Apple launched iOS 18 on Monday, and now that the rollout has been underway for greater than 48 hours, a reasonably nasty bug has sadly surfaced. It is affecting the Messages app and may solely be triggered by a really particular scenario.
Specifically, 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 case you reply in a thread particularly to that message sharing the watch face, Messages will then repeatedly crash if you attempt to open the dialog in query. The app could crash a lot in truth that it may forestall you from interacting with different chats as properly.
As soon as the bug is triggered, it additionally impacts the one who 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 the complete dialog in query, however you’ll almost definitely fail due to how usually the Messages app will crash. And even if you happen to succeed, this implies you’ll have misplaced the whole thing of that dialog with all its historical past. You’ll thus endlessly lose entry to attachments like pictures and movies that have not been saved outdoors of Messages.
In case you delete the dialog after which restore it from the just lately deleted location the bug might be reintroduced, in order that’s undoubtedly not an answer. Apple will in all probability tackle this downside within the first replace to iOS 18 (we assume named iOS 18.0.1) which actually cannot come quickly sufficient.
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