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Apple’s Spotlight Search and App Library can crash your iPhone with just a few characters

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Summary
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60% Informative

A security researcher found that typing these characters into Spotlight Search or App Library will crash your iPhone.

Typing these characters with iOS 18 and iOS 18.1 causes Spotlight Search to crash, but Springboard does not fully crash.

This is not a security issue and there’s “no evidence yet to suggest anyone other than an iOS device owner manually typing the characters could trigger this bug.

VR Score

43

Informative language

34

Neutral language

18

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

39

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

short-lived

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