Apple smartphones will stop working correctly if they are configured for a specific region. It is reported by the Bleeping Computer edition.
Journalists drew attention to the problem described by users of the official Apple forum. The owners of the iPhone said that if you set Beirut local time on your smartphone and select the capital of Lebanon in the device settings, a system failure will occur. After the specified setting, any attempt to set an alarm on the iPhone will end with the application crash.
According to the report, the first bug reports surfaced in January, following the release of iOS 14.4. Lebanese users of Apple smartphones were the first to discover a new way to disable the iPhone. As it turned out, the problem was not fixed in the next iOS version, numbered 14.4.1, which was released on March 8.
As a temporary measure, experts recommended reconfiguring the smartphone to another city or region. “When I moved my iPhone to [in the same time zone as Beirut] Cairo, the problem went away,” said one attendee to the Apple Support Forum.
Apple is aware of the existence of the error, but has not yet announced the timing of its fix. The Bleeping Computer editors sent a request to the company, but did not receive a prompt response.
In April 2020, smartphone users of the American company found a “text bomb” that can be used to turn off any iPhone. It consists of the Italian flag emoji and one of the symbols of the Sindhi language. If the owner of an iPhone or iPad opens this message on his device, the device may freeze and reboot.
