When you scan the realm for WiFi networks to affix, many names popup. These names are normally chosen by the homeowners of the community so typically you would possibly come throughout some which are bizarre or humorous. However, in the event you do come throughout a WiFi community that has the identify “%p%s%s%s%s%n”, don’t be part of it.

This is as a result of in response to safety researcher Carl Schou, there appears to be a bizarre bug with iOS that simply can’t appear to deal with this specific WiFi identify. What occurs if you do be part of it’s that it results in your iPhone’s WiFi being completely disabled. Schou additionally claims that altering the hotspot’s SSID or rebooting his cellphone made a distinction.

After becoming a member of my private WiFi with the SSID “%p%s%s%s%s%n”, my iPhone completely disabled it’s WiFi performance. Neither rebooting nor altering SSID fixes it :~) pic.twitter.com/2eue90JFu3

— Carl Schou (@vm_call) June 18, 2021

The solely option to get this mounted is to reset your iPhone’s community settings, which is fortunately fairly simple and fewer damaging in comparison with resetting your cellphone. You can see the video above from Schou that exhibits that when he tries to re-enable WiFi, it simply retains turning it again off. At the second it’s unclear why that is occurring, however some speculate that the usage of “%” could possibly be the problem.

This is as a result of in some programming languages, “%” is used as a string-format specifier, and that when iOS sees it, they may be making an attempt to parse it which led to this situation. Oddly sufficient Android appears to be unaffected by it so for now it appears prefer it’s an iPhone factor. It’s not a cellphone breaking bug however hopefully Apple will situation a repair for it quickly.

Filed in Apple >Cellphones. Read extra about iOS and iPhone. Source: macrumors