This message will crash your Iphone – TV 2

More Iphone users have over the past day received a mysterious text message that gets their phone to crash.

In practice this means that the mysterious message, which contains a variety of symbols and signs, get your cell phone to make a restart. When your iPhone turns on again, Messages app in many cases crash when trying to open the program.

The reason is this newfound bug related to the operating system iOS and Messages app. Problem was first featured on the website Reddit.

Sends around message

A quick search on the micro-blogging service Twitter shows that a number of people have received the mysterious message.

Whoever made That message crash has a special place in hell for themselve

– James Buckley (@ james_buckley97) May 27, 2015

Many people have now begun to send it to friends and acquaintances for fun.

Stop sending That message That makes phones crash bc it’s Causing somepeople’s iMessage two not open

– savantha (nobleselise) May 27, 2015

Iphone will not make a restart if the Messages app is open at that moment the phone receives a mysterious message.

To fix

The site 9to5Mac reviewing several methods that can get the app to work again. The simplest is in many cases to get the person who sent you crash message to send you a new message. Another possibility is to send yourself a message, for example, from a Mac, according to the website.

Another site, Iclarified.com, writes that one can solve the problem by sending a random image via Photos app to the person sent you crash message.

– Can be used by intelligence and criminal

Also previously similar mistakes led to problems for Iphone users.

– There have been a round earlier. This is usually fixed by Apple in Ios update. This crash will certainly be corrected in the next update. This is something Apple is aware of, says CEO Magnus Brøyn in Coxit to TV 2.

According Brøyn visible message another vulnerability.

– This demonstrates that it is possible to send messages to smartphones, and in this way monitor the phone. This is something that is exploited by both criminals and intelligence agencies. Although this message is apparently innocent, then shows the bit of vulnerability we have to live with, he adds.