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.

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.

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.

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