Apple: When a simple video crashes the iPhone in less than five seconds

Apple: When a simple video crashes the iPhone in less than five seconds

BUG The sequence in MP4 format slows phones until they freeze but does not cause any other damage ...

The iPhone is at the mercy of a small video showing a masculine silhouette, lasting just five seconds and weighing 528 Ko. A featherweight that generates heavy consequences, since every time it is played, it causes the Apple phones. A malfunction observed regardless of the version of the operating system (from iOS 5).

Experts who plan on this "crash" have for the moment given no explanation. Remains this video in MP4 format, hosted on the Russian Facebook VKontakte, which makes slow the device a few seconds until the "freeze," note 01Net. There is no need to try anything on specialist websites and Internet users, since the terminal no longer responds to orders.

To find the use of your iPhone, you just have to restart it

The only way to avoid the "crash" of his device is not to open the small video widely shared on social networks. If, however, you have not been able to prevent you from opening it, to find again the use of your iPhone, it is enough to force it to restart. Press the Home button and the Power button for the "old" models or the Home button and the Low Volume button for the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus "specifies 01Net.

If for now Apple has not reacted, it should soon provide a fix. In 2015, the American giant had put a few days to settle the consequences of SMS trapped that caused the iPhone to crash.