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Updated: This single text message is crashing people's iPhones – here's the fix

Update: An Apple spokesperson has now responded, saying: “We are aware of an iMessage issue caused by a specific series of unicode characters and we will make a fix available in a software update.” Original story: Apple’s iMessage platform has been subject to a new bug that shuts down your entire iPhone after receiving the message “effective. Power لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ 冗”. The second half is Arabic and

Updated: This single text message is crashing people's iPhones – here's the fix

Update: An Apple spokesperson has now responded, saying: “We are aware of an iMessage issue caused by a specific series of unicode characters and we will make a fix available in a software update.” Original story: Apple’s iMessage platform has been subject to a new bug that shuts down your entire iPhone after receiving the message “effective. Power لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ 冗”. The second half is Arabic and