Apple users across the world have reported about a text bug that’s crashing their message app and causing the iPhone to restart in some cases. The bug is known to make contact with your iPhone via a text message that you might receive as a iMessage or SMS. Macrumors reported that the corrupted message contains string of code with some Arabic writing.
Most people that are encountering the bug have an iPhone that runs on latest iOS 8.3 but it can also corrupt Apple users running an older version.
The best way to prevent your iPhone from this bug is to simply avoid opening the corrupt message if you receive it. Apple is working to fix the bug but in the meanwhile if you encounter the bug there are some effective solution that would bring your crashed message app to life. Here are some tricks that worked for some affected iPhone users.
- Simply sending a reply to the bugged message has worked for some people. In case you accidentally click and open the conversation string break the malicious bug buy sending a reply.
2. If you click on the corrupted message from a familiar number have your contact send you another message that will break the string.
3.To correct the problem by yourself you can try sending a message on your iPhone via Siri, notes or using other messaging app like WhatsApp.
4.Additionally, messaging a photo to own iPhone seems to have help users to get access to their message app where they can delete the message to kill the bug.