Every so often, a bizarre link or piece of text surfaces that, when sent via iOS or macOS, will cause noticeable issues to the recipient’s device. Today, the latest form of this has emerged in what’s being referred to as “chaiOS.” It’s a basic GitHub link on the surface, but it crashes Messages on both macOS and iOS…

The issue was first discovered by Twitter user Abraham Masri, who says the link has a host of effects on macOS and iOS, including freezing, resprings, battery issues, and more.

Restart your Android phone. Restarting your Android phone clears RAM and temporary. Please try the steps below. Please check after each step to see if the Messages app starts opening. See this article, if the Messages app crashes or freezes. Force Messages to quit. Let us try this first. To do this: Press these keys together: Option, Command, and Esc (Escape). Alternatively, you can click the Apple menu and then select Force.

We tested the chaiOS bug and had mixed results. In some instances, sending the link would cause both the sender and recipient’s device to respiring or cause the Messages app to instantly freeze and crash. Furthermore, reentering the thread would cause the Messages app to crash again and again, making the only viable solution to regain access to that thread to delete it and start a new one.

In other cases, Safari would crash or display the spinning beach ball on macOS. We never experienced a full device respiring, but that’s not to say it’s not possible. Additionally, it sometimes caused dramatic lag in the Messages app and throughout iOS and macOS.

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Caches/com.apple.Messages Leave the Library folder open. Try Messages again. If it works now, stop here. Close the Library folder. Step 2 If you still have problems, quit Messages again. Go back to the Finder and move the following item from the open /Library/ folder to the Desktop: Messages (Note: you are not moving the Messages application.
'is crashing' is not enuf information to help you. If there's a crash, there is a detailed crash report, the purpose of which is to enable specific troubleshooting. Apple docs will teach you how to.

It’s unclear what exactly is causing this problem, but it harks back to the “effective power” bug that plagued iOS devices a few years ago. Since then, we’ve seen a few other similar issues.

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Issues like this generally are harmless and are mainly used for pranks on social media and in Messages. The ‘hack’ has been seen to work on the latest public versions of macOS and iOS, as well as select beta users. Excel template for panduit labels templates. Apple generally doesn’t rush to fix these types of issues as they pose no immediate risk to users other than a brief annoyance.

The link itself is available in the tweet embed below. In general, this “bug” is just a pain all around in Messages. It’ll cause your device to completely freeze, prevent Messages from opening at all, and much more. This is definitely an instance where you should proceed at your own risk.

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