Apple users meet, Again, in the face of a security flaw that can freeze your devices, simply with a blank message.
The security flaw is present on devices with the iOS operating system 10 or higher. iOS devices 9 or inferior are immune to it.
Luckily, the security flaw does not permanently damage the device.
Despite not having serious consequences for the mobile or tablet, can be very annoying, since once the blank message is received, the device freezes between 15 and 30 Seconds.
After that time, the device is recovered, although not without consequences: iPhone 7 it slows down and the status bar disappears until it is restarted. On the other hand, iPhone 5 and 6 makes it impossible to unlock the device if the message was received while it was locked.
Another method that abuses this security flaw is something more harmful., as it freezes the device for a longer period of time, being able to leave the device inoperative for minutes and can only be fixed by deleting the received message.
