVs. However, iOS devices seem to be facing issues right now.
iPhone "Text Bomb" ?
Text bomb bugs have already surfaced quite a few times, and unfortunately, most of the times Apple iOS fell victim to such bugs. Similar to this Back in 2018, a character string bug in the Telugu language scattered around the internet, hitting thousands of devices before Apple addressed the problem in the latest iOS update.
However, This Bug has first seen on Reddit, as the bug appeared whenever an iOS device receives this notification from an app, which could be any app including Messages app, Whatsapp, or social media apps such as Twitter, containing this particular string of text, the device starts malfunctioning. Since the text string can appear in any application’s notifications, it is most likely to affect thousands of users at the same time.
Apple's famous Leakster, EverythingApplePro (@EveryApplePro) posted a video yesterday on Twitter stating that the presence of Italian flag emoji doesn’t make any difference because the device crashes anyway because of the Sindhi characters. For your information, Sindhi is a language spoken in Pakistan and India.
The craziest iOS crash text bug ? pic.twitter.com/29LJPb67WP— EverythingApplePro (@EveryApplePro) April 23, 2020
How to Fix iPhone "Text Bomb"
The only way to fix this bug is to immediately "reboot your device". Apple is reportedly working on a security patch to fix this bug.
Meanwhile, Apple has to release a software update with a fix for the character bug.