IPhone bug blamed on Marathi, Chinese and Arabic scripts

A bug in Apple’s message app that has been crashing iPhones and iPads, it turns out, is a language problem.

The glitch appeared in the way Apple’s iOS mobile operating system, which runs on the iPhone, iPad and iPod, rendered non-Latin script characters like Marathi, Arabic and Chinese, the British daily The Guardian said.

For the bug to strike, a specific string of text and symbols has to be sent within an iMessage or SMS.

The Guardian tried 50 times before it could replicate the crash. It found that when the text message was displayed by a banner alert or notification on the lockscreen, the system tried to abbreviate the text with an ellipsis. If the ellipsis was placed in the middle of a set of non- Latin script characters, it crashed the phone and then caused it to reboot.

Apple hasn’t found a fix yet.

“We are aware of an iMes-sage issue caused by a specific series of unicode characters and we will make a fix available in a software update,” a statement from an Apple spokesperson said.

To protect the iPhone or iPad, the Guardian suggested turning off banner notifications. If the bug has already struck, open the photos app and send a picture to the contact, which revives message app, allowing the “bugged” conversation to be deleted. also be given to countries participating in the qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. India’s campaign starts in Bangalore against Oman on June 11.

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