It seems like the “Effective Power” bug keeps making a comeback after a few weeks. Here’s a new Unicode symbol bug that plagues all devices running Apple’s operating systems.
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Effective power makes a comeback to iOS
The new Unicode bug crashes iOS devices whenever you try to open any message containing the Indian symbol “జ్ఞ‌ా”.
Apart from iPhones and iPads, Mac computers and Apple Watch are also affected.
Whenever text renderers such as TextField, Label, or TextView try to render this Unicode symbol, the entire system crashes.Â
Subsequently, your device goes all the way back to the lock screen without any way to get in. Your device gets stuck in a “crash loop” just like it gets stuck on a bootloop or a respring loop.
As far its compatibility goes, it works perfectly on all iOS 11-iOS 11.2.5 versions. Moreover, iOS 10 versions up till iOS 10.3.3 also came under the ambit.
Thankfully, newer versions such as iOS 11.3 beta builds are immune to this Unicode bug.
Surprisingly, this bug comes just weeks after Abraham Masri’s chaiOS bug that crashed a lot of iPhones. It clearly suggests Apple is yet to pull the plug on “Effective Power” bugs.
How to crash anyone’s iPhone with this bug
You can easily prank your friends or just target random Internet users for fun with this amazing new bug.
You can also download its XCode playground for testing purposes from this link. Open it in XCode or Atom text editor once you download it.
Just follow the steps given below and you are golden.
- Send the “జ్ఞ‌ా” symbol to anyone. For example, you could try sending a Twitter DM to the target user.
- The target user then opens the notification.
- iOS tries to render the buggy Unicode symbol and crashes.
- The target device boots back to the lock screen.
- Whenever the user tries to unlock his iPhone, it will try to read the notification and crash again.
How to fix affected devices
Fortunately, this bug isn’t as widespread because it went public just a few hours ago. However, if you were affected by it, you can try the following method to fix your iPhone.
- Open Camera and take a photo.
- View the photo you just took from the bottom-left corner.
- Press the All Photos button present in the top-right corner in the camera roll.
- It will then ask you to key in your passcode. Type your 6-digit passcode.
- Switch to Settings.
- Turn off notifications for Twitter or your Twitter client.
That’s how simple it really is! Your device will no longer crash. If this fix didn’t work for you, check this tutorial out.
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I know how to fix it if you haven’t updated ur iPhone yet and ur phone keeps on crashing I would really suggest you really update it to 11.3.1 or if you aren’t on that update just still update URL phone simple as that or follow the tutorial or scroll through the article to find how
This can be fixed easily through the Cydia patch.
జ్ఞ ా
I can’t even get to the lock screen! its just stuck on the apple screen buzzing every few seconds
Your device is in a bootloop. Follow the fix here.
జ్ఞ‌ాజ్ఞ‌ా
I just sent it to my friend and it crashed my own phone but now i cant text him it just crashes everytime how do i fix this
That’s karma
Phone is bricked … is there a way to fix this and not lose the data on the phone … (iPhone 8Plus is freze in Apple Logo and i cant turn it off)
Did you try the iCloud method?
Tried it but the phone isnt connected to the internet … it says “Pending”.
You must upgrade then. Do you want to jailbreak your device?
can I jailbreak it when it is bricked like this … i cant unlock the phone
No, you can’t.
So dude how can I fix the phone and not lose all the data on it ???
Try putting it in DFU mode if possible and then hard reset it. Alternatively, open iTunes, connect your device and click “Update”.
This also works on ios 10.1.1.. I had to manually erase the message from storage (i.e. filza) but no system crashes… only app crashes.
Thanks for your comment. It is confirmed to be working on iOS 10-11.2.5.
iOS 10-11.2.5 developer beta
My iPhone is in loop from 30 minutes 🙂
How can i fucking solve this?
Erase your device from Find my iPhone and restore from backup.
There is another way?
Yes, did you follow my new article?
No
Same here! Someone ant fix plz?
Follow my new tutorial.
CAN YOU STOP SHARING “HOW TO TUTORIAL” ????
You should share only preventive measures.
You can’t prevent that it happens to you. Get rid of all evil friends maybe.
Don’t buy an iPhone lol
How to send it ? When ever i copy on any app it just crashes ?
Send it from a PC.
Just C&P జ్ఞా