A New iPhone Bug Crashes People's Phones with a Single Text Message.

A nasty new iPhone bug is making the rounds, and it involves a string of characters that, when sent in a message, crashes the recipient's phone.

It apparently affects only iPhone-to-iPhone communication. 

After receiving a text with the particular string of characters, messages will, reportedly, crash repeatedly. 

It can also force iPhones to reboot in some circumstances.

Here's the text that is reportedly causing the bug: effective. Power لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ 冗

After several attempts, we finally (accidentally) replicated the bug — crashing an iPhone from the lock-screen, and forcing it to reboot. 

Other journalists have reported that they've been unable to replicate it, but our experience shows it definitely works in some instances, though it's not clear why it doesn't happen every time.