A new bug has been discovered in Apple's software that reportedly can crash your iPhone, Mac, and Apple Watch. Additionally, it can disable access to third party applications.The Italian site MobileWorld found that sending a single Indian language (Telugu) character to devices will cause the iOS Springboard to crash once received. Messages will no longer open. The only way to regain access is to have someone else send you a message then attempt to delete the thread that contained the bad character.
The error we are talking about presents an Indian character that, if received or simply pasted in a text field, can lead to freeze of applications or crashes of the entire operating system. The character in question is what you can see in the screenshot below (which we do not report verbatim to prevent it being used for malicious purposes). To be precise it is a character of the Telugu language, a Central-Southern Dravidian language spoken in India by about 70 million people (from about 5% of the Indian population therefore).
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