The black dot could be substituted for any other emoji and still work, he added. "The black spot itself almost certainly isn't the cause of your phone's doom," Scott explained.

Instead, a thousands-character-long string of invisible Unicode text, which accompanies the dot, does the damage. The text is too much for the Messages app to handle, rendering it unusable ...

A new iMessage bug involving a string of text and the black dot emoji ( ⚫️) can overload iMessage if sent to your iPhone. The bug was spotted by YouTuber EverythingApplePro, who frames it as a ...