Type a particular string of characters into an iMessage and send it to someone else, and strange things could happen. We’ve seen these accidental discoveries time and time again in the past when users found character combinations that would render an iPhone useless. Apple is typically quick to patch these bugs and has done it again, this time with an issue that Google researchers discovered. Received in iMessage, a specific set of characters can do the unthinkable to your iPhone, and that is to brick it, locking you out of everything on it. The only fix is a factory reset and there’s no way to recover lost data that wasn’t backed up.
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Google found a crazy iMessage bug that bricks iPhones, but you’re probably safe originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 5 Jul 2019 at 15:00:28 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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