Apple 's support team has posted online a workaround for all those who have fell "victims" of a bug in Apple's iMessage service that could crash their phone's Messages app. Earlier this week, iPhone users discovered that receiving a small string of special text characters over Apple's iMessage service could reboot their iPhones, blocking them from reading incoming texts.

Apple is aware of the issue and will make a fix available in a software update. Until the update is available, iPhone owners can use these steps to re-open the Messages app:

• Ask Siri to "read unread messages."
• Use Siri to reply to the malicious message. After you reply, you'll be able to open Messages again.
• In Messages, swipe left to delete the entire thread. Or tap and hold the malicious message, tap More, and delete the message from the thread.