The self-proclaimed “hacker” and “web security” researcher specifically found that typing two quotation marks followed by two colons — “”:: — into the Settings App’s search bar will total Springboard, the Apple mobile user interface, Techcrunch reported .
“Apparently, you can crash your iPhone Springboard pretty easily,” the Mastodon researcher wrote. Shutterstock
When the digital wizards at PCMag tried this , the screen went black, then lingered with an iPhone loading screen for a few seconds, before relaunching a locked home screen.
This crash will also occur if the user swipes all the way to the right on their home screen and types these characters into the App Library search bar, experts found.
Fortunately, this literal code black does not appear to be a “security bug,” according to Ryan Stortz, an iOS security researcher who analyzed the glitch.
This killer hack is just the latest in a long line of these digital die-roglyphics over the years.
The latter bug affected most messaging apps, including iMessage, WhatsApp, Gmail, Outlook for iOS, and Facebook Messenger.
Most recently, in 2020, users could trigger a crash by typing a set of characters written in the Sindhi language combined with the emoji for the Italian flag.
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