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Android Users Beware—You Must Not Download This Dangerous Image

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This picture is now doing the rounds on social media—here’s why you must not download it.
Last month, iPhone users were put at risk by a so-called “text bomb,” a specially formatted text string that could be sent to a user on any message platform with a “content preview” function. When the message popped up on screen, the iPhone crashed—it was as simple as that. Fortunately, the iPhone would restart as normal. It was irritating, but nothing more. Now, though, it seems that it’s Android’s turn—only this time the issue can cripple a device, forcing a reset to get it started again.
First spotted by Ice Universe and shared on Twitter, the issue, it appears, sits with the way a particular image is formatted. As 9to5Google explains, the problem lies with “the color space of this specific image.

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