The character means in english "sign"
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Apple Releases iOS 11.2.6 With Fix for Telugu Character Bug That Causes iOS Devices to Crash
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****......not again.....almost an update every month..... getting sick with the update...
Apple today released iOS 11.2.6, the eleventh official update to the iOS 11 operating system. iOS 11.2.6 comes approximately one month after the launch of iOS 11.2.5, an update that introduced support for the HomePod, Control Center updates, Siri news, and a slew of bug fixes.
The iOS 11.2.6 update can be downloaded for free on all eligible devices over-the-air in the Settings app. To access the update, go to Settings --> General --> Software Update.
Apple released iOS 11.2.6 to address a bug that causes apps like Messages to crash on the iPhone and iPad due to an inability to render a specific character in the Indian language Telugu. When sent, received, or input into Messages, Safari, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and more, the Telugu character can cause the app to freeze up and become unresponsive.
In Messages, for example, receiving the character can freeze up the entire Messages app on all of a person's Mac and iOS devices. The Messages app then refuses to function properly until the offending character is removed by deleting the conversation with the person who sent it. Apple's release notes are below:Apple fixed the bug in iOS 11.3 and macOS 10.13.4, but those updates are still in beta testing and won't be released until the spring. Apple last week promised a minor update to fix the bug in the meantime.
Article Link: Apple Releases iOS 11.2.6 With Fix for Telugu Character Bug That Causes iOS Devices to Crash
There is no such thing. There is however your problem of not restoring your iphone.
Jeez.... Can’t believe people are complaining about an update that stops your phone being less functional or at most, refuse to boot. It barely took 5 mins with just about 40 MB data. 
I asked one of my Telugu friends what it means and he said something ‘to know’ or ‘knowledge’ or ‘have knowledge of/about’.
This has just blown way out of proportion considering only 6% of Indians speak Telugu and even in Telugu, this character is barely spoken unless you’re chanting/speaking Sanskrit for some rituals and prayers. It isn’t used in common language. Also, most Telugu users rather write in English on their phones as it is a chore to get all the characters correct in one go while typing.
I asked one of my Telugu friends what it means and he said something ‘to know’ or ‘knowledge’ or ‘have knowledge of/about’.
This has just blown way out of proportion considering only 6% of Indians speak Telugu and even in Telugu, this character is barely spoken unless you’re chanting/speaking Sanskrit for some rituals and prayers. It isn’t used in common language. Also, most Telugu users rather write in English on their phones as it is a chore to get all the characters correct in one go while typing.
It sounds like you also are not a software engineer. There is no excuse for a bug like this to CRASH THE ENTIRE SYSTEM. Luckily, I'm still running iOS 6 and was unaffected.
Not updating is to some degree not wanting to accept the fact that all software contains many (often minor) bugs.
The outrage witchhunt is blowing out of proportion. But if they put in a new throttling mechanism in those 15 minutes... then please raise all hell.
What I am saying is that this is not simply a bug, it is a horrible system architecture flaw.
A bug in the font renderer should NEVER be able to take down the entire system. This is just completely nuts
There is no junk. It has always been this way on my 6S Plus, 7 Plus and now X.
Have you tried all of them?
(Obviously, nobody ever tried all of them on Apple's products, at least not until a few days ago.)
Satya Nadella is born in the Telugu-speaking heartland. Now thats food for thought... and conspiracies!
It is not uncommon for tech lover own multiple phone at same time.
I have own every generation of iPhone from iPhone 4S until iPhone 6S... every generation of iPads excluding iPad Pro 10.5 (I will buy that when next update along with 12.9). I also own more than 20 Android devices. I love try out them and see what good and bad about each OEMs. It is fun.
With the all extra cash saved. I can go buy more devices or using for travel with my wife.
From all the experiment I have done, I probably will stop buying gadgets sometime. I concluded that currently midrange Android phone is sufficient enough for everyday usage and it is stable enough as daily driver. Android is not like some one described here as unstable malware fasted OS. It is quite stable, secure and feature rich. I won’t buy any iPhone, especially 300 Android One devices can do everything i need and probably most people need.
No it's not, more like someone - with a key you already gave to them - coming into your garage to fix your car or at least waiting at the door for you to let them in.
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Good one, I've never seen so much whining about bug fixes.Lol, a fox does that to our back porch almost every night in the spring and summer. So it amuses me that I can actually say from experience, by no means is your scenario even remotely comparable to timely and needed updates. Yes it’s a pain in the tail sometimes, but I also own Android phones and it’s much worse when you want an update and have to wait...and wait...and wait.
I don't understand how in 2018 it is possible for an app running on an operating system to crash the operating system.
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Look at MS of the past. Apple really is the new Microsoft.
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Well if you want to use that analogy....
It's more like to person (that i never gave a key to) standing outside my garage waiting for me to get home every day, then jumping out the bushes startling me and demanding very harshly that the be allowed in to fix my car. When I tell them to get lost they keep screaming at me and banging on my door. Then when I don't let them in, they come back the next day to repeat it all over again.
You don't have to use it yourself in order to crash. All it takes is for someone to send you a message with this character. You won't be able to open the messages app anymore.
Rumor has it that when you decipher the character, it reads, 'Android rules'. The iOS fix changes the word 'Android' to 'Apple'.
Is your Bluetooth poor as well? If so it’s likely you need to replace your GPS/Bluetooth antenna. It’s a relatively easy fix.
