WARNING: This Short Video Will Crash Your iPhone

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Posted November 22, 2016 at 4:10pm by iClarified

There's an MP4 video clip being circulated around that will render your iPhone unresponsive.

The five second clip appears to have been discovered by reddit users yesterday. Once played on your iPhone, the device will start to become unresponsive after about 10 seconds and eventually lock up entirely. The home button and power button stop working and only a hard reset will bring your device back.

The Verge says it has tested the bug on multiple iPhones running the latest iOS 10.1 updates, and beta copies of iOS 10.2. We'd advise against playing an unknown videos until Apple has issued a software update to address the problem.

Take a look at the video below for a demonstration. Please follow iClarified on Twitter, Facebook, or RSS for updates.

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MaKI007 - November 25, 2016 at 12:29pm

For those who are new to iPhone, this is something which has already occured in 2008 ! Just Google for ZiPhone or Zibri, video which will crash iPhone.

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MAKI007 - November 25, 2016 at 12:30pm

I wouldn't be surprised if it is still same bug.

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Monica Lewinski - November 23, 2016 at 8:51am

its Hillary Clinton fault

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Ford40 - November 23, 2016 at 2:46am

Trump can order Cook to have it fixed.

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odedoo1 - November 22, 2016 at 4:56pm

Gone are the days that Apple meant safety, once Apple decided to open iOS 10 to 3rd party Apps like now Apps can use Siri or Apps like WhatsApp can use Apple Phone App and hotels and shops can use Apple Maps and much more, Apple opened themselves to viruses.

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gamerscul9870 - November 22, 2016 at 8:34pm

*security.

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tralfaz - November 22, 2016 at 4:24pm

"We'd advise against playing an unknown videos until Apple has issued a software update to address the problem. Take a look at the video below for a demonstration." What's wrong with this picture?

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gamerscul9870 - November 22, 2016 at 8:32pm

Maybe it's because this video here will show how the short video mentioned will actually crash your iPhone.

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afad8a7 - November 22, 2016 at 4:17pm

Awesome, so it is jail-breakable iOS for sure!!!

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odedoo1 - November 22, 2016 at 4:47pm

iOS 10 was jail broken many times already, the problem is that Apple pays $200,000 and some other companies including the government pay over 1.5 million so if you created a jailbreak would you give it for free???? I DON'T THINK SO !!!

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