More than 48 hours have passed since the release of iOS 18 and unfortunately a very bad bug appeared. The new bug it affects the Messages app and can only be triggered by a very specific situation. That is, it all starts with someone sharing an iMessage thread with you via an Apple Watch. If you are using iOS 18 and you receive such a common message with the watch, it is extremely important that you do not reply to it.
If you make the mistake of answering one, iMessage will repeatedly crash when you try to open that conversation. In fact, the app can get so stuck that it could prevent you from interacting with other chats as well.
Once the bug is triggered, it also affects the person who sent the message, not just the receiver.
Until Apple fixes this, you can attempt to delete the entire conversation in question, but you’ll likely fail due to the app’s crash frequency. And even if you succeed, that means you’ll have lost the entirety of that conversation with its entire history. Thus, you will forever lose access to attachments such as photos and videos that have not been saved outside of that app.
In case you delete the conversation and then restore it from the newly deleted location, the error will be reintroduced, so this solution is definitely not good either.
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Source: myphone.gr
