A string of invisible Unicode characters, disguised by a black dot emoji, can cause an iPhone's Messages app to crash and become unresponsive.

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A new Unicode text bug is being spread around today, popularised by a video by EverythingApplePro. ... check out this explanation by Tom Scott. Add 9to5Mac to your Google News feed.

What other common (or uncommon I suppose...) text encoding formats are there besides ASCII and Unicode.<BR><BR>I know that in ASCII the string 12345 would be stored as 3132333435. I've seen that ...

Reports indicate that when the specific block of text is sent in a text message to an iPhone, it locks up the message app and triggers iPhone restarts, lockouts from Messages, and Springboard crashes.

This is Apple’s second text bomb headache of the year. In January, software researcher Abraham Masri discovered an iOS glitch that allowed a specific URL to crash any iPhone it was texted to ...