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Apple to fix bug that causes iPhone messenger crashes

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By Nesh Pillay, Reporter

May 27, 2015 | 2 min read

Apple plans to fix the bug that can cause an iPhone to crash by simply receiving a text message of symbols and Arabic characters.

The bug was first reported on Reddit after users reported the security concern.

Once an iPhone receives a message with the symbols, it will crash and restart. From then on, the phone will crash whenever the messages app is opened.

However, there are a few people who don’t get affected by the bug, indicating that it may only work on certain phones with certain updates and settings.

“We are aware of an iMessage issue caused by a specific series of Unicode characters and we will make a fix available in a software update,” said a spokesperson for Apple.

In the meanwhile, users can protect themselves can uncheck the ‘Show in lockscreen’ option in their messenger settings in addition to turning off banner notifications.

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