{"id":12812,"date":"2016-11-23T13:22:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T13:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=12812"},"modified":"2016-11-23T13:22:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T13:22:33","slug":"want-to-crash-someone-elses-iphone-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/want-to-crash-someone-elses-iphone-heres-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to crash someone else\u2019s iPhone? Here\u2019s how"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You thought your phone was more secure than Fort Knox? Think again<\/span><\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Reporter: Joseph Carey | Sub-editor: Jack Leslie<\/span><\/h4>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Apple\u2019s software is being called into question after it was discovered a five-second video would cause users iPhones to crash after playing the MP4 file. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Video\u2019s have emerged showing multiple devices opening the file, playing the file and watching the iPhone slow down and eventually become unusable without a hard reset.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This Video Will CRASH ANY iPhone!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B15nBZ7pjLs?start=260&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The videos in question show the video being sent across Apple\u2019s iMessage system before being clicked on and crashing the phone in use. The phone will work as normal after a hard reset which comes from holding down both the lock and home buttons until the Apple logo appears on the screen. For iPhone 7 users a hard reset will come from pressing the lock and volume down button. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">So far there are no long term consequences that have been reported from viewing the video file. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">This isn&#8217;t the first time that Apple\u2019s software has fallen on its face \u2014 earlier this year there were problems with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/1\/27\/10839758\/apple-safari-crash-search-suggestions\"><span class=\"s2\">browser Safari crashing randomly<\/span><\/a> on iPhones and Mac computers. Until there is a definite fix, be wary of any files you get sent via iMessage, you don&#8217;t want to get pranked!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You thought your phone was more secure than Fort Knox? Think again Reporter: Joseph Carey | Sub-editor: Jack Leslie Apple\u2019s software is being called into question after it was discovered a five-second video would cause&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,121],"tags":[530,3209,3898,6108],"class_list":["post-12812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-tech","tag-apple","tag-iphone","tag-mac","tag-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}