Beware of the iOS "Text Bombs" on Social Media That'll Your Apps

Yesterday we had reported near a Unicode symbol bug that could crash iOS and Mac apps if/when a user tries to view the character. Yeah, we all knew what was going to happen, right? While some people may have sent the symbol to their friends in private chat to annoy them, other take opted to take a different arroyo to bomb the symbol across the social media.

A bunch of Twitter users have started tweeting the symbols out over the last day. The tweets read, "read this to log off instantly" and "retweet this to crash anyone using an Apple device," etc. Though these users don't have a lot of followers, it is likely to spread across social media like a wildfire.

Sadly, there'due south not a lot that you can do virtually information technology. For example, if the symbol shows up in your "@ replies" or in the handle of someone who likes one of your tweets, and then y'all're done. From what information technology looks like the only style to go the app working once again is to reinstall information technology from scratch.

In improver to that, a Mozilla Engineer Manish Goregaoka suggests that that the telescopic of the Unicode bug could be broader than the 2 symbols nosotros've uncovered then far. Obviously, this bug seemed to occur for whatsoever pair of Telugu consonants with a vowel.

As of at present, the trolling seems to be on Twitter only. Every bit it appears, both Facebook and Reddit have taken steps to forbid the fallout from the Unicode bug. According to The Guardian, Apple is working on a patch too; however, in that location is no ETA for the update.

Source: https://beebom.com/ios-text-bombs-app-crash/

Posted by: osborneapocumpeat.blogspot.com

Share this post