iPhone homeowners who’ve put in Apple’s new iOS 18 software program replace needs to be warned: There’s a Messages bug that may trigger crashes and will even consequence within the lack of beneficial knowledge.

One in every 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 somebody replies to a shared watch face in a thread on Messages in iOS 18… If this occurs, Messages will repeatedly crash if the person tries to open the dialog within the app. Sending or responding to conversations from different chats instantly in Messages can be not simply attainable because the app might repeatedly crash.”

It’s a two-way subject, too. The bug impacts each customers.

As 9to5Mac explains, resolving the bug is extraordinarily tough. What you want to do is delete the dialog thread on each units. It’s not possible, sadly, to delete solely the thread, since neither person will have the ability to open it as a result of bug. Even deleting the whole dialog might 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 look at faces in a thread. And in addition set up updates to iOS 18 in a well timed style. The iOS 18.1 beta continues 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.