IPhone Owners Have Another Phone-Crashing Bug To Worry About

As the tech YouTuber explains, playing the glitchy.mp4 video in Safari on any iOS device will cause the system to significantly slow down and eventually freeze altogether.

The new link also has effects on all iOS versions from 5 to the latest 10.3 beta build.

The video link in question is apparently sourced from Sina-Weibo, a Chinese social network website. So the best thing to do if you want your Android device to stop crashing as often is essentially deleting Pokemon Go from your device all together.

No data appeared to be lost as a result of the bug, with the only result being the inconvenience of having to reset your phone.

Those on the iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, or any older iPhone should hold down the power and home buttons to bring up the Apple logo and force a reboot. The only way out is to perform a “soft” reboot by holding down the lock and home buttons, or the volume-down and home buttons, at the same time. For obvious reasons we won’t embed the video in the post, but you can trust us that it does work. But then that’s probably a good policy to follow at all times unless you trust the sender and the link they’re sending 100 percent. The video plays normally on iPhones, without any sign that anything is wrong. The Verge staff created a video demonstration of the bug showing exactly how it affects your phone. Instead, it takes between 15 and 30 seconds to start affecting your device, gradually rendering it unusable.

Apple has yet to comment on the matter or provide a fix, but the company should offer at least a temporary workaround soon enough.

A newly discovered bug allows a five-second video, which is believed to have some kind of memory leak, to crash any iPhone just a few seconds after you watch it on your device. There’s a chance that this is just a prank gone wrong.

I wouldn’t recommend searching out this video to watch. There’s an extra structure at the end of the file with no defined size. Even this video can be uploaded to any website and clicking the link alone can prompt auto play.