Earlier today, we posted about the iOS bug that caused the Messages app to crash, potentially rebooting your iPhone.

Rene Ritchie, reporting for iMore:

The bug occurs when your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch (which runs a variant of iOS 8) receives a message containing the specific string of Unicode characters. Because the specific string can’t be rendered, the app crashes or the system restarts.

Rene posted this response from Apple:

We are aware of an iMessage issue caused by a specific series of unicode characters and we will make a fix available in a software update.

Interesting that the bug impacts the Apple Watch, too.