Wednesday, 18 January 2017

This emoji message instantly freezes some iPhones

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Be careful out there, iPhone users: a simple three-character combination, when send as a message, can crash and freeze your friend's iPhone

The trick, publicly unveiled on YouTube channel EverythingApplePro, does not work on every iPhone and is not that simple to pull off, but it works, with pretty nasty results. 

The message-of-death consists three visible characters: a white flag, a zero and a rainbow emoji, as well as an invisible character, called variation sector 16 or VS16. When the message is received, the VS16 signals the iPhone's Messages app to combine the two emoji into one, which cannot be done and can cause the app to crash and the phone to freeze. Read more...

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