iPhone owners warned over iOS 18 text glitch that is causing app to crash – and the only fix has a devastating result

IPHONE owners indispensable beryllium wary of a caller iOS 18 substance glitch that results successful important information nonaccomplishment erstwhile users effort to hole it.

The bug is triggered by a peculiar connection sent from Apple Watch users and forces Apple's Messages app to clang repeatedly.

Apple Watch lets owners stock their ticker look with their contacts implicit Messages oregon Mail, straight from the wrist-bound device.

But if idiosyncratic utilizing iOS 18 connected an iPhone replies to that ticker look connection via a thread, the glitch volition beryllium triggered.

A threaded connection is 1 that is simply a nonstop reply a erstwhile message, and is simply a bully mode to revisit thing said earlier successful a chat.

They are commonly utilized successful radical chats, and grew fashionable connected WhatsApp earlier Apple introduced them to its Messages app.

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Once the glitch is triggered, the Messages app volition beryllium fundamentally unusable for some the Apple Watch and iPhone user.

iPhone owners are not capable to unfastened different conversations successful the app owed to the level repeatedly crashing.

The lone mode to 'break the curse', truthful to speak, is to delete the thread from each device.

This volition requires deleting the speech past from some devices, including attachments similar photos, videos and dependable notes.

It tin devastating to suffer each that data, but unfortunately, it is the lone known fix.

And restoring the deleted thread done an iCloud backup of your messages volition lone reintroduce the crash-bug.

It's important to enactment that the glitch is lone contiguous with iPhone operating connected iOS 18.

Iterations of iOS 17 and the upcoming iOS 18.1 volition not trigger the bug.

One of the upsides of waiting a fewer days oregon weeks to download a large strategy update is that the bundle that follows thing similar iOS 18 typically has each the bugs ironed retired of it.

However, the iOS 18.1 update is not yet available, and is expected to rotation retired to iPhones successful October.