Security News > 2020 > June > Wallpaper that Crashes Android Phones

The image, a seemingly innocuous sunset sky above placid waters, may be viewed without harm.

The fault does not appear to have been maliciously created.

Rather, according to developers following Ice Universe's Twitter thread, the problem lies in the way color space is handled by the Android OS. The image was created using the RGB color space to display image hues, while Android 10 uses the sRGB color space protocol, according to 9to5Google contributor Dylan Roussel.

When the Android phone cannot properly convert the Adobe RGB image, it crashes.

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