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Oh my goodness, this is bad. This is really bad
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It's a crisis. It seriously is worse than I originally thought. This very special character, a text character that is crashing iMessage
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It's rendering iMessage useless. Mm-hmm. But, I told Will to look into it, like, see what this thing is all about
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And it turns out, it's way worse than that. On his MacBook, this character is also wreaking havoc
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Oh yeah. The notes app has already been crushed on the laptop
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His notes are gone because there was one note with this character in it
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That's all it takes. It's that one character. That's the reason we brought Will on because, like, I mean, he's been looking into this all morning
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We want to test it a few different ways, see how bad it is. He's got an Android phone here
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There's an Android phone over here. And then, of course, we have the iPhone 10. I'm going to paste the character into a text chat, Android to Android
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to make sure that it's iOS and OS X specific. So here we go My reception really bad here so Oh there we go You see on Android nothing happened It just perfectly fine But where things are about to get dicey that simple little character there is probably about to destroy the messaging app on the iPhone X
1:13
This is crazy. And who knows what other apps, after we discovered... Show Jack, show him
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Okay, the character is there. If he touches that character, highlights it... DEAD
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Show them what happens when you try to open notes. I mean, notes won't even open anymore
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iPhone 10 on the left. Your phone is on the right. I put my SIM card in it. This could be a disaster
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I should warn people. Don't do this, all right? This is a disaster
1:42
This is terrible. You could break someone's phone. Their livelihood. Let's just confirm that what's happening is what we've seen reported
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So here we go. I'm going to paste it in there. There it is. SIM card's in here now
1:54
Let's go ahead and send this over. You were telling me earlier this character
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some sort of foreign language Yeah it a character I think in India Taluga It a foreign language character So what happening right now if you in that country if that your keyboard
2:09
Everyone's bricked. Yeah. So once again, a little slow on the send here
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Why do I feel like as soon as I write test, it goes right away? I think it just takes a while
2:18
Oh, do we get it? Oh, boy. This is dangerous. Whoa! It rebooted
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But if I go in here, okay, I'm going to open. I'm gonna open it. Ready
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But what I don't understand is, it's not killing my messages. So the issue is because I wrote the test, it's okay
2:45
If the person that sent you the terrible message to begin with is willing to help you out
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they can send you a rescue message. so that when you launch your messages app
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it doesn't have to render that character in the subject. So before I do it look you see boom crash I can open messages Now rescue and then boom I can get into my messages now if I
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do open up the message from Will I'm still going to be messed dead
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but if I paste this on its own and if this comes through we're dead
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new message so it's there now dead instant messages are completely dead
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the messages app is crushed it's over The extent of this is more major than I had assumed
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This is some serious stuff right now. Apple, we hope you can get some engineers working overtime here
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This is a, that's a problem. Remember, your Uncle Lou told you, don't go do this
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Makes you realize how much we rely on technology. Yeah. These little bugs can freak you right out
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Just one simple character can just break everything. Willie, dude, thanks for your hard work on this and sacrificing your machine here
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I'll just be over here using my Pixel 2 XL. Android devices
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And I'm gonna text this to Jack though. No, I'm just kidding, don't do it
4:02
It was a joke, that was a joke
