My iPhone 7 has recently been showing weird Japanese (I think) characters where the AT&T used to be, as well as a yellow sun symbol. All located in the status bar. This started after I upgraded to iOS 11 and it only stays for a few seconds. I will add a screenshot next time I notice, but has anyone else seen this or know why it's happening?
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iPhone iOS 11 showing sun and japanese writing in status bar
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chinese or korean perhaps. you might contact your phone service provider, it's their data that's dsplaying incorrectly...
My friend who has T-Mobile said his phone did something similar when on a trip and he was roaming. It must be a cell network somewhere....... I joked with him it must be the North Koreans spying on us.
It's what AT&T looks like when unicode encoding gets corrupted.
"I'm sure you figured out it's okay, that's a glitch with rendering AT&T. 'A' in ASCII is 0x41, '䄀' is unicode U+4100. 'T' in ASCII is 0x54, '吀' is unicode U+5400. '&' in ASCII is 0x26, '☀️' is unicode U+2600. Something in the beta is converting between 8-bit and 16-bit by adding the zeros on the end instead of the beginning."
From https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/4p9gwk/i_am_was_just_on_my_phone_and_my_carrier_switched/
"I'm sure you figured out it's okay, that's a glitch with rendering AT&T. 'A' in ASCII is 0x41, '䄀' is unicode U+4100. 'T' in ASCII is 0x54, '吀' is unicode U+5400. '&' in ASCII is 0x26, '☀️' is unicode U+2600. Something in the beta is converting between 8-bit and 16-bit by adding the zeros on the end instead of the beginning."
From https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/4p9gwk/i_am_was_just_on_my_phone_and_my_carrier_switched/
The same thing happened to me when I was on a trip and it just switched from T-Mobile to the same exact characters as you had. I don’t know what the problem was though.
I had the same issue when i landed at jfk... I was roaming from a UK phone... went away when I left jfk and returned when I arrived back for my flight home