PlayStation 4 reportedly crashing due to malicious message and how to protect your PS4

Numerous PS4 owners on Reddit and across social media are warning of a message containing a string of characters that can reportedly cause Sony’s console to seize up and crash. In some cases, the console gets so mixed up from this glitch that users are performing a factory reset on the hardware to get it working normally again.

We’ve seen bugs just like this on mobile platforms, where a certain message or strange character can wreak havoc and cause unstable behavior. If the reports are true, Sony will likely act quickly to roll out new system firmware that eliminates the issue. After all, this company loves issuing updates that improve system performance and stability.

To avoid any headaches until this gets sorted out, below are some steps you can take to protect your console against receiving the message at question from your multiplayer opponents and other strangers.

If you receive the message, delete it from Sony’s PlayStation Messages app for Android or iOS instead of opening it on your console.
There are reports that deleting the suspect message with Sony’s smartphone app beforepowering on your console and signing into PlayStation Network is enough to avoid problems. Sony’s PS4 messaging app is a free download and available on both Android and iOS.

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How to restrict messages on your PlayStation 4 to friends only:

A) From a web browser, you can visit this URL. Sign in with your PS4 account credentials. Choose “Personal Info | Messages” and then select the edit button near Messages. From here, you can choose anyone, friends only, or no one. Until Sony fixes this bug, you should choose one of the latter two options.
B) From the PS4 console, go to Settings —> Account Management —> Privacy Settings. Choose “Personal Info | Messages” and then select Messages. From here, you can choose anyone, friends only, or no one. Until Sony fixes this bug, you should choose one of the latter two options.

How to rebuild the PS4 system database:

If you’re affected and find your PS4 acting funky even after getting rid of the message, you might want to boot the console in safe mood and rebuild the database. This process shouldn’t impact any of your saved data. Here’s what Sony says it does:
Scans the drive and creates a new database of all content on the system. This operation may take a long time depending on the type and number of data items.
This option is useful for cleaning up the data on your PS4 as it reorganises everything on the hard drive. Select this option if you are experiencing issues such as game freezes or frame rate drops.

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Doing this definitely sounds like a good step to get everything straightened back out if some jerk hits you with the bad message.

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5 Tricks You Need to Know to Master the iPhone

The iPhone has been around for over a decade now, yet somehow it feels like it’s been around for even longer. It controls nearly every aspect of our lives, from work to social media, and as such, we’ve spent a lot of time with it. That amount of usage may make it seem like we know everything about the iPhone, when in fact, there are a few little-known tricks that could make using the phone infinitely easier.

I shuffled through my iPhone usage and found five tricks that I use on a daily basis and they make my life a lot easier. Keep in mind that some of these tricks may seem quite elementary, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t people out there who have no idea these tricks exist. Some of them will prove to be useful to you while others may not fancy your attention and that’s completely fine.

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Email keyboard shortcut

You’ve probably heard of adding shortcuts through the keyboard, but never thought twice about actually using them. I definitely didn’t until I decided to take advantage of the trick because I was tired of typing in long email addresses. I use multiple email accounts on my phone and am constantly signing in and out.

With the keyboard shortcuts, instead of typing out the whole email address, it is now available to me through three short letters. I used the shortcut “gml” to write out my Gmail address and vice versa for other accounts. Now any time I need to fill out my email, I just type in the three-letter shortcut and save myself a lot of time.

To add keyboard shortcuts, go to Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement.

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Control center customization

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Adding additional controls will purely vary on your preference. I added Wallet, Voice Memos and Apple TV remote among others. Instead of shuffling through folders to find these apps when I need to use them, I can just go to Control Center and access them quickly. To add these extra controls, go to Settings > Control Center > Customize Controls.

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Password manager autofill

If you don’t use a password manager by now, I don’t know how you function. There are so many passwords to keep track of, it’s nearly impossible to remember them unless you are using the same password, which I highly warn against. However, the process of using a password manager in iOS 12 became even more convenient with the addition of password autofill.

Using a password manager like 1Password, you can turn on autofill and whenever you log into an account through an app or web browser, the password autofill function will instantly come up on the keyboard and autofill the password for you. It erases the annoyance of having to remember the password or jumping out of the app and into the password manager to retrieve the password.

To activate password autofill, go to Settings > Passwords & Accounts > Autofill Passwords and select your password manager of choice.

Swipe up to close apps

This one might seem like a no-brainer, but it’s actually changed recently and many users may not know of the new function. Before iOS 12, to close apps on an iPhone X (and now XS, XS Max and XR), you had to press and hold on an app in the multitasking menu until a little minus button appeared to let you close out apps.

