iPhone 'prank' video crashes Apple smartphones
by Samuel Gibbs from on (#22HFJ)
New iPhone crash bug caused by a Vine-like Miaopai video locks up devices, rendering them useless without a forced reboot
A link to a video, which when watched slows down any iPhone until it crashes, is being used as the latest iPhone crash prank.
The video from the Sina Weibo-backed video-sharing app Miaopai plays normally in the iPhone's video player, but once the video is finished it can take up to a minute for the iPhone to lock up, requiring a forced reboot to recover it.
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