Texters beware! There is now a weird iMessage virus that, if sent to your iPhone, will restart your beloved little box of magic tech and then repeatedly crash iMessage. It can also screw with your iPad and Apple Watch too!
Bahm BAHM BIIIIIAHIIIUUUM!
The text includes a specific series of non-roman characters and although Apple is aware of the problem, a fix won’t be available until the next software update.
All is not totally lost – the message doesn’t actually do any damage to your phone, apart from making it hard to use your iMessage app, and even that can be rectified by another text being sent to your phone – although it has to be from the person who sent you the evil text in the first place.
The brain trust over at Reddit have come up with a theory that the message works, perhaps, by confusing the phone so much as it tries to figure out how to display the text as a notification banner, that it just gives up and reboots. Apparently sending the message through other message apps that have display notifications leads to the phone rebooting as well.
If you think you have some frenemies or mortal enemies out there that might be planning on sending you the message, maybe take a preventative measure and switch your notifications off for iMessage and other message apps. Not proven to help, but can’t hurt.
Some other fixes making the rounds are:
Send yourself a message via Siri, the share sheet, or from your Mac, or send a photo via the Photos app which can allow you to access your message history and delete the conversation.
Let’s hope you and your mortal enemy can agree that your magic tech box iPhones are off limits!!
iMessage is an awesome way to send free text, photo, and video messages to friends who are using iOS 5 and above. Read receipts allow your friends to see whether you’ve viewed their message or not.
Now, we’re all good people around here, right, but sometimes there are circumstances when you don’t really want people to know if or when you read their messages.
If you don’t want your friends notified of when you have read their messages, go to Settings >Messages > Send Read Receipts > Off.
Confused as to how sometimes yours or others text messages show up in green and sometimes they show up in blue?
It’s ok! We got you. See, blue is for iMessages, green is for SMS messages.
This, in turn, means that the green messages are sent as a proper old fashioned SMS, but if there’s internet connection available over WiFi, your messages will be sent for free over those connections, otherwise known as iMessage. iMessages can also be sent over 3G if you have Data turned on.
iMessage works on iPhones, iPad and iPods, however it will only work between iDevices.
The world of text can be an intimidating and confusing one.
Tone, intent and, well, the ability to spell can all be lost in translation when considering the great communication tool that is texting.
Hence, welcome to the first part of our iPhone Tip Of The Day, texting edition. First up – timing!
You know, sometimes you just really need to know what time you sent that text to Billy to tell him that you really like his new Tricycle.
And maybe you weren’t paying attention when you sent it because your heart was racing too hard because what if Billy naturally understood that when you said you liked his Tricycle you really meant you want to hold hands? And now you might have sent him the message at the same time as Stupid Cathy from next door and we all know what Cathy likes.
Life can be hard.
But never fear, we’re here to help! To find out what time you sent a message swipe from right to left in the message stream and a time will appear next to each message.
Apple, iPhone, New Releases | iPhone-Antidote | 
May 28, 2015 6:29 pm | 
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