Google Confirms Apple iPhone Bricking iMessage Bomb

Have any of you experienced this?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/07/07/google-confirms-apple-iphone-bricking-imessage-bomb/

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…receiving this text bomb through iMessage creates a condition that survives a hard reset and causes the iPhone to be unusable from the moment it is unlocked. “The only way I could find to fix the phone is to reboot into recovery mode and do a restore,” Silvanovich said, continuing “this causes the data on the device to be lost though.”

Apple actually fixed the problem really quickly as part of the iOS 12.3 release on May 13.

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