New iOS Bug Crashing iPhones Simply by Receiving a Text Message [Includes Fix]

[mrgraff]

Curious: Does the text actually mean anything in translation?

I get "For Sbllsberr" followed by the non-Arabic characters.

 

[cyprian.pl]

Anybody wondering how this was discovered?

 

[scoobydoo99]

you can give her a quick message like "Fix" that'll be sent to your iPhone to clear away the malicious message.

could I send "hello" also? what about "marklar"?

do we really need a suggestion for the content of a meaningless message?

 

[The Doctor11]

Doesn't seem to crash my iPhone? Is it because I have my banners set to not show the incoming text and just display "iMessage" or "Text Message" ?

Yes this is why.

 

[AlecZ]

Sent it to 4 different iPhones including one of our own and it didn't do jack. received the message, nothing happens. Even when selected focus on a different senders message thread, they would receive the incoming isis threat message and then nothing would happen.

doesn't seem to affect all iPhones. These 4 were running iOS 8.3, however.

Did they have banner message notifications enabled? The crash is related to the banner view.

 

[teknikal90]

The fix doesn't work!!!

 

[Millionaire2K]

I'm having an issue where people can't send me imessages only text messages. Also any imessage I send them it goes in a NEW text thread. If I send them a text it goes in the old long thread.

HELP!!! AHHH!

 

[r03dz]

The fix doesn't work!!!

Doesn't work for me either. I have tried all of the above solutions. iOS 8.4 iPhone 6. Anyone?

 

[Bako-MacAddict]

What was supposed to be a funny prank from me to my younger sister, resulted in a big family argument and my dad calling me an a--hole.

Oh man you just made me lol literally... #####

 

[MacintoshMan]

Fix not working. Oh no.

 

[elie.fares]

The string of Arabic letters are gibberish. How the hell did someone find this?

Either way, this isn't the first time iMessage crashes because of Arabic: http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/29/bu...-of-characters-to-crash-ios-6-os-x-10-8-apps/

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Curious: Does the text actually mean anything in translation?

No it doesn't.

 

[MacintoshMan]

ATTN: If you send this to multiple people do not forget who you sent it to. To get your phone back working you need to forward something via text to every conversation you sent it in

 

[r03dz]

ATTN: If you send this to multiple people do not forget who you sent it to. To get your phone back working you need to forward something via text to every conversation you sent it in

+1. This worked for me when everything else didn't. iOS 8.4

 

[Matthijs581]

Help!

Lol, just ****ed up a lot of phones of class mates and their family. They could Fix this by sending them self a message. But now my iPad won't open iMessage anymore and sending myself a message won't fix it! anyone has an idea on how to fix this?

 

[r03dz]

Lol, just ****ed up a lot of phones of class mates and their family. They could Fix this by sending them self a message. But now my iPad won't open iMessage anymore and sending myself a message won't fix it! anyone has an idea on how to fix this?

Read the post above you?

 

[Matthijs581]

Read the post above you?

I did but even that won't work.

 

[Millionaire2K]

I tried the fix above. However I can NOT send myself an imessage, it errors. I can send myself a text.

 

[Matthijs581]

ATTN: If you send this to multiple people do not forget who you sent it to. To get your phone back working you need to forward something via text to every conversation you sent it in

Thank you so much! This worked for me!

 

[perkedel]

According to a Twitter user who spoke to Apple support, Apple's engineers are aware of the problem and are working on a fix.

i wonder when that permanent fix is going to be out. i guess i better turn off message preview then.

 

[sn]

How do you turn off message previews?

 

[RosOne]

Crashing messages jokes incoming at Google IO tomorrow?

 

[badNameErr]

It's true!

I just texted the word "discoveryd" to a friend and his phone and Mac and Apple TV crashed.

 

[Woyzeck]

Curious: Does the text actually mean anything in translation?

System.exit(-1)

 

[rmatthewware]

Looks like the praetorians are at it again. Whatever you do, don't hit ctrl + alt + del.

 

[Rogifan]

Why would someone be silly enough to intentionally send this to see if it actually crashed their iOS device (or someone else's)? It's not like it's a common piece of text that anyone could run into. I don't get it.