iPhone text message bug can crash Apple Watch, iPad and Mac too

Bug in Apple’s Messages that allows anyone to crash someone’s iPhone with a text can also affect an Apple Watch, iPad or MacThe bug that causes iPhones to crash when they receive a boobytrapped text message also affects the Apple Watch, iPads and Macs.
The crash is caused by a bug within a core system common to all of Apple’s devices that handles text. When presented with non-Latin characters in a specific sequence – including those from Arabic, Chinese and Marathi – the CoreText syste