This Instagram Story can cause your smartphone to hang

Specifically, when the user clicks to view this story, a gray screen with random words will appear and then your smartphone will hang where it cannot exit or do anything. To work again the user is forced to reset the device.

This is not the first time such an error has occurred. In 2018, a Telugu character error also caused iPhone to hang because iOS was unable to decode the characters.

This Instagram Story can cause your smartphone to hang Picture 1

After analyzing this story of "pgtalal", Arun Maini from Mrwhosetheboss said that this user used two extremely large stickers, up to tens of millions of inches to create this story. Currently there is no photo sharing platform that can support (for comparison, normal stickers are from 0 to 1 inch in size). This is the reason why old iPhone and Android models are suspended. With flagship Android models can still work normally after watching this story.

Instagram does not allow users to post stories with giant stickers. So, in order to post the 'dead' Story, user "pgtalal" performed some tricks with HTTP Proxy to manually change the size of the sticker on Instagram's server.

Because the sticker is so large, the iPhone and most Android smartphones cannot display it, resulting in freezes.

For details, please watch the video below.

Samuel Daniel

Update 10 May 2021