iPhones Crash With Rainbow Emoji Message Prank

By Edwin Kee
iPhone 6S
Apple will be rolling out an additional diagnostic capability tool in the upcoming iOS 10.2 software update. This is to try to get information on the affected iPhone 6S phones and use it to improve the device's battery performance amid unexpected battery shutdown issue.  Karlis Dambrans via Flickr

The iPhone from Apple has long been touted to be very difficult to crash or to have it hacked, but this does not mean that it is fully exempt from any such threats. Far from it. In fact, it is one of the more stable devices out there, and most of the time, the only crashes would occur from within with a botched software update. It looks like there is a new way for the iPhone to crash now, in the form of a rainbow emoji message prank. This is one of the most unlikely of methods, and yet it is possible.

Those who have a lightness of heart are currently having a field time exploiting this particular bug in the iOS platform. How does your iPhone crash with the rainbow emoji message prank? The answer is pretty simple -- just send messages that are stuffed with

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