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Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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Post by dpkirchner »

alkonaut wrote: post #12
throwawayment wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

are you trolling? type it into the search bar and it does crash

It’s not enough to do that. There is something more specific required: a specific version of iOS, a specific language, a particular phone, some setting, something in the search/url history etc. But it clearly doesn’t reproduce across all devices/versions/settings with iOS Safari. Better repro steps needed.

The repro steps are accurate and sufficient on their own -- following the described steps does crash Safari for the reporting user (and many of us). What is missing is the complete device configuration which is distinct from steps (and would probably be overwhelming, in any case).

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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Post by dpkirchner »

netsharc wrote: post #11

Can someone contribute more than "lol, me too!" and figure out which API endpoint it's hitting, what it's returning and guess why it's crashing? I don't have an iOS device otherwise I'd do it...

Someone from Apple can probably attach a debugger and figure out the problem, but most of us are going to be in the dark.

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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Post by josefresco »

alkonaut wrote: post #2

No it doesn’t. Better repro steps needed. Edit: best guess so far: something regional or language dependent? Looks like US-specific search suggestions? My non-crashing circumstances: (iPhone11, iOS 15.6.1, Swedish language, in Sweden)

Crashed for me (iPhone 14, iOS 16.0.3)

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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Post by yamtaddle »

bartread wrote: post #20
throwawayment wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

are you trolling? type it into the search bar and it does crash

They're not trolling. I typed it into the search bar. Safari didn't crash. Is the person who wrote the tweet trolling? Probably not either. But what type of iOS device do they have? Which version of iOS are they running? Which language and locale? Those things matter. Other things that apparently shouldn't matter might matter as well: other apps installed or running, notification configuration, how many tabs they hav…

1) It's a tweet, not a bug report.

2) The very first thing any actual engineer on Apple's payroll ought to try to reproduce it will work (most recent official iOS, "happy path" settings that have Safari Suggestions turned on)

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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Post by jtbayly »

numpad0 wrote: post #30
alkonaut wrote: post #2

No it doesn’t. Better repro steps needed. Edit: best guess so far: something regional or language dependent? Looks like US-specific search suggestions? My non-crashing circumstances: (iPhone11, iOS 15.6.1, Swedish language, in Sweden)

People are suggesting that it seems to come from Google suggestions, try first letters for local equivalents of Old Navy, Starbucks, Walmart, etc.

I have DDG as my search engine.

Crashes on my phone running 16.1.1.

People are suggesting it might be en-US only.

Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app

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Post by josefresco »

bartread wrote: post #20
throwawayment wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

are you trolling? type it into the search bar and it does crash

They're not trolling. I typed it into the search bar. Safari didn't crash. Is the person who wrote the tweet trolling? Probably not either. But what type of iOS device do they have? Which version of iOS are they running? Which language and locale? Those things matter. Other things that apparently shouldn't matter might matter as well: other apps installed or running, notification configuration, how many tabs they hav…

iPhone 14, iOS 16.0.3 English, US, No Tabs, Wifi

Launch Safari

Tap address bar

Type "old"

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