5-Second Video Reportedly Causing iPhones To Crash
CUPERTINO (CBS SF) – Apple iPhone owners are reporting that their devices are crashing after they click on a five-second video that is being circulated.
According to The Verge, users are being sent a link to a short .mp4 video of someone performing a magic trick. The file is apparently corrupt, and while the video plays normally in the iPhone's video player, the device begins to lock up and freeze several seconds later.
The bug reportedly affects devices running iOS 10.1 and beta copies of iOS 10.2.
If your device crashes because of this bug, the only way to recover is to perform a hard reset by pressing the power and home buttons at the same time.
A fix has not yet been announced.
Last year, some iPhone users reported their devices crashing after receiving a certain string of characters via text messages. The bug was quickly fixed by Apple through a software update.
Earlier this year, an image circulated online tricking iPhone users to change their device's time and date to January 1, 1970. The hoax led to devices becoming unstable.