THIS DEVILISHLY simple web address will CRASH any iPhone or iPad – and it'll play HAVOC with your Android device, too.
If someone sends you a link to crashsafari.com, you probably shouldn't open it on your iPhone or iPad.
The prank website overloads Apple's default browser with a self-generating text string in the address bar.
This can cause your iPhone or iPad to heat-up – as it desperately tries to handle the ever-growing code of the website.
After 20 seconds or so, your device will be forced to reboot. Although the iPhone can still be unlocked with Touch ID, which suggests it is a respring rather than a full reboot.
It's still incredibly annoying – and almost as frustrating as this iPhone reboot prank.
Android devices will significantly heat up as the default Chrome browser tries to handle the code.
If you're on an iPhone, definitely don't click on this link: https://t.co/P3l2TFV0IF don't say I didn't warn you. pic.twitter.com/lSTeBRhd6h
— Martim Lobao (@martimlobao) January 25, 2016If everyone could stop sending me the safari crash link that'd be fantastic
— Kaden Isaiah (@mccoy_kaden) January 25, 2016crashsafari[dot]com pic.twitter.com/M0Cii2MgZo
— Nathan Liu (@NathanJLiu) January 25, 2016
On the desktop side, the crashsafari.com website will cause Safari on a Mac to fail to respond. Chrome will also become bogged down and sluggish.
The news comes after a text message was discovered that could crash and reboot your iPhone.
Users have started to send the website URL to their friends, playing havoc with their devices.
Wow. One “Crash Safari” short-link has been clicked on more than one hundred thousand times… pic.twitter.com/JqotjPiN1j
— News from the Lab (@FSLabs) January 25, 2016
Link shorteners have also been employed to obscure the web address – as CrashSafari.com does give the game away somewhat.
One of these shortened URLs has been sent more than one hundred thousand times, according to data from Google.
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