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Why would Auto-Correct kick in on incoming texts or on browser pages?

• blackflame7000 9y ago
  I read that it was related to text-boxes so I figured that could be a potentially hidden culprit. I haven't heard of web pages crashing due to embedded text but if so then I retract my hypothesis. 2nd Sentence of the article says text box but not sure what "other places" are: "Basically, if you put this string in any system text box (and other places), it crashes that process."
  • ghusbands 9y ago
    From the article's source article: "iMessages, [...] Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Gmail, and Outlook for iOS [...] can become disabled once a message is received". "It might be difficult to fix and delete the problem message". From the article: "I’ve been testing it by copy-pasting characters into Spotlight so I don’t end up crashing my browser". "I can cause this crash to happen more reliably in browsers by clicking on the string". So, not text-box specific and happening on display for a wide variety of applications, including web pages.