iPhone homeowners who’ve put in Apple’s new iOS 18 software program replace ought to be warned: There’s a Messages bug that may trigger crashes and will even end result within the lack of priceless information.
Certainly one of 9to5Mac’s readers noticed and reported the bug, which the location (having efficiently reproduced it) then mentioned in a information article Wednesday. The issue centres round an Apple Watch characteristic that lets customers share their watch face over Messages (or Mail).
“The bug is triggered,” 9to5Mac writes, “when someone replies to a shared watch face in a thread on Messages in iOS 18… If this happens, Messages will repeatedly crash if the user tries to open the conversation in the app. Sending or responding to conversations from other chats directly in Messages is also not easily possible as the app may repeatedly crash.”
It’s a two-way problem, too. The bug impacts each customers.
As 9to5Mac explains, resolving the bug is extraordinarily difficult. What you must do is delete the dialog thread on each units. It’s inconceivable, sadly, to delete solely the thread, since neither person will be capable of open it because of the bug. Even deleting the whole dialog will likely be troublesome as a result of Messages retains crashing-and efficiently finishing this repair leads to the lack of doubtlessly years of dialog historical past and attachments. It could in actual fact be higher to go away the bug in impact for now and hope {that a} future software program repair allows it to be sorted with out the lack of a whole Messages dialog.
And naturally, it’s much better to keep away from the bug within the first place and not reply to look at faces in a thread. And in addition set up updates to iOS 18 in a well timed vogue. The iOS 18.1 beta remains to be affected by it, however reportedly in fewer particular eventualities than iOS 18.0. And we assume a future updates will arrive earlier than then to roll out a repair.