Apple Fixes iMessage Crashing Bug in iOS 8.4 Beta 4

[Shirasaki]

I just sent myself this message using iOS 9 Beta 1 and now my battery life is rubbish.

iOS 9 beta 1 battery is just a rubbish. However this beta is free from "Power" bug messages.

 

[The Doctor11]

God forbid high school students would have to put away the phone and talk to somebody face to face.

Yes god for bid. It's been a bit of a rough month for us. Each crash takes 30-60 seconds out of our days. That's time we could be watching YouTube or something.

 

[dmylrea]

God forbid high school students would have to put away the phone and talk to somebody face to face.

Add in college, too. Our twin daughters (in college) don't really know how to interact with real people. Seriously. One has an e-boyfriend, and the other (when not with her boyfriend) is glued to her laptop Skyping him. When doing neither, she's staring at her iPhone on the internet. Neither girls actually use a phone to call and talk to anyone. Wonder what they would do without internet?

 

[RDeckard]

Add in college, too. Our twin daughters (in college) don't really know how to interact with real people. Seriously. One has an e-boyfriend, and the other (when not with her boyfriend) is glued to her laptop Skyping him. When doing neither, she's staring at her iPhone on the internet. Neither girls actually use a phone to call and talk to anyone. Wonder what they would do without internet?

Be pregnant? (Thank you, internet!)

 

[mazz0]

At least your phone won't crash from receiving a text message.

No, it'll just run out o

 

[hovscorpion12]

Hoping the Apple Watch is no longer affected.

 

[perkedel]

well finally, sure take their sweet ass time on that one. still not out for the general usage though.

 

[ArmCortexA8]

Apple seeded the fourth beta of iOS 8.4 to developers yesterday with a fix for a messaging bug that causes an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to crash after receiving a specific string of Unicode characters via iMessage or SMS (via HDBlog.it). The bug also affects the Mac and Apple Watch and extends to third-party messaging apps such as Snapchat, Twitter and WhatsApp, as the issue is tied to the way banner notifications process Unicode....

I received these characters via sms and was running and earlier version of iOS 8.4 and no issues - I just deleted it. One example where installing the latest beta version saved me from any issues.

 

[entropys]

Does anyone know what the Arabic means?

 

[Tech198]

So, i guess with this bug, you are now REALLY relying on Siri to actually understand you huh ?

 

[Benjamin Frost]

need to get this out to everyone. Hopefully they will do a push soon.

Someone giving birth?

 

[gnasher729]

People made this out to be soooooo awesome. I sent it to my GF and it didn't anything to her phone but messed with my phone and took me 15 minutes to get it back up. Guess that's Karma

I'm sure if it had messed up her phone, you would have been the one to sort it out as well, or we would be talking about your ex-GF here.

 

[KdParker]

Someone giving birth?

non IT I see.

 

[towkaynew]

Watch me resetting five iPhones at the same time using this bug @

!!!

 

[Solomani]

I just hope Apple releases a stable solid version of iOS 8.4 already…. BEFORE iOS 9 is pushed out the door. Because as everyone knows, once iOS 9 is released, you won't have a chance to install or retrograde back to iOS 8.x

Doubt that iOS 9 will even support my aging iPod Touch. So 8.4 may be my last upgrade for this thing.

 

[C DM]

I just hope Apple releases a stable solid version of iOS 8.4 already…. BEFORE iOS 9 is pushed out the door. Because as everyone knows, once iOS 9 is released, you won't have a chance to install or retrograde back to iOS 8.x

Doubt that iOS 9 will even support my aging iPod Touch. So 8.4 may be my last upgrade for this thing.

Well it will certainly be out before iOS 9. Seems like sometime this month (June).

You should already know what devices are supported by iOS 9, and as I recall they are the same ones as the ones supported by iOS 8.

 

[hovscorpion12]

Well it will certainly be out before iOS 9. Seems like sometime this month (June).

You should already know what devices are supported by iOS 9, and as I recall they are the same ones as the ones supported by iOS 8.

iOS 8.4 will release on June 30.

 

[C DM]

iOS 8.4 will release on June 30.

Was that specific date mentioned as the release date?

 

[hovscorpion12]

It was the end of the keynote talking about the price of Apple Music and that it will go live June 30 with iOS 8.4

 

[Thunderhawks]

Add in college, too. Our twin daughters (in college) don't really know how to interact with real people. Seriously. One has an e-boyfriend, and the other (when not with her boyfriend) is glued to her laptop Skyping him. When doing neither, she's staring at her iPhone on the internet. Neither girls actually use a phone to call and talk to anyone. Wonder what they would do without internet?

My daughter (college years) went out with a group of about 15-20 friends. I happened to be at the same restaurant.
About 90% plus of the time all these friends who were "TOGETHER" were texting with somebody else,
glued to their phones, ignoring everybody at the table.

When I mentioned it to my daughter she just said: Dad, you don't understand!

Couldn't have put it better myself.

 

[Benjamin Frost]

My daughter (college years) went out with a group of about 15-20 friends. I happened to be at the same restaurant.
About 90% plus of the time all these friends who were "TOGETHER" were texting with somebody else,
glued to their phones, ignoring everybody at the table.

When I mentioned it to my daughter she just said: Dad, you don't understand!

Couldn't have put it better myself.

We're raising a world of zombies.