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WHAT TEXT BOMBS HAVE HIT APPLE?

Apple's products have been plagued by so-called text bombs, which can crash and freeze devices through malicious messages.

The ChaiOS hack, revealed in January 2018, causes devices to crash and can delete all your messages, affects any device running iOS and Mac OS. 

The flaw was discovered by software developer Abraham Masri, based in Chicago, who shared a link which can be used to crash Apple's Message app on social media.

It does so through massively long strings of text information, which overloads the system.

Both ChaiOS and a bug discovered in February 2018 involving an Indian language character are similar to another called Effective Power.

This was first reported in May 2015.

Malicious messages containing the word 'Power' as well as Arabic and Marathi characters and the Chinese character meaning 'redundant', were sent out.

They also crashed the Messages app, and if an iOS user received the text while their handset was locked the bug would force their phone to reboot. 

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