iOS is plagued by a critical bug that can cause communication apps to stop working. The fix is coming

16. 2. 2018

In recent days, information began to appear on the web that the current version of the iOS operating system suffers from another serious problem. The system should be very sensitive to the reception of a specific character from the Indian alphabet, which when the user receives a message (be it an iMessage, e-mail, message for Whatsapp and others) the entire internal iOS Springboard system crashes and basically cannot be put back . This will make it impossible to send any messages, emails or use other methods of communication. However, a fix is already on the way.

The error was encountered by Italian bloggers who managed to reproduce it both on an iPhone with iOS 11.2.5 and on the latest version of macOS. If a message containing a character from the Indian dialect of Telugu comes into this system, the entire internal communication system (iOS Springboard) crashes and cannot be restored. The application in which the message came will no longer open, whether it is a mail client, iMessage, Whatsapp and others.

In the case of iMessage, the situation can only be solved in a rather cumbersome way, where the same user has to send you one more message, thanks to which it will be possible to delete the entire conversation from the phone, then it will be possible to use iMessage again. However, in the case of other applications, a similar solution is very complex, even unavailable. The error appears both in the popular application Whatsapp, as well as in Facebook Messenger, Gmail, and Outlook for iOS.

As it turned out later, in the current beta versions of iOS 11.3 and macOS 10.13.3, this problem is solved. However, these versions will not be released until spring. Apple issued a statement last night that it will not wait until the spring for a fix and that in the following days they will release a small security patch that will fix this bug in iOS and macOS.

Source: The Verge, Appleinsider

Topics: iOS 11, WhatsApp, iMessage, AppleInsider, Facebook, Email, MacOS, phone, iOS, user

Discussion of the article

Just Pepé Pajda

16. 2. 2018 11:50

Meanwhile, Apple is churning out new and new racially and gender balanced emoji =/

cakpuh

16. 2. 2018 13:37

When he runs the company warmly, it looks like this. Apple is not a hairdresser.

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