Sooo this Iphone breaking bug..

[TonyTony]

Sat in the cinema and get a few messages, don't open any. Gets to the end of the movie pull my phone out and messages just crashes and won't open at all.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/27/...

Guessing some tt has sent me this message.

[TonyTony]

Teppic said:

There is supposedly a workaround until a software patch is released:

Go in to Settings, then the Notifications tab, Messages and then switch off the slider called "show on lock screen" and under "alert style when unlocked" choose "none."

While this will stop messages appearing on the lock screen it should, at least, stop your phone from rebooting.

Interestingly, though, I saw that fix on a couple of websites (Gizmodo, Lifehacker) but I now can't find it on their sites. It looks like they've pulled the story, so maybe the fix doesn't work. Still, there's no real harm in trying it.

That only works to stop it from crashing your phone if somebody sends it you, if it's already happened it doesn't have any affect.

But it is a good idea to do that now incase some idiot decides to send you the message, hopefully its fixed by tomorrow!

[TonyTony]

The way I still looked at messages was click a photo and then click message, click to send to the person who's message stream you want to see then remove the photo and the whole message stream will show. You can just text normally there but can't delete anything.

Edited by TonyTony on Thursday 28th May 12:13

[TonyTony]

Figured how to fix it if you got sent it, if your the person that sent it though I'm not sure if you can without deleting and restoring.

Find out who sent you it by doing what I put in the above post, then just send them any message the same way so the glitched message isn't the last thing on the message stream.

Then it will let you open your messages without crashing and quickly delete the whole message stream with the glitched message in it.

[TonyTony]

malks222 said:

this happened to my girlfriends phone on wednesday night, none of the work arounds/ fixes worked, so wiped and restored to its last back up.

then last night the same thing happened again!! the most annoying thing is she doesnt know who is sending the message. the message app icon shows a number '1' on it, showing one unread message, but she doesnt know who sent the message. if you 'swipe down' from the top of the screen and get notifications etc... it doesnt show as anyone has sent a message. its very annoying to happen 2 nights in a row.

You have to turn on screen alert and banner notifications off, that's what makes the phone crash.