Thankfully, Apple took away the needless extra step with its most recent update and now you can just begin swiping up to close out apps in the multitasking menu.

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Siri Shortcuts

One of the major new features Apple introduced with iOS 12 is the Shortcuts app. We’ve talked about it before, and if you haven’t downloaded the Shortcut app and added some shortcuts, you definitely should. The shortcuts range from something simple like calculating the tip to something more complex like turning on your smart lights as soon as you get home.

Some of the shortcuts can get quite complicated, but just start small and you’ll be on your way to creating the right shortcuts that work best for you. Apple makes the process easier by suggesting multiple shortcuts.

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Google Pixel 3 Phone hands-on—Not the best first impression, only succeeds on its hardware design

NEW YORK—After an almost endless number of leaks, the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL have finally been unleashed. After scavenging the show floor for info and some experience with the new handsets, we're back to talk impressions.

The first thing you notice when you pick up either Pixel 3 is the back texture. The Pixel phones have traditionally had a two-tone look, accomplished in the past by a mostly metal back with a glass top. This year the back is all glass, but the two-tone look remains thanks to two different treatments to the glass. The top is bare, shiny glass and a fingerprint magnet, while the rest of the phone has a soft-touch, satin-like matte coating.

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The coating feels great, but it doesn't seem very durable. There were already visible scratches on both of the demo units I photographed, which you can see, and it's easy to damage the back with something as mundane as a USB-C cable. Both of the demo phones I photographed at the show already had several scratches on them. Harsh camera lighting is pretty much the worst-case scenario for finding scratches, but I've never seen demo units this beat up before at a launch. I was disappointed by the change from metal to glass, but this is a double whammy: all the fragility of glass with none of the scratch-resistant hardness.

The coating on the back stops before it hits the edges of the phone. Since the matte coating feels so nice, I immediately wanted it to coat the sides of the phone, too, but I wonder if this was cut for durability concerns. The phone has a glass sandwich construction, with a glass panel on the top and bottom and a band of material in between. Google tells me the side material is aluminum, but it has some kind of coating on it that gives it a glossy finish and attracts fingerprints.

I'm sad to say the front design is just as disappointing in real life as it is in pictures. Google has turned in two phones that just aren't up to the 2018 competition. The Pixel 3 XL follows the notch display trend, but Google has the biggest notch in the industry. The cutout extends so far into the display that it doesn't fit inside a normal Android status bar, so the bar is twice as tall as normal, which looks ridiculous. The width of the notch means you only get to see three notification icons on the screen before you run out of space. Combined with the 3 XL's sizable bottom bezel, I don't think there's a single 2018 phone in the Pixel 3's price range you can point to and call a worse design. Google is pretty much at the back of the pack here.

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The Pixel 3 isn't any better. It has top and bottom bezels that are bigger than pretty much any other 2018 smartphone in its class. At least it's not as ugly as the Pixel 3 XL; it's just dated and doesn't feel like a 2018 flagship design.

The justification for both of these compromised front designs comes from two features: the dual front-camera system and the dual front-facing speakers, so they had better be fantastic. I'll have to try the speakers somewhere quieter than at a large event, but Google claims they are 40 percent louder than the Pixel 2's speakers. That's a good sign, because, despite how they looked on paper, the Pixel 2's "front-facing speakers" were not any better than the more space-efficient earpiece and bottom speaker combos on devices like the iPhone.

The camera system is another thing that will have to wait for the review. The dual-camera front system can switch between a wide angle and a normal camera lens, allowing it to "zoom out" and have a better view of a group of friends or a selfie with something in the background. I have some disappointment that Google hasn't built any kind of face unlock system, despite carving out a big chunk of the front for extra sensors.

The displays looked great at the show and in pictures. The shots you're looking at are just under the singular lighting of the show, though, so it's too early to say much. Apparently DisplayMate has done some early testing and came away a big fan of the Pixel 3 display, so it sounds like Google finally nailed down a respectable display provider. The Pixel 2 XL used an LG OLED with banding and burn-in issues, so hopefully those days are behind Google. (I'm guessing it switched to Samsung displays.)

On the software side of things, the Pixel 3 is running Android 9 Pie, so there are not a ton of changes. The biggest change is that gesture navigation is now mandatory—it's on by default and you can't turn it off. It's a very strange decision considering it was almost universally panned online throughout the entire beta process and during the release. Google doesn't seem to care about the feedback in this case.

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