Be careful when entering this on your iPhone, it may damage it.

iOS is one of the most secure operating systems for smartphones. At the same time, it is one of the most stable. However, it is not without errors or small bugs that users discover by accident and which can even cause your iPhone stops working for a few momentsThis is a case of a bug that was recently discovered by several users. Although it is not something serious as it does not damage your iPhone completely, it can be a bit annoying.

Apparently, when you type a series of certain characters in two sections of iOS, the iPhone can briefly freeze or even reboot and return to the home screen. Specifically, users claim that this bug is triggered when you scroll through all the home screens of your iPhone and access the App Library, and then enter the following characters in the search bar: “”::.

This glitch we are repeating does not lock your iPhone completely, but only for a few seconds and forces you to quickly return to the home screen. works on both iOS 17 and iOS 18, As we saw in Hypertext. Also, it works if you type it in the system settings search bar. And interestingly, it also works if you type any character between two double quotes and a colon.

This is not the first time a similar bug has appeared on the iPhone.

It is important to note that This is not a security flaw. so entering these characters into the search bar of your iPhone settings will do nothing but simply redirect you to the home screen. In any case, this is not the first time that a bug of this kind has appeared in iOS.

In fact, some time ago, an iPhone could be locked if it wrote a certain message in Sindhi, native language of Pakistan. In this case, the blocking was permanent, but there was a simple solution: reboot the device. However, this error also did not create any security or privacy issues for users.

In this case, we don’t know if Apple will fix the bug in the next update now that users have discovered it.