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 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 function 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 difficulty, too. The bug impacts each customers.
As 9to5Mac explains, resolving the bug is extraordinarily tough. What you have to do is delete the dialog thread on each gadgets. It’s not possible, sadly, to delete solely the thread, since neither person will be capable to open it as a result of bug. Even deleting your entire dialog can be tough as a result of Messages retains crashing-and efficiently finishing this repair ends in the lack of probably years of dialog historical past and attachments. It could in truth be higher to depart 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 observe faces in a thread. And likewise set up updates to iOS 18 in a well timed trend. 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.