It's become obvious that while the iPhone X has stood up as impressive hardware over the last six months, Apple's iOS 11 software hasn't weather as well, as a new iOS 11 problem emerged today.
Update: We added a fix for this problem in a YouTube video below and updated the story.
The 'black dot' bug is the nickname of the latest glitch to plague Apple's iPhone and iPad operating system, and all it takes is a simple text message with two emoji.
Specifically, the offending emoji string consists of a 'medium black circle' between a less than and greater than symbol, and a leftward pointing finger (officially known as 'backhand index finger pointing left' in the emoji dictionary).
Getting a text message with these characters will freeze your Messages app, even if you try to quit the application and open it back up again. It'll open to the last text you viewed, which contains the string. It's a vicious cycle.
The reason for this problem? There are thousands of invisible Unicode characters that are a part of this emoji string, according to 9to5Mac, and it overclocks the CPU trying to process them.
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