Indian Character Bug Causing System Crashes is Fixed in iOS 11.3 and macOS 10.13.4

[thejadedmonkey]

You're obviously not a programmer nor have any experience with it.

I'm a programmer. Proper frameworks took care of these sorts of issues 20 years ago.

 

[ghostface147]

iOS 12 needs to be cleaned up big time. I'm glad they are taking the initiative to optimize and clean up in the next version with limited new features based upon what we have heard.

 

[ipooed]

Anytime it’s pasted in messages or Facebook messenger It cause a springboard crash, essentially eliminating the average iPhone user to “prank” a friend. Great way for your android friends to annoy you though lol.

 

[Brookzy]

You don't have much experience programming, do you?

Not saying some like this isn't possible, but it's likely already being done and more complicating factors arise. Errors like these are not always *ONE* character as the culprit. Can you try to think about how many combinations you can make with every character in every language?

Think about just how many words exist in the English language, plus all the non words people could type in error or just because they can. Now multiple that times every language.

You don't have much experience engaging people in a constructive way, do you?

The number is bigger than the number of particles in the universe.

And yet, somehow, someone finds it!

This can definitely be automated at an insanely rapid rate.

 

[actcyclist]

The article says it’s been fixed, but I don’t have a software update showing up yet?

 

[ersan191]

"Even worse, some users have found that if the character is displayed in an iOS notification, it can cause an entire iPhone or iPad to respring..." - from the article

Respring??? I didn't know iOS devices had springs. I have never witnessed any device from any company "respring"... wait a sec... I take it back. I had a slinky when I was a kid. It sprung all the time.

The home screen UI on iOS is caled SpringBoard, and when it restarts it is called respringing
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The article says it’s been fixed, but I don’t have a software update showing up yet?

Fixed in the newest beta is what they are referring to. Not available outside of beta yet.

 

[FrenchRoasted]

You're obviously not a programmer nor have any experience with it.

Seems like a valid observation to me. Not all of us are programming gods such as yourself. When it doesn't "just work", we have a right to comment about it.

 

[fireguy286]

Title of the Article is super Apple apologetic and very misleading at best, and deceptive at worst. 11.2.5 is the current released software. 11.3 is in development, which does the public, very very little. It's a major bug.

 

[Baymowe335]

Ok, so just tell the millions Indian speaking users of iOS, not to use the certain character(#You’reTextingWrong).
You’re obviously not a business owner.

Half my family is from Asia and speak Hindi and several other languages, so no, it doesn't impact them.

BTW, "Indian" is not a language so they can't be "Indian speaking" lol.
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You don't have much experience engaging people in a constructive way, do you?


And yet, somehow, someone finds it!

This can definitely be automated at an insanely rapid rate.

Keep digging your heels in more. Tell us in detail how it can be "automated."

 

[OldSchoolMacGuy]

Seems like a valid observation to me. Not all of us are programming gods such as yourself. When it doesn't "just work", we have a right to comment about it.

When was the last time Apple said "it just works". Might want to look into that.

 

[I7guy]

Would it really be that hard to have an automated QA system that rapidly simulates typing every system character to check for bugs? This must be the fifth or sixth time a bug like this has affected iOS.

I can’t imagine Apple not having automated regression testing and imagining the testing goes wide and deep. However, as deep and wide as the testing goes ordeal world usage is needed to really find all bugs; which is why these betas exist.

 

[Baymowe335]

Ok, so just tell the millions Indian speaking users of iOS, not to use the certain character(#You’reTextingWrong).
You’re obviously not a business owner.

BTW, I own a ton of businesses through shares, including AAPL. I have to have a 30,000 foot view of everything, not declare the entire QC process broken because of a character bug we don't fully understand.

 

[JeffyTheQuik]

Does anyone look at that first character, and think, "I know her..."

 

[AlexH]

So when is iOS 11.3 rolling out?

 

[mattburley7]

So when is iOS 11.3 rolling out?

probably end of march

 

[askep3]

So it's fixed in an OS version that's not released to the public. What about the 100's of millions of users not using beta software?

Another appalling QA blunder by Apple.

This guy

It’s not some exclusive version, they know about the bug and have fixed it, and it will be included in the next patch

 

[Mr.Blacky]

This indian character can't be very common, if this bug was discovered 5 month after the release of iOS 11.

 

[Vasilioskn]

Apple go home you’re drunk.

 

[citysnaps]

iOS QC becoming very sloppy, lately?

You're expecting 100% perfection with respect to obscure bugs?

Tell me...where else do you find that level of perfection with respect to complex software-driven tech devices?

 

[Mac-lover3]

Title of the Article is super Apple apologetic and very misleading at best, and deceptive at worst. 11.2.5 is the current released software. 11.3 is in development, which does the public, very very little. It's a major bug.

You clearly have no idea about what a “major” bug is. If it would be “major” if every social media would be all over it to complain.

 

[mostlydave]

It's headlines like this that make me question the reporting on this site. The news story is the bug, not that it's fixed by an unreleased beta. Is Apple paying for these positive headlines?

 

[bulbus]

If you consider there are 1000 languages and 1000 characters for each. There are only 1 million characters to deal with. When software is tested you don't type it in manually, you simulate a type in. The whole test would take hardly a minute to simulate the rendering and check for bugs.

Such a weird bug...

I'm not an apologist but how do you find these types of bugs? Would you have some massive server grade computer randomly send every single variation of characters in all languages all day long? It would be infinite right? You would have to type every word in every language and then start crossing over different alphabets in combination with each other?

Did bugs like this exist with iPhone (2g), the hailed "less sloppy" days of Apple?

 

[Naraxus]

What the hell is Craig Federighi getting paid for? iOS has been plagued with bugs lately.

 

[ignatius345]

Relax, 12.0 will take care of this kind of crap.

... and introduce new crap, if recent history is any indication.

 

[TheColtr]

What the hell is Craig Federighi getting paid for? iOS has been plagued with bugs lately.

Are you serious? This seems sarcastic. Craig is getting paid to oversee the software division which includes any and all software development. Whether it’s iOS 12,13,18,48, or software for a iPhone or refrigerator or a bed. That’s what he’s getting paid to do. Just because there have been bugs lately doesn’t mean there isn’t major development still happening. The current public release I’m sure isn’t Apples internal current release.