Earlier this week, an iOS developer discovered that a malicious link texted to iPhones, iPads and Macs can cause freezes and restarts by overloading Mac and iOS's text rendering engine with several megabytes of text, consisting mostly of Unicode cascading accent marks.
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ChaiOS “text bomb” can crash your iPhone, iPad or Mac with a single malicious link
A new type of malicious link that exploits an annoying bug in iOS and macOS can cause an unsuspecting user's iPhone, iPad, iPod touch or Mac to restart or freeze when received through the Messages app or opened in Safari.
PrivateMessage lets you lock individual text message bubbles with Touch ID
PrivateMessage is a new free jailbreak tweak by iOS developer Frozen Penguin that lets you lock individual message bubbles in the iPhone's stock Messages app with Touch ID.
Perfect for anyone with paranoia, this tweak can hide confidential messages from any text messaging conversation, regardless of the context or who you might be talking to.
Google Photos introduces iMessage app for easy sharing, drag and drop on iPad
If you use Google Photos for iPhone and iPad, sharing your photos and videos just became a whole lot easier with the official iMessage app now available as part of the most recent update.
Video: hands-on with Apple Pay Cash
iOS 11.2 and watchOS 4.2 are mostly bug-fix updates, but with one big new feature: the inclusion of Apple Pay Cash, an easy way to pay and request money from friends using your iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch.
Three ways to share YouTube videos through iMessage
You have three ways to share YouTube clips in iOS, each with its own pros and cons. In this quick post, iDownloadBlog explores each of the share methods at your disposal.
Apple employees testing Apple Pay Cash internally with iOS 11.1
Select Apple employees appear to be testing the company's upcoming person-to-person money transfer service with iOS 11.1, which is not available publicly at this time.
Apple Pay Cash could launch in late October
Apple Pay Cash could arrive in late October, according to a footnote at the bottom of the Apple Watch Series 1 webpage on Apple's website, as first discovered by 9to5Mac.
Apple Pay Cash coming later this fall with an update to iOS 11 and watchOS 4
Apple Pay Cash, a virtual card that will hold the funds you receive from friends and family through the Cupertino company's new peer-to-peer money transfer service in iOS 11, will be available later this fall as an update to iOS 11 and watchOS 4.
RedFailedMessages makes it easier to discern when a message fails to send
It’s never a good sight when a text fails to send in the Messages app, but sometimes the “failed message” alert isn’t as eye-catching as we want it to be, at times resulting in forgotten failed messages that leave the recipient hanging for hours.
A new free jailbreak tweak dubbed RedFailedMessages by iOS developer NeinZedd9 has the goal of making it easier to discern between successful and failed messages by turning the entire chat bubble of a failed message red.
SMSNoLinkOpen prevents you from opening Messages app links with just a tap
Sometimes people send you links to websites in the Messages app, and while most are legitimate, you might also end up with spammers sending you malicious links.
You can never be too careful with a jailbroken iPhone, and a new free jailbreak tweak called SMSNoLinkOpen by iOS developer CydiaGeek prevents you from launching links via the Messages app with just a tap.
100+ new features in macOS High Sierra
Say hello to macOS High Sierra, Apple's newest operating system update for Macs. Whether you're on an iMac or one of the Touch Bar-outfitted MacBook Pro models, there is a lot to love in this latest release of Apple's desktop operating system.