Calling all iPhone users: you can breathe a sigh of relief.
Thursday night, Apple published a temporary fix to a strange bug that causes a user’s messaging app to unexpectedly quit after receiving a “specific series of unicode characters,” that appear to be a combination of symbols and arabic-language characters. If this happens to you, just follow these simple steps. (Yes, you’ll have to get Siri involved):
Apple plans to permanently fix the bug in an upcoming software update.
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