Watch Out For This New Url That Will Crash Your iPhone And Mac Safari If You Click It

#1 iPhone and Mac users should be aware that clicking on the URL CrashSafari.com will make your Safari browser crash and could even force your device to restart.

#2 Mischievous Twitter users are passing around a link, often disguised with URL shorteners, to “crashsafari.com,” a website created in 2015 that immediately crashes iPhones and iPads.

On the Mac, Safari will freeze (‘Application Not Responding'). You may need to restart your machine to get your browser working again. On some iPhones and iPads, the glitch may cause your iOS device to reboot.

Crashsafari was created by Matthew Bryant, a 22-year-old working in application security in San Francisco. "In my spare time I often test how browsers will handle odd code that gets thrown at them," says Bryant. He stumbled on the bug independently, he says, and made the browser- and phone-crashing sites "purely as a joke."

#3 Twitter users, of course, immediately began trolling their friends and strangers with the trick.

#4 The site will also crash desktop versions of Safari, if you're using that. So beware.

#5 A lot of people seem to be falling for it. As of earlier this afternoon, a single link had crashed over 93,000 phones.

#5 WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU CLICK ON CRASHSAFARI.COM?

The page includes a header title (which you'll never actually see because the browser crashes) and a small piece of JavaScript.

The JavaScript calls the HTML5 History API thousands of times in a loop, essentially causing Safari to freeze.

The memory will overload and the iPhone will overheat, which causes it to shut down completely.

Depending on how the website is opened, it will either crash the current app, the Safari browser, or the whole of system.

It will reboot on its own and the prank doesn't have the ability to install malware or pose any security threats.