Apple Watch Faces Are Breaking Messages in iOS 18

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Apple’s new iOS 18 update it began deploying this week has a major flaw in the Messages app. It will continuously make the app on your phone and the phones of people with whom you are texting, freeze and crash to an extent. But that is not the end of it all, there is a way of going around it.

To share custom watch faces, Messages in the Apple Watch help you to share the watch faces. To the recipient, that particular text can be used to reply to the shared watch face or to reply in a thread format just like any other text. It is possible to attempt to make a threaded reply like that for a shared watch face in the new iOS 18, however, it will crash the app. If one or both of you attempt to open the thread, press “reply,” or even swipe on the watch face, the app will always crash. While using the Messages app, it might even freeze if you attempt to open the other conversations once this bug is activated.

This problem was first brought to light by 9to5Mac when one of their readers complained of losing his or her chat history. Apple has not commented on this bug but it might be fixed intin with the release of the future updates for iOS 18. Currently what can be done is to delete that thread from the chat. Well, that might be difficult with them having to manage the app that continues to crash at times. You can either delete all the threaded responses or you can delete the watch face message; thereby we can eliminate the thread connected with the watch face message. The person whom you are texting will have to perform the same on his or her device as well. It will only stop crashing once both copies of the thread, or watch face, have been deleted.

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If you can not open the specific conversation anyway because the app crashes every time you attempt that, and you have no desire to wait for the patch, the final solution is to just delete it altogether. Try that though and you have to remember to ensure that you were able to back up all the chats and media.

The Messages app stores removed conversations in a different section for a limited time where you can retrieve them from. As 9to5Mac has pointed out, if the thread that has been deemed as causing the bug is to be restored, then the bug is likely to re-emerge. The only solution that is possible until a patch comes is not to share a watch face at all.

Source: 9to5Google