The character above can also crash the entire iPhone if the symbol appears in a notification card or banner, forcing you to restart the phone. Apple told that iOS 11.3 fixes the problems. However, that’s a major release intended to bring over several new features, including a new battery health menu that lets you stop iPhone throttling. As such, the update won’t be released until this spring — though you can install developer and public beta versions to try it out early.
But Apple says it will release an intermediary update, a minor release that could take form as iOS 11.2.6 or something similar, to patch this particular bug. The Verge says that betas for other Apple operating systems, including macOS, tvOS, and watchOS, all fix the problem.
If you receive a text with a single character from the Indian language Telugu it can cause your iPhone to crash and prevent access to apps including Gmail and Facebook Messenger. Telugu Character iMessage Bug Causes iPhone To Crash. This Telugu character bug follows last month’s chaiOS bug, which caused the iPhone to crash when a particular link was sent to the device. Apple was able to fix this issue with iOS 11.2.5’s release, however the emergence of a similar bug just a month later doesn’t look good for Apple.