Some iPhone and iPad users seem to be experiencing a serious bug in Safari at the moment, with the app crashing after entering certain search terms. The bug has been going on since last night, from what we can tell, affected users are running different versions of iOS 16.
Reports indicate that Safari crashes after typing the first three letters of a keyword into the search bar, but the cause of the problem is unknown. We’ve seen stories of “tar,” “bes,” “wal,” “wel,” “old,” “sta,” “pla,” and other words crashing the app. What happens is that people try to type things like “Walmart” or “Starbucks” or “best” and don’t get past the first three characters before Safari crashes.
@AppleSupport Hello, I am very surprised by my new iPhone 14 and my mother’s new iPhone 14. When we start typing Walmart “Wal” in the search engine of the phone immediately near Safari. See the video below.. please help? pic.twitter.com/P5mq1ahaih
– 805 🇺🇸 (@Dakodes) November 14, 2022
It is not clear what is causing this issue, and not all users seem to be affected at this time. It affects people running iOS 16, iOS 16.1, iOS 16.1.1, and iOS 16.2 beta, and Apple seems to be aware of the problem due to reports people have provided to the support team.
@rsgnl @MacRumors A serious bug was discovered on two iPhones (on home and cell networks). Open Safari, start typing the best word and then click the space bar. Safari completely failed! Trying to search for “best wallpaper…” but can’t make it to wallpaper lol. — Chris Weaver (@chrisbweaver) November 14, 2022
Given that this issue has been raised in an instant, it is possible that some kind of bug on the server side of Apple will be able to be solved without an iOS update.
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