In the article linked, there is a symbol that, if sent via SMS or WhatsApp, will crash any outdated iPhone and cause dozens of Mac applications, including native ones, to crash. What’s worse, you can no longer access the message history for this user until you update, as the crash will occur every time you try to open the history.
This symbol causes any of the three browsers on my Mac to crash. Just paste it from the clipboard into the browser’s address bar, and without even pressing enter, the whole application crashes. This happens with Safari, Google Chrome, and Opera.
TechCrunch reports that this “symbol of death” causes Mail, Twitter, Messages, Slack, Instagram, and Facebook to crash. “While it initially appeared that the Chrome browser for Mac was unaffected and could safely display the symbol, it later crashed Chrome and the software would not reopen without crashing until uninstalled and reinstalled.”
https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/15/iphone-text-bomb-ios-mac-crash-apple/
Additionally, Facebook automatically marks any post containing this symbol as spam and deletes the entire text. I already did this about five minutes ago, and now, I am rewriting everything from scratch.
Even the Apple Watch crashes. So, update everything you have as soon as possible.
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/919343/iPhone-Text-Message-Crash-WhatsApp
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