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Typing these four characters could crash your iPhone | TechCrunch
Submitted 4 months ago by Xatolos@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/21/typing-these-four-characters-could-crash-your-iphone/
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dsilverz@thelemmy.club 4 months ago
Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
This is not a kernel panic and associated reboot. It simply crashes the SpringBoard, which is kinda like the “desktop environment of iOS”. It’s responsible for the homescreen. It’s a normal userspace process, not related to the kernel at all.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Yeah, since the last character can be anything, it certainly seems JSON-related. If it wasn’t, SQL could be on the table (“”::<input> is how you convert types).
Good eye. I find it incredibly odd that JSON would be involved in any way here, but that does seem like a logical idea.
Prox@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“You won’t believe character #3!!!”
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“”::
TBi@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I thought this was a new hip smiley I didn’t know about until I read the article :)
androogee@midwest.social 4 months ago
Spiders kissing
“”:: ::“”
ramble81@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Confirmed it exists even in 18.1 Beta 2. Reloads faster than I can even time it though.
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s not just betas - it’s in the main release, too
ramble81@lemm.ee 4 months ago
My thought was the reverse. Figured it was in mainline and the betas haven’t fixed it. If it gets fixed, it’d probably be in the beta first.
randombullet@programming.dev 4 months ago
There are a few YouTube videos that end up rebooting android. Forgot which ones and I’m too scared to try to recreate it.
Matriks404@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Stuff likes this me think that modern technology is glued together random shit that somehow works, or at least as long as you are using your phone like a zoomer or a normie which only scrolls Facebook. The moment you do something that is not done by >90% of users, you will only encounter random fucking bugs and freezes (although these also happen when normally using an app, see YouTube Music in which it takes forever to load the library while offline completely making downloading songs completely useless).
I have a moderately new mid (mid-high?) range phone (from 2021) and it’s crazy how often software freezes or just glitches the fuck up, despite of running on a device that’s probably millions times faster than a computer used to launch people to the fucking moon. In no period of history the technology was so unresponsive as nowadays.
Mistic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I work in IT as PM, you’re pretty close.
Modern technology is glued together NOT random shit that somehow works.
Everything created has been built with a purpose, that’s why it’s not random. However, the longer you go on, the more rigid the architecture becomes, so you start creating workarounds, as doing otherwise takes too much time which you don’t have, because you have a dozen of other more important tasks at hand.
When you glue those solutions together, they work because they’ve been built to work in a specific use case. But it also becomes more convoluted every time, so you really need to dig to fix something you didn’t account for.
Then it becomes so rigid and so convoluted that to fix some issues properly, you’d have to rebuild everything, starting from architecture. And if you can’t make more workarounds to satisfy the demand? You do start all over again.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Yup, as hardware gets better, software gets more complex and things get missed. As a developer, I feel this 100%, we just don’t have time to really polish anything, so we do our best to ensure the most common paths through the software are reliable.
antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
iOS 18 Beta 7 it crashes and reloads back to search so fast it looks like your query is just erased. Band-aid fix maybe.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Inb4 someone screws their phone permanently
Lantern@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s just a respring, which can actually be useful in certain situations.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
“”: + anything in spotlight.
It crashes springboard and reloads in about half a second.
A_A@lemmy.world 4 months ago
it means you could type any of :
Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
For me
“”::was enough to crash it instantly. Rebooted in ~3 seconds.MrLLM@ani.social 4 months ago
For me only works in App Library (and settings)
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30p87@feddit.org 4 months ago
Or more than a minute on devices that are not the latest generation.