How to prevent your device from a text message that could crash your iPhone

Owners of Apple's iPhone are facing a new crashing bug, which can be delivered by simply sending a text message. Like this one.  

effective. Power 
لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ 
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Ars Technica reports that the "CoreText" bug is caused a combination of ASCII and unicode characters, starting with the word "effective." Receiving the text causes the iPhone to crash.

To prevent yourself from falling victim to the bug, you can go into your system settings and turn off text message previews (Notifications>Messages>Show Previews). That will keep you from having an instant crash upon receiving the message normally, but some users have reported that using the WhatsApp for messaging could also trigger the bug. The reports also claim Mac OS X is vulnerable, but only by using the Terminal.

Apple is likely to release a patch for the bug in the next week or so. Previously, bugs have had effects like deleting documents and making the Touch ID unresponsive.