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A was discovered bugs in iOS where, if an iPhone 12 tries to connect to a network that has a specific name, it gets stuck connecting to Wi-Fi. From then on, the iPhone can't connect to any network anymore.

First, researcher Carl Schou tried to connect his iPhone 12 to a network named “%p%s%s%s%s%n” and was unsuccessful. He then tried to connect the phone to other networks and was unsuccessful. He checked his device’s settings and saw that the connectivity feature was automatically disabled. Schou tried changing the network’s SSID (name) and restarting the iPhone, but the problems continued.

According to reports from other users Apple (Apparently, the bug is specific to devices running iOS) the same thing happened when they entered that name into the network and tried to connect. Other comments on Schou's Twitter post report that their Android phones connected to the network normally.

The problem may be the use of the % sign at the beginning of the network name.

The iPhone phenomenon is believed to have its connection to the Wi-Fi The crash is due to an issue with input parsing, where the percent sign (%) at the beginning of the network name could be misinterpreted by iOS as a string format specifier. In programming terms, this would be like the sign telling the phone's operating system that the following characters could be either a variable, a code, or even a command rather than plain text.

To fix the issue on affected iPhones, users must reset their device's network settings. To do this, go to Settings, select General, select Reset, and then click Reset Network Settings, confirming the prompt. The bug is a bit more complicated than it seems, as it is a vulnerability that can be exploited by a malicious person who can exploit it in other ways.

Through which channels you reach those people, classic and out of the box. MacRumors e Apple Insider

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