“Looks like another Lock Screen bug has surfaced, this time in iOS 7.0.2, discovered by Dany Lisiansky, who posted a video of the bug to YouTube,” Gary Ng reports for iPhone in Canada.
“This bug allows users to dial any number from the Emergency call screen, which is normally only allowed for 9-1-1 calls,” Ng reports. “We were able to independently reproduce this bug and make any call from the Emergency screen as described.”
Ng reports, “How does it work? When a notification comes in (like a text message), swipe to the right on it but simultaneously swipe up on the camera icon, while holding down on the latter. Then dial a number and press the call button 2-3 times. This will crash the spring board (Apple logo will appear) but the call will go through.”
Read more in the full article here.
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Who sits around for hours trying to figure this stuff out?!?
KGB
Mossad, if you judge on the video.
(But certainly not NSA/CIA, they already know everything.)
They are already sitting and sleeping thanks to our taxes
Apparently, if someone enters my house, they can dial long distance to anywhere in the world by picking up my landline.
If anyone picked up my old flip phone, they could also dial out! Passcodes are primarily meant to protect the contents of the phone.
That being said, this will be nothing but bad press if there are too many of these.
I think the VAST majority of purchasers and potential purchasers of iPhones will never seen this obscure, geeky material.
And anyone geeky enough to see and and read it — the vast majority of them will know it is irrelevant.
So – bad press… I don’t think so.
“MANGO” because you can’t resist Mango!
“It’s just a jump to right…”
time to call the exterminators!
Klingons.
Ferengi. Klingons would care less.
Ferengi’s wouldn’t have figured it out.
NOT Klingon, but Hebrew. This site not only has racists, homophobes, and sexists, but also has anti-Semites. Show some respect for other cultures.
Lighten up Francis.Sheesh!
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Horrible!!! So if someone has your phone, they can make a call on it. Aaaargh!
It’s “get-notification-swipe-right-simultaneously-swipe-up-on-camera-icon-while-holding-it-then-press-call-2or3-times” gate.
It’s the old “get-notification-swipe-right-simultaneously-swipe-up-on-camera-icon-while-holding-it-then-press-call-2or3-times” trick. Second time I’ve fallen for that this month.
Always falling for a KAOS trick, eh, “John” (or should I say, Max?)
yeah yeah yeah yeah but no one can get pass my finger print id because I used my nose to set a passcode and the spy geeks never would have thought I’d do that.
If someone wants to go to that much trouble to use my phone to make a call, they can go ahead. It’d probably just be easier to ask, though
I just can’t get into iOS7 It is just too bright for me.. I like how “quiet” iOS6 looked. This just reminds me too much of Windows 8.
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Not on my iPhone 5
I discovered a similar bug. It happens if you swipe your index finger in a north easterly direction from 26% of the distance across the lower screen, and at the same time, using the little toe on your right foot, drag the third icon in the second row to your left, and with your tongue, lick the home button, while at the same time rubbing your stomach on the rear camera lens. Every time I do this, I get a severe pain in my lower back, causing me to drop the phone. Apple should fix this immediately.
No, no — you’re doing it wrong.
It’s “lick your stomach and press the Home button at the same time.”
😀
I was sitting in the Cheif of poliece’s office, when suddenly, I was attacked by a Neo-Nazi speeds tier group. It was the worst thing to happen to me. Torture is the worst thing to ever experience. I would never wish the torture of William Gates onto anyone else. Never…ever…ask for it…
So all one has to do is wait for a notification on a stolen phone and what? Have this sequence memorized?
I had a facebook notification, and tried it with that. Could not reproduce the problem.. Could it be a malformed notification hack?
I think these guys scan the OS for breaking points to get close the problem and then trial and error the rest of the way…
Maybe Apple can use the same scan tools to look for undesirable behavior? Or maybe it’s plain dumb luck.
I tried on mine didnt work! Bs
I thought the tried and true, up, down, left, right, left right, A, B, Start button would do it
Hmm might wanna try instead:
up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start
Why Oh Why do you even print this drivel? No semi-literate iPhone grabber is ever going to know this stuff. And if he/she did, you have got a lot bigger problem than them using your iPhone to make a call!
So it’s a less serious bug it seems.