Apple launched iOS 18 on Monday, and now that the rollout has been underway for greater than 48 hours, a fairly nasty bug has sadly surfaced. It is affecting the Messages app and might solely be triggered by a really particular scenario.
Particularly, all of it begins with somebody sharing a watch face with you from their Apple Watch in an iMessage thread. In case you are on iOS 18 and obtain such a shared watch face message, it is of the utmost significance that you don’t reply to it.
In the event you reply in a thread particularly to that message sharing the watch face, Messages will then repeatedly crash while you attempt to open the dialog in query. The app could crash a lot in actual fact that it might stop you from interacting with different chats as properly.
As soon as the bug is triggered, it additionally impacts the one that shared the watch face, not simply the receiver. The signs are the identical on that finish as they’ve been described above.
Till Apple fixes this, you’ll be able to try and delete your complete dialog in query, however you’ll most definitely fail due to how typically the Messages app will crash. And even for those who succeed, this implies you’ll have misplaced everything of that dialog with all its historical past. You’ll thus without end lose entry to attachments like images and movies that have not been saved outdoors of Messages.
In the event you delete the dialog after which restore it from the lately deleted location the bug will likely be reintroduced, in order that’s undoubtedly not an answer. Apple will most likely tackle this drawback within the first replace to iOS 18 (we assume named iOS 18.0.1) which actually cannot come quickly sufficient.
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