But the message must contain a specific series of Arabic characters, so you're likely to receive it only as a prank. And there are ways to resolve the problem. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology ...

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Apple device owners have discovered a string of text characters that, when received on an iPhone in Messages, can lock people out of the app and — reportedly in some cases — crash the phone. Users who ...

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An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Apple's iPhone software has once again been affected by a bug that makes it possible to crash an iPhone when receiving a specific string of text ...

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A bug in Apple’s CoreText rendering engine in iOS 6 and OS X 10.8 causes any apps that try to render a string of Arabic characters to crash on sight. The string of characters which can trigger the bug ...