Apple's iMessage platform has been subject of a new bug that shuts down your entire iPhone after receiving a particular message.
The message, whose second half is in Arabic, Marathi or Chinese, can send your phone into a reboot no matter what task it is performing -- it's proved very frustrating for some users and it's not stated what the long term effects are.
Here's the fix: head into your Settings>>> Notifications tab>>> Messages and then switch off the slider called "show on local screen and under "alert style when unlocked" choose "none".
It's a pretty simple fix but it means if you're sent any more pesky iMessages you're not going to be sent into the reboot again.
This is the text of the message
Many people contacted Apple for some comment on the matter and the response suggested Apple can't see the problem on their end, but that's apparently not the case for many people who have taken to the internet to confirm the bug,.
Hundreds of forum users are reporting the issue. JoeyTheBoey on Reddit said, "I have an un jailbroken iPhone 6 and it resprings my phone, but only if I'm not in the messages app, then it will show the message notification badge when I get back in."
Jjc123cj on Reddit said, "Don't test this on your iPhone 6! I sent it to myself and now my messaging app crashes when I try to open it ):"
Apple News on Twitter has spoken to Apple's senior engineers who admitted they know there is a problem and said that they are hard at work trying to fix it.
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