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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
#62For those not reproducing: your device may have to reside CONUS for some of "tar"(-get), "bes"(-tbuy), "wal"(-mart), "wel"(-ls fargo), "old"(-navy?), "sta"(-rbucks), "pla"(-net fitness?) to work. Try local brands, e.g., "Harrods", "Tesco", "Picard", etc. For my country "Gusto", a casual dining franchise, reproduces the issue. List is from [1]. Edit: stopped reproducing here as of 19:11 UTC. Edit: some people digged i…
Does not crash for me. (US, using “old “.) Safari suggestions on. IOS 15.7 (19H12).
Installing 15.7.1 now to check that version (and because I might as well install it anyway...) Edit: doesn’t crash on 15.7.1 either (though my first test on 15.7.1 was at 17:28 UTC.)
Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app
#63“best “ “bedt “ “old “ “wel “ “dta “ All of these crash safari in iOS for me. What’s strange about this bug is that it happened overnight for multiple iOS version. It seems to be a server bug that happens with the requests that populate the suggestions. Turning off safari suggestions fixes it.
Concur, smells strongly of a server-side change, that it's hitting multiple versions all the sudden. Which might mean it's also relatively quick/easy fix?
Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app
#64None of the strings crashed my safari, I'm on whatever the newest version of iOS is, just updated it yesterday. edit: Also, I'm on the iPhone 11 or 12 I think? So maybe model has something to do with it?
It seems to be tied to "Safari Suggestions", so if you have that turned off you won't see the crash.
I'm on 16.1.1 with Safari Suggestions turned on. No crashes here. iPhone 12 Pro.
Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app
#65None of the strings crashed my safari, I'm on whatever the newest version of iOS is, just updated it yesterday. edit: Also, I'm on the iPhone 11 or 12 I think? So maybe model has something to do with it?
Same here, impossible to make it crash, and yes suggestions are on. (Although I must say I never get any suggestions for some reason)
Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app
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It seems to be tied to "Safari Suggestions", so if you have that turned off you won't see the crash.
I'm on 16.1.1 with Safari Suggestions turned on. No crashes here. iPhone 12 Pro.
Wild! Mine crashed the first try, turned off Safari Suggestions, crash behavior gone.
Turned it back on... still no crash. Search engine makes no difference.
Wonder if it's a cache thing and disabling Suggestions cleared that, removing whatever bad data was hanging around, or if it was a purely server-side bug and they've already fixed it.
[EDIT] Some others saying it stopped happening, so may have been fixed.
Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app
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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).
Tbf the “steps” in the tweet didn’t even specify where in Safari to enter the text (text area, search bar, anywhere). So even absent the relevant config I’d say it’s a pretty lacking bug report in the steps too.
Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app
#68For those not reproducing: your device may have to reside CONUS for some of "tar"(-get), "bes"(-tbuy), "wal"(-mart), "wel"(-ls fargo), "old"(-navy?), "sta"(-rbucks), "pla"(-net fitness?) to work. Try local brands, e.g., "Harrods", "Tesco", "Picard", etc. For my country "Gusto", a casual dining franchise, reproduces the issue. List is from [1]. Edit: stopped reproducing here as of 19:11 UTC. Edit: some people digged i…
> your device may have to reside CONUS for some of "tar"(-get), "bes"(-tbuy),
I have no idea what this means
Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app
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It’s their own “Safari suggestions” service. I don’t know if that’s device local or some Apple API which changed but disabling it prevents the crashes.
I wonder if "Safari Suggestions" is crossing a privacy line with its API it shouldn't and iOS nukes the app from orbit.
I doubt that since it’s their own code but I’d easily believe that it hits an API endpoint which just started malfunctioning. The description is vague but it appears to retrieve a bunch of different kinds of information from some Apple service. Clearly a massive test coverage miss if my speculation is right.
Re: Typing “old” (space) into iOS Safari crashes the app
#70None of the strings crashed my safari, I'm on whatever the newest version of iOS is, just updated it yesterday. edit: Also, I'm on the iPhone 11 or 12 I think? So maybe model has something to do with it?
It seems to be tied to "Safari Suggestions", so if you have that turned off you won't see the crash.
Not for me, I actually turned that off just now, I didn't know it was "on". Maybe a hacker who resides on my iPhone fixed the bug for me?
Also, I'm on the iPhone 11 or 12 I think? So maybe model has something to do with it?