A newly discovered bug in iOS 10 is wreaking havoc on iPhone owners by making Control Center more unstable than ever.
With just three taps, the bug allows anyone to crash an iPhone in seconds. Once the trick is executed, the only way to unfreeze an affected iPhone is with a hard reboot.
Here’s how to do the dirty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQqyX4h8I1I
To freeze an iPhone, swipe up from the bottom to bring up Control Center. From there simply tap on three of the control rows simultaneously. The iPhone will then freeze and either do an automatic reset or wait for you to do one.
The bug is pretty hard to trigger accidentally. Even if you’re intentionally trying to do it you may not be successful. My fat fingers couldn’t trip three buttons at once, but if you have tiny Donald Trump-size fingers, it should be no problem.
Some people who have fooled around with the bug claim it works on any iPhone running iOS 10.3.1 and above. We haven’t had a chance to test it yet on iPads but assume it should freeze those devices too.
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
9 responses to “iOS 10 bug lets you freeze any iPhone with 3 taps”
Wreaking havoc? Come on, man. This is something you have to intentionally do to your phone and won’t happen under normal use circumstances
Plus it just causes a short freeze and respring
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Seems to be fixed in latest beta. So enjoy while you can!
Nope, still works in latest Beta 4 for 10.3.2
It’s a short freeze and repring; nothing special…
Tried it on an iPhone 7 Plus and an iPad Mini 3 and it didn’t work.
Hey kiddies are you bored out of your skull? Now you can freeze your parent’s iPhone with these 3 easy steps.
Come Cult of Mac, you are better than this.
“Making Control Center more unstable than ever” indicates that it was unstable to begin with. How is it that I’ve missed the unstable Control Center fiasco? “Wreaking havoc on iPhone users” directly contradicts “The bug is pretty hard to trigger accidentally. Even if you’re intentionally trying to do it you may not be successful.” Slow day, Buster?
But what if your fingers are thin and floppy, like Donald Trump-type hair?
Or if you press your fat naked butt against the phone and scoot around on it all over the floor,
like a Donald Trump?
And what if your phone isn’t the latest model, but an old useless piece of shit,
like Donald Trump?