Subj : This iOS 18 Messages bug could cause you to lose an entire conver
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Thu Sep 19 2024 10:15:04

This iOS 18 Messages bug could cause you to lose an entire conversation

Date:
Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:11:22 +0000

Description:
An iOS 18 bug can cause the Messages app to repeatedly crash when users share 
Apple Watch faces.

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 iOS 18 is out now, and its an update that brings a lot of good things, but 
it also comes with at least one quite serious bug. Fortunately, its a bug 
thats also easy to avoid if you know about it. 

 9to5Mac reports that if someone shares their Apple Watch face with you in 
the Messages app, then  if youre running iOS 18 and reply to the message in a 
thread  the Messages app will crash for both you and the person who sent the 
Apple Watch face. 

This isnt just a one-off crash though  it will also then crash any time you 
try to open that conversation, and will frequently crash when you're viewing 
other conversations too, leaving the entire Messages app near unusable. 
(Image credit: Apple) Deletion is the only solution 

The only fix that has been found is to delete the conversation that triggered 
the bug from both devices, a process which can be tricky, since the Messages 
app will keep crashing. And of course, doing this means you lose that whole 
conversation, including any photos or videos that havent been saved outside 
of Messages. 

You can restore the conversation from the Recently Deleted folder, but this 
will reportedly reintroduce the bug. 

9to5Mac additionally reports that the bug wont be triggered if you reply to 
the Apple Watch face using a device running the iOS 18.1 beta , only iOS 18. 
But it seems that if someone replies from a device running iOS 18 then the 
bug can be triggered for the sender of the Apple Watch face, even if their 
device is running different software. 

Its not clear if this bug will always trigger under the above circumstances, 
but its definitely not worth the risk. So for now, do not share Apple Watch 
faces in the Messages app, regardless of what version of iOS your device is 
running, and if someone shares an Apple Watch face with you, dont respond to 
it in a thread if youre running iOS 18. 

Presumably Apple will already be working to fix this issue, perhaps in an iOS 
18.0.1 update, so hopefully youll be safe to share Apple Watch faces again 
soon. And once it's been resolved, anyone who's already fallen victim to this 
bug should hopefully be able to safely restore the conversation from their 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/phones/ios/this-ios-18-messages-bug-could-cause-you-
to-lose-an-entire-conversation


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