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<font face="Arial">sometimes I run across articles like this:<br>
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-----Original Message----- From: Dr. Harshit Jaithwar <br>
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2015 2:37 AM <br>
To: viphone <br>
Subject: How to be safe from iOS flaw that crashes iPhone by a
single message <br>
<br>
Apple's iMessage platform has been subject of a new bug that shuts
<br>
down your entire iPhone after receiving a particular message. <br>
<br>
The message, whose second half is in Arabic, can send your phone
into <br>
a reboot no matter what task it is performing -- it's proved very
<br>
frustrating for <br>
some users and it's not certain what th<br>
e long term effects are. <br>
<br>
Here's the fix: head into your Settings app, then the
Notifications <br>
tab, Messages and then switch off the slider called "show on local
<br>
screen and under <br>
"alert style when unlocked" choose "none". <br>
<br>
It's a pretty simple fix but it means if you're sent any more
pesky <br>
iMessages you're not going to be sent into the reboot again. <br>
<br>
This is the text of the message <br>
<br>
Over and over <br>
<br>
A bug that means a specific string of text can completely crash <br>
iPhones has led people to take extreme measures to keep their
phones <br>
safe. <br>
<br>
A problem with the way that iOS handles notifications means that
if <br>
people are sent the code -- which includes strange words and
unusual <br>
symbols and Arabic <br>
characters -- their phone grinds to a halt and restarts itself,
before <br>
becoming unuseable. Apple has said that it is aware of the problem
and <br>
is working <br>
on a fix, but until then users have been forced to take the
problem <br>
into their own hands. <br>
<br>
The most dramatic way of avoiding the problem is to turn off <br>
notifications entirely for the Messages app. <br>
<br>
That is done by heading to Settings and choosing Notifications and
<br>
then Messages, and swiping the toggle button so that "Show on Lock
<br>
Screen" is off and <br>
the alert style when unlocked is set to "none". Messages will
still <br>
show up in the notification centre and as a small badge on the app
on <br>
the home screen, <br>
but won't be able to load up as banners and shut down the phone. <br>
<br>
The problem also seems to hit the Apple Watch. Turning off <br>
notifications in the same way seems to remedy that. <br>
<br>
An easier and less dramatic way of avoiding some of the chance of
it <br>
happening is to filter out unknown senders. That can be done from
the <br>
Messages options <br>
in the Settings app. <br>
<br>
Turning that setting on means that if a stranger sends a text, it
is <br>
sent into its own conversation and doesn't bring up an alert. That
<br>
means that people <br>
who aren't in your contact book won't be able to make the bug
happen -- <br>
you'll still get alerts from your friends, for better or for
worse. <br>
<br>
If the problem has already happened, it can be got around by
either <br>
sending a message to the person who you received the problem one
from, <br>
or sending yourself <br>
a text. But since the Messages app is broken by the bug, users
have to <br>
take a roundabout route to do either. <br>
<br>
You can either ask Siri to send a text, or do so from the share
sheets <br>
that can be found in most apps, such as Photos. It doesn't matter
<br>
what's said in <br>
the text, as long as it's sent to yourself or the offending
"effective <br>
power" message sender. <br>
<br>
Once that's done, the Messages app should come back to life and
you <br>
can head in and delete the conversation. <br>
<br>
Apple has said that it is aware of the problem and is working on a
fix. <br>
<br>
Hundreds of forum users are reporting the issue. JoeyTheBoey on
Reddit <br>
said, "I have an un jailbroken iPhone 6 and it resprings my phone,
but <br>
only if I'm <br>
not in the messages app, then it will show the message
notification <br>
badge when I get back in." <br>
<br>
Jjc123cj on Reddit said, "Don't test this on your iPhone 6! I sent
it <br>
to myself and now my messaging app crashes when I try to open it
):" <br>
<br>
Apple News on Twitter has spoken to Apple's senior engineers who <br>
admitted they know there is a problem and said that they are hard
at <br>
work trying to fix <br>
it. <br>
<br>
Sent from my iPhone <br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/29/2015 11:29 AM, Mario wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote cite="mid:556885D1.20604@hotmail.com" type="cite">Trisha,
press Control+g to switch DropBox's dialogues from a graphic mode
to a more manageable mode which is somewhere between graphics and
text mode. you might try issuing the shortcut right after
launching the installer. I don't know if the control+g has any
effect on the functionality of using Dropbox. if you run into
problems, let the list know.
