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And Now Apple Has A Exploit In iOS Messages That Can Crash Your iDevice

Apple has a lot of issues right now. On top of this issue with a zero day exploit with iOS mail, Apple now has a bug with with iOS Messages where a combination of characters sent to you via Messages can cause your iOS device to crash. Here’s an example:

If you get hit with this, you need to hard reboot your phone, or in some cases you may have to restore your phone from a backup.

In other words, this is a nasty bug.

It’s been a while since Apple has been hit with a Messages bug that caused your iOS device to crash. This seemed to be a common thing all the way up to iOS 11. And there have been a couple of cases where Apple has pushed out a software update to fix this sort of issue within hours of the issue being discovered. So I fully expect to see a software update as early as Tuesday to fix this and perhaps also fix the Mail bug as well seeing as that is likely being exploited in the wild.

Tune in tomorrow to find out if I am right.

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6 Responses to “And Now Apple Has A Exploit In iOS Messages That Can Crash Your iDevice”

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