This SMS can make iPhone crash and switch off

This SMS can make iPhone crash and switch off

The iPhone is arguably the world's most advanced smartphone. But despite all the magic packed into it, the phone is also surprisingly vulnerable to a strange bug that results in crashing of the phone when a particular message is received.
According to reports, if you send the following message to an iPhone user, it would crash the device of the receiver. The phone will freeze when it receives this and will then reboot.

A website called 9to5Mac, which reports on Apple-related matters, said that Apple was aware of the bug and was working on a fix.

"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," Apple reportedly said in a statement.
The bug, which includes symbols and Arabic characters, was first reported by Apple news blog MacRumors on Tuesday night, adding that it was noticed on social news hub Reddit earlier in the day.

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