If you read iDevice.ro during this day, then you know that an iPhone can be restarted and the Messages application blocked with a text message sent with malicious code by a hacker. The problem is presented as a major one and it could be, if someone started sending mass SMS or iMessages to users, but this has not happened and will not happen, despite the hysteria of some .
Apple has confirmed the bug and probably iOS 8.3.1 will solve it, but in the meantime there is a method by which you can protect yourself from restarting an iPhone or an iPad tablet when a message with that text is sent to you. You cannot prevent the blocking of the Messages application when receiving that text, but you can bring it back to life by sending a message with Siri or by sending a picture.
How to prevent your iPhone from restarting with a text message
As I told you in the morning, restarting an iPhone with a text message is only possible if we have activated the option to see the entire received messages on the lock screen, LockScreen. If this option is disabled and in the lock screen, LockScreen, we only see a notification by which we are only notified that we have a new message, the bug is useless.
To prevent the full display of messages in the LockScreen, the lock screen, you must follow the steps below:
- Access the Settings application, Configurations.
- Go to the Notifications menu.
- Select the Messages application.
- Now you have two options:
- the first is based on the complete deactivation of notifications on the lock screen by deactivating the Show on lock screen option
- the second only prevents previews from being displayed by activating the Show previews option.
Regardless of the option chosen, you will no longer be affected by any message sent by hackers, but here we are only talking about restarting the terminals, because blocking the Messages application will still be possible. For this latter problem, there will be a solution only when the Apple company offers it.
