This Video Crashes an iPhone Completely, Requires Hard Reset to Fix

A new video has surfaced online that crashes an iPhone completely, requiring a difficult reset to fix things in one case once again.

Who Would've Thought a Video Would Crash an iPhone

In the past we have seen a bunch of instances where an iPhone or iPad completely gives up the ghost after visiting a particular link via Safari. Simply it never occurred to the states a video would be able to do the same, crippling an iPhone completely.

Every bit showcased in a video by EverythingApplePro on YouTube, the video link, in one case visited, will tedious down your iPhone, before eventually freezing completely. Check out the video below and see for yourself how it works.

Every bit showcased by EverythingApplePro above, your iPhone will kickoff ho-hum downwards, after which information technology will completely freeze. Even if y'all press the Home button or Sleep / Wake button, nada will happen at all. It feels equally though your smartphone has suffered a severe panic attack. But a quick difficult reset will become things dorsum to normal. And in case. you're wondering - a hard reset will not alter annihilation on your device. Information technology will only reboot it forcefully so that you tin can use it normally once again.

If you take an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus, the steps for hard resetting are slightly different and y'all tin can check them out right here. Older device owners can bank check out the tutorial posted here. For obvious reasons, we won't be linking to the video at all, but you tin observe it elsewhere if you practise a little inquiry on your own.

It's interesting why this phenomenon is happening in the first identify and information technology affects devices all the mode back to iOS five, along with the latest iOS 10 release. It's a good idea to know how you lot can hard reset your iPhone simply in instance your friends decide to become berserk in their pranking game and send you the prune over.

Although this little clip will freeze your smartphone to a complete halt, merely evidently it poses no security hazard, for the time being. It's only absolutely annoying that your device volition completely dull down, eventually freezing, forcing you to hard reset. There's no way effectually this problem at all. You have to get through the misery once you come across the small clip.

Hopefully Apple will investigate the upshot and push out a fix promptly for users around the globe. Till so, yous now have a new affair at hand to troll iPhone users.