Ondrej Holzman Users have discovered an annoying bug in the iOS 8 operating system. If someone sends you a message with specific Unicode characters on your iPhone, iPad, or even Apple Watch, it can cause your entire device to restart.
Unicode is a table of characters of all existing alphabets, and it seems that the Messages application, or rather its notification banner, cannot cope with displaying a specific set of characters. Everything will result in the application crashing or even restarting the entire system.
That text, which can also prevent further access to the Messages application, does contain Arabic characters (see image), but it is not a hacker attack or that iPhones cannot cope with Arabic characters. The problem is that the notification cannot fully render the given Unicode characters, after which the device's memory fills up and a restart occurs.
It is not entirely clear which version of iOS is affected by this issue, however users are reporting various versions from iOS 8.1 to the current 8.3. Not every user will experience the same symptoms – the application crashes, the system restarts, or the inability to open Messages again.
The error only occurs if you receive a notification with the wording of the incriminating message - either on the lock screen or in the form of a small banner at the top when the device is unlocked - not when you have the conversation open and the message arrives at that moment. However, it does not have to be only the Messages application, but also other communication tools through which a similar message can be received.
Apple has already announced that it is going to fix the bug, which actually affects specific Unicode characters, and will bring a fix in the next software update.
If you want to avoid possible problems, it is possible to turn off notifications for Messages (and possibly other applications), but if one of your friends doesn't want to shoot you, you probably don't have to worry about anything. In the event that you have already fallen victim to the annoying error and cannot get into the Messages application, just send any photo from Pictures to the given contact from whom you received the problematic text. The application will then open again.
"Unicode is a common way to encode, exchange and then decode and render text" but Mr. Holzman, what kind of encoding?
Better read up on it first before posting such nonsense.
Why. It would also like to add that it exists thanks to Apple and no one will solve it :-)
I was going to send it via Hangouts but it sure as hell yells at me before I send it, dammit :-)
effective.
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I remember the times when something similar worked on old Siemens :D
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Sometimes on my iPhone 5 an incoming sms just shows up as a cloud with no text, then I ask the sender, which is usually my wife, to resend it to me via messenger. Sometimes it's infuriating. The operators claim that it is not their fault.
And sometimes it happens that the screen turns blue and the iPhone 6 restarts. So I wonder if Bill and his terrible "blue death" have a hand in it :) But no, it's important - it happens when writing a report, but I didn't find any regularity or system :(
it happened to me too, but I deleted the iPhone from games and the application and it stopped, but which app did it and if it was that vi buh
Jojo, I can't figure out what combination it is. But it hasn't happened in a week, so it's OK :)
if someone can't open it after trying the Messages app, don't do it through photos, but through sending Notes. In this way, you will avoid paying MMSka if it cannot be done via data.
the same thing happens if you receive it by email, a "blub" who calls himself H0n7a_CZ is doing TROTL!!!!
deleting mail on the computer and turning off/on the iPhone will help
For those who have already received this message from a good friend, I figured out how to get rid of it.
You just need to create some data text in the notes to share, share via messages, give the name of the person in question who sent it to you, it immediately puts you in the conversation but it doesn't fall and send him back part of the text
لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً and then you can get to the messages normally tested on five iPhones :)