A worker checks an iPhone in a repair store in New York, February 17, 2016. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
Apple has released a patch for iOS to address a bug where an Indian language character, in Telugu, would crash iPhones and render messaging apps displaying said character inaccessible.
The bug discovered last week allowed trolls to send a specific character that will crash Apple’s iOS Springboard (the application that manages the home screen on iOS devices).
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