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Apple Working on Fix for Text Message Bug

May 29, 2015

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"The bug appears to be in the way iOS 8 handles the display of notifications that contain Arabic characters, and for some reason a certain string of them causes devices to choke on the data and restart immediately. It was first discovered by users on Reddit, who also report that the fatal character string crashes the phone whether it appears through notifications for Twitter, WhatsApp and any other apps that send received messages to your notifications.

"We are aware of an iMessage issue caused by a specific series of unicode characters and we will make a fix available in a software update," an Apple spokesperson said Wednesday in a statement to CNBC."

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