Receiving this texo will crash for sure your iPhone – Le Figaro

Users of a US forum have managed to restart your iPhone by sending a string. This is a bug related to the character encoding.

This is a bug that will delight pirates Sunday. User forum Reddit US have found a way to restart an iPhone by sending a series of precise caratères

This vulnerability does not affect any iPhone. Older models who board of older versions of iOS (Apple’s operating system) seem spared.

The bug is not limited to iMessage, Apple’s mail application for Mac and iPhone. In the video above, this is a message sent by WhatsApp which is attempting to restart the iPhone. We have also succeeded in attempting to restart an iPhone 6 via a message sent on Twitter. The bug comes from smartphone notifications system unable to properly display this string, plant the phone restarts. Also, the bug may be triggered regardless of the application used, as long as it is able to send messages. After restarting the iPhone, the application that received the message becomes unusable. The problem can be solved by receiving a new message.

After doing some testing by changing different parts of the message, it appears that the words “effective” and “Power”, like the Pi symbol, have no effect: the iPhone restarts anyway without sending these characters. The transition between the terms in Arabic (للصبللصبرر) and other symbols (ॣ ॣ ॣ ॣ h) seems to be causing the bug. Just send an Arab character suvi other symbols (ر ॣ ॣ ॣ ॣ h) to crash the iPhone. If we remove all Arabic letters in the sent message, the iPhone will not boot.

A similar bug was already on iOS 6 and had been fixed in version 7 of the mobile operating system from Apple . How has he slipped back into iOS 8? This will be Apple to explain. Users have contacted the company’s customer service, who would be aware of the problem but has not yet expressed publicly on the subject.

Meanwhile, the bug feeds rumors and trolls . On Twitter, some even attribute it to the Islamic state because of the presence of Arabic characters in the message. And on YouTube videos that promise the solution to correct the problem end with squirrels dévorrant hazelnuts or iPhone soaked tequila.