Don’t do that on iOS 18 — or chances are you’ll lose your texts

A peculiar bug has appeared in iOS 18.

The brand new Apple software program replace, which matches dwell for everybody on Friday, has already develop into house to a bizarre little glitch that has probably catastrophic penalties. Based on 9to5Mac, if you happen to reply with a threaded message when somebody shares an Apple Watch face with you over Messages, you run the chance of shedding your whole textual content historical past with that particular person.

Mashable Gentle Pace

9to5Mac went a little bit deeper into what precisely occurs whenever you reply to an Apple Watch face. Apparently, as soon as it occurs, the Messages app will repeatedly crash if you happen to attempt to open the dialog. Harrowingly, this impacts each customers within the dialog, not simply the one that replied within the first place. So far as anybody can inform, the quickest answer is to delete the chat historical past between you and the opposite particular person.

Clearly, that is not nice. The easy act of replying to a watch face should not run the chance of shedding years of chats with a beloved one. Don’t be shocked if Apple fixes this with haste.