Apple launched iOS 18 on Monday, and now that the rollout has been underway for greater than 48 hours, a fairly nasty bug has sadly surfaced. It is affecting the Messages app and might 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 once you attempt to open the dialog in query. The app could crash a lot in actual fact that it may forestall you from interacting with different chats as effectively.
As soon as the bug is triggered, it additionally impacts the one that 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 to delete your entire dialog in query, however you’ll most definitely fail due to how usually the Messages app will crash. And even for those who succeed, this implies you’ll have misplaced the whole thing of that dialog with all its historical past. You’ll thus perpetually lose entry to attachments like images and movies that have not been saved exterior of Messages.
In case you delete the dialog after which restore it from the not too long ago deleted location the bug will probably be reintroduced, in order that’s undoubtedly not an answer. Apple will in all probability tackle this drawback within the first replace to iOS 18 (we assume named iOS 18.0.1) which actually cannot come quickly sufficient.
