Here’s a fun bug that I hadn’t heard of before, maybe because I’ve never owned an iGadget: if you send an audio message using Apple’s Messages app and that message mentions the bar chain Dave & Buster’s, another Messages user can’t receive it.

Why not? Apparently, the Messages app’s built-in transcription service autocorrects “Dave and Buster’s” to have the marketing-department-approved ampersand, which then gets blocked on the recipient’s end because a security algo mistakes that loose ampersand for either bad HTML or an attempted injection attack.

This bug also reportedly affects other brand names with ampersands, like M&Ms. Why Apple doesn’t use the HTML & for the ampersands it autocorrects into its Messages transcriptions is still a mystery, though frankly not that baffling a mystery.

Via Guilherme Rambo.