iMessaging bug surfaces which you can shut down an iPhone indirectly through iMessage

A user cbhunt14 on Reddit posted this. Do give it a try and post your comments below:

Copy and paste the following message (without quotes) into a new iMessage and send it to whoever you feel like tormenting:

“effective.

Power

لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ

冗”

It will immediately restart their iPhone. Have fun!

Here is how you can resolve the issue if you receive such a message

f you’ve received the code and can no longer get into the Messages app, here are some things to try:

• Ask Siri to reply to the person who sent you the text. According to this tip, Siri can access Messages even when you can’t because she lives inside the phone, so she can help you get around the block.

• Open your Photos app and send any picture to whoever messed up your phone. This works similarly to the first trick in that you’re kind of sneaking your way back into Messages. And if you’re looking for an appropriate picture to send, I recommend this one of Johnny Cash giving the finger. That way you’ll solve your problem and let the person know what you think of them all at the same time.

• During my testing, I discovered that I could open Messages, but it was stuck in the conversation I’d been using to send myself the code and would crash every time I tried to exit. You can get around this by pressing on holding on any individual bubble until the “Copy | More…” dialogue prompt comes up. Select “More,” and then hit “Delete All” at the top of the screen. This will purge all of the offending text and keep the app from crashing.

And here are some tips we’ve heard for keeping your phone from flipping out even if someone sends you the offending string:

• Disable text previews by going to

Settings > Notifications > Messages

and then turning off “Show Previews.” My phone still rebooted even if I did this, but some users have reported that it works.

• Tell your iPhone not to display Message notifications when it’s locked by going to Settings > Notifications > Messages and turning off “Show on Lock Screen.” When I did this, I got the notification sound, but I could wake up my phone without a restart.

• Because some users have reported the issue showing up when they try to pull up the text from the Notification Center, removing Messages from there might help. Go to Settings > Notifications > Messages > Show in Notification Center and select “None.”

The Unicode of Death last arose to facilitate trolling and random assholery back in 2013, when Russian hackers discovered a string of Arabic characters that caused similar problems in iPhones running iOS 6. Round 1 appeared just before Apple launched iOS 7, so it’s oddly appropriate that this new exploit would appear when we’re starting to hear about the upcoming iOS 9 upgrade.
Read more at http://www.cultofmac.com/323949/unicode-of-death-got-you-down-heres-how-to-fix-it/#bV5Mg0VqedCK23pj.99