Apple reportedly fixes the bug that crashed Safari on conducting searches

On November 14, 2022, a number of publications reported {that a} unusual bug was inflicting Apple’s net browser Safari to crash on iPhones and iPads. Apparently, the bug prevented customers from looking for particular phrases and characters. As talked about in a report by 9To5mac, when customers began typing some particular letters into the search bar in Safari, the app would crash instantly, stopping customers from finishing their search. Though we didn’t encounter the bug, it reportedly affected many iPhone and iPad customers working on iOS 16. 

Typing sure phrases was inflicting Safari to crash on iPhone and iPads

Quite a lot of letters and searches appeared to set off the bug. As an illustration, typing “tar,” “bes,” and “wal” precipitated the net browser to crash. A number of customers took to the microblogging platform Twitter to report the bug. The report talked about that the bug may very well be precipitated on account of “some kind of textual content rendering bug affecting the steered outcomes that seem in Safari” when customers begin typing.

Additional, it was found that it was a server-side error that was inflicting the net browser to crash upon typing sure letters. Nevertheless, whereas penning this report on November 16, 2022, Apple appears to have mounted the bug. 

As per an replace added in the identical report, Apple has added a server-side repair for the bug. Which means that Safari customers shouldn’t expertise any app crashes whereas making an attempt to seek for something. Because it was a server-side error, Apple didn’t must launch an unique iOS replace in a single day to repair it. 

However, bugs associated to net browsers may very well be very irritating as they do not enable customers to entry the data they want. Within the coming days, Apple may even launch iOS 16.2, the replace that’s imagined to unlock 5G for Indian iPhones. 

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