@/pgtalal& #39;s Instagram story highlight freezes up Instagram and then your phone! Here& #39;s why https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇🏻" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten (heller Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten (heller Hautton)">

The Instagram story highlight has a quiz, countdown and a question on the story which is wayyy out of bounds and the size is HUGE. This causes a rendering issue.

- This is not the same as the old iMessage bug
- Do not panic. Your phone is SAFE, there& #39;s nothing wrong - you haven& #39;t been hacked or anything.
- This is a bug on Instagram& #39;s side where they& #39;re not checking for sticker& #39;s x,y coords and width and height to be within limits.

On the iOS side, this seems to be an issue with CoreAnimation crashing backboardd due to Instagram asking it to render a really really large cube (this is most likely the same cube effect that& #39;s shown when swiping through stories)

Another glitch (which was also triggered by @/pgtalal), is where the Instagram app crashes. This is due to right-to- left characters rendered alongside some new line characters, reverse line feed character and some other special chars which should be stripped by Instagram& #39;s API.

Update: As of now, stories can no longer crash your entire device! @/pgtalal has taken the story down that crashes your phone. This glitch has been fixed by Instagram!

The issue that crashes the Instagram app after viewing a specially crafted story still persists!