Specifically, a video posted on YouTube channel vincedes3, and which you can watch in full at the end of the article, reveals that sending a large contact card via the Messages app (typically to iMessage contacts) causes it to freeze and then crash every time the user reattempts to open it.
According to this video, the bug affects any device running iOS 9 up to the latest betas of iOS 10.2.1, so the majority of iPhones out there are suffering from this issue.
We’ve already tried this on our iPhones and we can confirm that the glitch is indeed real and there’s no easy workaround to cope with it. The bug happens when a contact sends a malicious contact file that’s too large for the Messages app to read it correctly, causing it to freeze and then crash.
Once tapping the contact card, the Messages app goes back to the h… (read more)
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