Latest iOS 11 bug crashes devices sent Indian-language character [u]
A bug in iOS 11 is causing devices sent a particular character in Messages to crash, and/or disabling some third-party messaging and email apps, but Apple has already fixed the problem in the latest round of iOS, macOS, and watchOS betas.
The character is in India's Telugu language, and if received through Messages will not only cause the iOS Springboard to crash but prevent Messages from opening again until another person sends a benign message, at which point it should be possible to delete the offending thread, The Verge noted. The glitch was originally discovered by the Italian-language site Mobile World.
Affected third-party apps include Gmail, Outlook, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger. It can potentially be harder to remove contaminated messaging threads, depending on the software.
At the same time, some other messaging apps like Skype and Telegram seem to be immune. The bug is also absent from the iOS 11.3 beta, suggesting that Apple might be aware of the problem and have a fix.
Given the severity of the issue, the company could be forced to push out an emergency point release -- presumably iOS 11.2.6 -- ahead of time.
Update: The glitch also appears to affect the Apple Watch and Macs, crashing native macOS apps such as Safari and the Mac App Store.
The character is in India's Telugu language, and if received through Messages will not only cause the iOS Springboard to crash but prevent Messages from opening again until another person sends a benign message, at which point it should be possible to delete the offending thread, The Verge noted. The glitch was originally discovered by the Italian-language site Mobile World.
Another iOS bug is crashing iPhones and disabling access to iMessage https://t.co/9do0xyz7k4 pic.twitter.com/15Ripq7PP8
-- Tom Warren (@tomwarren)
Affected third-party apps include Gmail, Outlook, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger. It can potentially be harder to remove contaminated messaging threads, depending on the software.
At the same time, some other messaging apps like Skype and Telegram seem to be immune. The bug is also absent from the iOS 11.3 beta, suggesting that Apple might be aware of the problem and have a fix.
Given the severity of the issue, the company could be forced to push out an emergency point release -- presumably iOS 11.2.6 -- ahead of time.
Update: The glitch also appears to affect the Apple Watch and Macs, crashing native macOS apps such as Safari and the Mac App Store.
Comments
This is because they are already trash.
i have seen bugs on Android phones that haven’t even been reported in forums.
Its just that when there is a bug on iOS or macOS it’s newsworthy.
And yet macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS are still vastly superior to Windows and Android in terms of security and stability. Oh, and I still ridicule Windows to this day because of that fact.
Whether or not the bug should ever have got through QA in the first place is another story.
But why aren’t Apple writing the software in such a way to prevent bugs in the APIs from bringing down the whole phone?
This sounds like some kind of memory overrun.
? How exactly?
To us sitting at home, sure it seems like a stupid bug that shouldn't have ever existed, but the large majority of us are not software engineers working for a Fortune 500 company with specific deadlines, multiple teams working around you that you have the collaborate with, etc. So its very easy for us (Armchair Software Engineers) to sit here and say well this shouldn't have ever happened or this never happen before. Sure it did...we just have short-term memories for certain things, or we forget about these things and only think about the good things that happened.
Glad to hear you are an optimist but Apple has let it's customers down the past couple of years regarding software too many times. I love the platform and bought only Apple products since 1994 but these days the software is embarrassing. Too many people here make excuses for Apple, the richest company in the world with all the resources needed to release near perfect software as they did before.
I don't care if these are vastly superior to the other I just want my device to work the way Apple intended. Stop making excuses and demand more from Apple.
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