iPhone Glitch: Remote Shutoff

So if you have had your iPhone shut off for no reason while you are using it, or being constantly spammed with messages with meaningless text and Unicode text, it's because people have found a way to remotely shut off your iPhone.

The instructions are to send a text message using any kind of phone, to an iMessage user with the following contents:

"effective.
Power
لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ
冗"

This should cause the recipient's device to restart, however effects may vary depending on small edits to the code, and may not even work at all.

Apple's response was that they "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."

Until that happens, the only thing that could possibly defend against this glitch is to disable banners, iMessage, or jailbreak your iPhone.

Though this prank only went viral a few days ago, this isn't anything new. A few years ago, there was a video game called Tony Hawk's Underground 2. This game was pretty much one of the most innovative games of that time, being able to private message, add friends, stuff that we now have in modern-era gaming. But there was one infamous glitch that ruined the game forever.

When you sent a message to somebody in this game, it limits the number of characters that you can use, much like any other message in console gaming. However, if you plugged a usb keyboard in your Playstation 2, you can bypass the character limit. If you send a message with a long line of brackets to someone, their Playstation 2 will freeze, and be forced to restart. They didn't even have to open the message, only receive it.

It's actually funny how this prank had migrated from a game 11 years old, to common smartphones which almost everybody uses.

Anyways, that's all I have for this post, I know I've been on hiatus for a while, will hopefully start to update this thing again!

-GameKiller