what does it mean when an iPhone has a panic or a kernel panic?
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A “kernel panic” is a term used in Unix-like systems to signal encountering an error by the operating system from which it cannot gracefully recover. Computer programs are extremely complex logical sequences of operations and it can come about that a logical operation is attempted that cannot be completed.
For example you might have a computer trying to divide a number by zero; this shouldn’t ever be attempted because it cannot be done, but when things go wrong a program might be directed to try without any other option to resolve the situation. In a kernel panic event the operating system runs into a problem it cannot resolve and fails, usually dumping its memory contents for bug analysis and shutting down.
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