Cancel whatever you had planned for the day as not you can be a dick to all of your friends with an iPhone simply by sending a text message that will automatically turn off their phone.
A flaw in the phones design causes it to crash and reboot every time the characters this message is sent to it, as outlined here:
effective.
Power
لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ
冗Copy and paste ^^
Text that to somebody with a iPhone it makes it turn off and on ????— jeff (@leftoversketti) May 27, 2015
There does not appear to be any damage as a result of the message and, so far, the only way to prevent your phone from being shut off is to turn off text notifications.
This video shows the text in action:
Weird that this would be a thing and that someone would actually discover it, but I guess that is technology. Have fun pranking your friends. I will just be over her turning off my text notifications for a bit.
When ur mom telling u to get home from the party
effective.
Power
لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ
冗— Larissa (@larissamorgan_) May 27, 2015
https://twitter.com/RiSay88/status/603536611058548736
when my girl is on her phone but not texting me back
effective.
Power
لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ
冗— daddy marq ???? (@liluzimarq) May 27, 2015