Be careful what you text: Tech-sperts are warning iPhone users that typing certain characters into their device will inevitably cause it to crash. “Do at your own risk,” warned Konstantin, a ...

Be careful what you text: Tech-sperts are warning iPhone users that typing certain characters into their device will inevitably cause it to crash. “Do at your own risk,” warned Konstantin, a ...

All you need to trigger the bug are just four characters. On Wednesday, a security researcher found that typing “”:: can cause the Apple mobile user interface, called Springboard, to crash.

Navigating the world of accented capital letters on Windows can feel like a digital puzzle. Many users struggle to type characters like À, É, or Ç when writing formal documents or emails.

Typing the characters "":: into that search bar will then cause the built-in Home Screen manager, SpringBoard, to crash. In the comments of the researcher's post, others noted that the fourth ...

On the upcoming iOS 18 and iOS 18.1 versions, the effect is slightly less severe. Typing the characters causes Spotlight Search to freeze for a brief moment, but it doesn’t crash the Springboard ...

Typing the characters "":: in three specific places on your iPhone crashes Springboard, the app that runs the home screen, which in turn crashes your home screen: ...

Huh. Shady Characters. Beware, iPhone users. There is — once again — a very silly bug in iOS that causes your device to crash when you type a string of seemingly random characters.

ZDNET verified that typing those characters into the Search bar in the Settings app on an iPhone running iOS 17 does crash Springboard.

On Wednesday, a security researcher on Mastodon revealed the existence of a bug in iOS that causes iPhones and iPads to crash when typing in a specific set of characters.