iPhone homeowners who’ve put in Apple’s new iOS 18 software program replace must be warned: There’s a Messages bug that may trigger crashes and will even outcome within the lack of invaluable knowledge.
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 somebody replies to a shared watch face in a thread on Messages in iOS 18… If this occurs, Messages will repeatedly crash if the consumer tries to open the dialog within the app. Sending or responding to conversations from different chats immediately in Messages can be not simply doable because the app might repeatedly crash.”
It’s a two-way challenge, too. The bug impacts each customers.
As 9to5Mac explains, resolving the bug is extraordinarily difficult. What you’ll want to do is delete the dialog thread on each gadgets. It’s unattainable, sadly, to delete solely the thread, since neither consumer will be capable to open it as a result of bug. Even deleting the complete 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 might 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 complete Messages dialog.
And naturally, it’s much better to keep away from the bug within the first place and not reply to observe faces in a thread. And likewise set up updates to iOS 18 in a well timed trend. The iOS 18.1 beta continues to be affected by it, however reportedly in fewer particular situations than iOS 18.0. And we assume a future updates will arrive earlier than then to roll out a repair.
