iPhone Messages App Faces Issues in iOS 18
Recent reports have indicated that there are problems with the Messages app on iPhones after they were upgraded to iOS 18 , which Apple released last Monday.
After the system was launched, an annoying bug appeared during use that affected the Messages application, but fortunately this bug only activates in very specific circumstances.
The glitch starts when someone sends an Apple Watch face in an iMessage, causing the app to crash repeatedly when replying to that message.
Frequent app crashes may also cause users to be unable to interact with other conversations.
The problem is not limited to the recipient only, but also affects the person who shared the watch face, as the defect is similar for both parties, which doubles the spread of the problem.
You can try to delete the entire conversation that is causing the problem, but this solution is likely to fail given the frequency of the app crashes. Even if the deletion is successful, the entire conversation history will be lost, and this will result in the loss of photos and videos that were not saved outside the Messages app.
When you delete the conversation and then restore it from the deleted, the error will return again, which means that this is not an effective solution.
Apple is expected to address this issue in the first minor update of iOS 18 , as Apple addresses the issues observed in its systems by launching minor updates, but they are not subject to specific dates or fixed plans.