iPhone Owners Alert: iOS 18 Text Glitch Crashes Apps—Discover the Shocking Fix!

If you’re an iPhone owner running on **iOS 18**, you’ve got to be cautious about a *newly discovered glitch* that could lead to severe data loss! This troublesome bug is sparked by a specific message sent from Apple Watch users, causing the Messages app to crash repeatedly.

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Apple Watch enables users to easily share their custom watch faces via Messages or Mail, straight from their wrist. However, if a user running iOS 18 on their iPhone replies to such a watch face message in a thread, that’s when the glitch occurs.

But what exactly is a **threaded message**? Simply put, it’s a direct reply to a previous message, allowing for a neat way to revisit conversations. These are often used in group chats and gained popularity on platforms like WhatsApp before being adopted by Apple’s Messages app.

Once the glitch is triggered, both the iPhone and Apple Watch user face a serious problem: the Messages app becomes practically unusable. iPhone users can’t navigate to other conversations because the platform continually crashes.

**How to Break the Curse of the iOS 18 Glitch**

So, what’s the solution? Unfortunately, the only way to resolve the issue is to completely delete the conversation thread from both devices. Yes, you read that right—this means losing your entire conversation history, including attachments like photos, videos, and voice notes!

It can be heartbreaking to lose all that data, but it’s the only known method to *fix the glitch*. Restoring the deleted thread through an iCloud backup will only bring the crash-bug back—talk about a nasty cycle!

It’s crucial to remember that this glitch only affects iPhones running **iOS 18**. Those still on previous versions like iOS 17, or even the upcoming iOS 18.1, won’t have to deal with this headache.

One silver lining to waiting a bit before downloading a major update is that any pesky bugs, like the ones often found in early iterations, typically get sorted out in follow-up releases. However, the iOS 18.1 update is expected to roll out in October, and it’s not here just yet.

**Which iPhones Support iOS 18?**

Not every iPhone model supports this latest update. Here’s the list of devices compatible with **iOS 18**: