{"id":50600,"date":"2015-05-28T14:11:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T06:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=50600"},"modified":"2015-05-28T14:11:40","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T06:11:40","slug":"software-glitch-can-cause-iphones-to-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/05\/28\/software-glitch-can-cause-iphones-to-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Software glitch can cause iPhones to crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16062\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16062\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1200px-IPhone_5S_home_button.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16062\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1200px-IPhone_5S_home_button.png\" alt=\"Photo by Kelvinsong \/ Wikimedia Commons\" width=\"1200\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1200px-IPhone_5S_home_button.png 1200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1200px-IPhone_5S_home_button-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/1200px-IPhone_5S_home_button-1024x716.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Kelvinsong \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A newly-discovered glitch in Apple&#8217;s software can cause iPhones to mysteriously shut down when they receive a certain text message.<\/p>\n<p>Apple says it&#8217;s aware of the problem and is working on a fix. But some pranksters are sharing information about the glitch on social media and using it to crash other peoples&#8217; phones.<\/p>\n<p>The problem only occurs when the iPhone receives a message with a specific string of characters, including some Arabic characters, according to several tech blogs. When an iPhone isn&#8217;t being used, it typically shows a shortened version of the message on the phone&#8217;s lock screen. That shortened combination of characters apparently triggers the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Affected phones will restart automatically. Owners can prevent the problem by using phone settings to turn off the message &#8220;previews&#8221; feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly-discovered glitch in Apple&#8217;s software can cause iPhones to mysteriously shut down when they receive a certain text message. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":16062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-technology","mauthors-brandon-bailey","mauthors-the-associated-press1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}