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 5/25/2015 7:42 PM, Patricia Ebel via Njtechdiv wrote:
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Hello Gang,
<br>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
-----Original Message----- From: Dr. Harshit Jaithwar <br>
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2015 2:37 AM <br>
To: viphone <br>
Subject: How to be safe from iOS flaw that crashes iPhone by a
single message <br>
<br>
Apple's iMessage platform has been subject of a new bug that shuts <br>
down your entire iPhone after receiving a particular message. <br>
<br>
The message, whose second half is in Arabic, can send your phone
into <br>
a reboot no matter what task it is performing -- it's proved very <br>
frustrating for <br>
some users and it's not certain what the long term effects are. <br>
<br>
Here's the fix: head into your Settings app, then the Notifications
<br>
tab, Messages and then switch off the slider called "show on local <br>
screen and under <br>
"alert style when unlocked" choose "none". <br>
<br>
It's a pretty simple fix but it means if you're sent any more pesky
<br>
iMessages you're not going to be sent into the reboot again. <br>
<br>
This is the text of the message <br>
<br>
Over and over <br>
<br>
A bug that means a specific string of text can completely crash <br>
iPhones has led people to take extreme measures to keep their phones
<br>
safe. <br>
<br>
A problem with the way that iOS handles notifications means that if
<br>
people are sent the code -- which includes strange words and unusual
<br>
symbols and Arabic <br>
characters -- their phone grinds to a halt and restarts itself,
before <br>
becoming unuseable. Apple has said that it is aware of the problem
and <br>
is working <br>
on a fix, but until then users have been forced to take the problem
<br>
into their own hands. <br>
<br>
The most dramatic way of avoiding the problem is to turn off <br>
notifications entirely for the Messages app. <br>
<br>
That is done by heading to Settings and choosing Notifications and <br>
then Messages, and swiping the toggle button so that "Show on Lock <br>
Screen" is off and <br>
the alert style when unlocked is set to "none". Messages will still
<br>
show up in the notification centre and as a small badge on the app
on <br>
the home screen, <br>
but won't be able to load up as banners and shut down the phone. <br>
<br>
The problem also seems to hit the Apple Watch. Turning off <br>
notifications in the same way seems to remedy that. <br>
<br>
An easier and less dramatic way of avoiding some of the chance of it
<br>
happening is to filter out unknown senders. That can be done from
the <br>
Messages options <br>
in the Settings app. <br>
<br>
Turning that setting on means that if a stranger sends a text, it is
<br>
sent into its own conversation and doesn't bring up an alert. That <br>
means that people <br>
who aren't in your contact book won't be able to make the bug happen
-- <br>
you'll still get alerts from your friends, for better or for worse.
<br>
<br>
If the problem has already happened, it can be got around by either
<br>
sending a message to the person who you received the problem one
from, <br>
or sending yourself <br>
a text. But since the Messages app is broken by the bug, users have
to <br>
take a roundabout route to do either. <br>
<br>
You can either ask Siri to send a text, or do so from the share
sheets <br>
that can be found in most apps, such as Photos. It doesn't matter <br>
what's said in <br>
the text, as long as it's sent to yourself or the offending
"effective <br>
power" message sender. <br>
<br>
Once that's done, the Messages app should come back to life and you
<br>
can head in and delete the conversation. <br>
<br>
Apple has said that it is aware of the problem and is working on a
fix. <br>
<br>
Hundreds of forum users are reporting the issue. JoeyTheBoey on
Reddit <br>
said, "I have an un jailbroken iPhone 6 and it resprings my phone,
but <br>
only if I'm <br>
not in the messages app, then it will show the message notification
<br>
badge when I get back in." <br>
<br>
Jjc123cj on Reddit said, "Don't test this on your iPhone 6! I sent
it <br>
to myself and now my messaging app crashes when I try to open it ):"
<br>
<br>
Apple News on Twitter has spoken to Apple's senior engineers who <br>
admitted they know there is a problem and said that they are hard at
<br>
work trying to fix <br>
it. <br>
<br>
Sent from my iPhone <br>
<br>
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The following information is important for all members of the
viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by
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