This 'effective power' text will make your friend'
This 'effective power' text will make your friend's iPhone crash if you send it to them - here's how to protect your own phoneApple have warned about the 'effective. Power' text, which causes your phone to shut down, and has advised on how to safeguard against itThis is a surefire way to annoy all your friends- a bug in the Apple operating system means that if you send this text to your friends, it will reset their phone.
The string of characters are really specific, but if you copy and paste it into a text, it will turn their phone off.
Only the people who know the characters will be able to send it to their friends, and once they do, the phone will crash.
It only works if you send it to someone who also has an iPhone. It won't work if you or the recipient has a Windows or Android phone.
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effective. Power ?????????????????? ? ?h ? ? ? Send that to someone with an iPhone it turns their phone offBy Helena Horton
