Apple iOS 11

[sumitroy]

https://twitter.com/x/status/956165331562696705

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[Mayur]

Apple's Business Chat will take on the likes of WhatsApp Business, and Facebook Messenger.

Apple announces ‘Business Chat’ on iOS 11.3

 

[Bapun]

Apple previews iOS 11.3

 

[sumitroy]

If the character is displayed within an application (WhatsApp, Twitter, etc.), the app in question will crash and will continue to close each time you try to start it. The situation gets worse if someone sends you the symbol and iOS tries to show it in a notification: in this case, the entire Springboard (ie the system software that manages the Home) will be blocked.

Receiving an Indian character crashes Messages and other apps in iOS 11

 

[sumitroy]

Surprise! People on the internet have weaponized the Unicode-based bug we reported yesterday to insta-crash apps running on an iPhone or a Mac. The result is somewhere between the old Alt + F4 trick and a script kiddie stunt, and it ranges from being annoying to rendering a device unusable, depending on the tenacity of the troll.

So, ultimately, the full set of cases that cause the crash are:

Any sequence <consonant1, virama, consonant2, ZWNJ, vowel> in Devanagari, Bengali, and Telugu, where:

consonant2 is suffix-joining – i.e. र, র, য, and all Telugu consonants
If consonant2 is र or র, consonant1 is not the same letter (or a variant, like ৰ)
vowel is not ై or ৌ

People are trolling iPhone users with the ‘killer symbol’ that crashes their apps

 

[Sarkar]

People are trolling iPhone users with the ‘killer symbol’ that crashes their apps

How does a single character cause a phone to crash?

Truly impressive programming by Apple Inc

 

[Bapun]

People Are Blasting iOS 'Text Bombs' on Twitter to Crash iPhones

 

[sumitroy]

How does a single character cause a phone to crash?

not only phone almost every apple product

The bug instigates crashes on iPhones, iPads, Macs and even Watch OS devices that display text containing the symbol on their screens.

This new text bomb crashes most Mac and iOS apps with a single Unicode symbol

 

[Bapun]

How does a single character cause a phone to crash?

Truly impressive programming by Apple Inc

Power of Unicode! Use it wisely or it will mess you up badly. :blush:

 

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Apple fixed this lagging issue with 11.2.6