by numpad0 on 11/14/22, 6:49 PM
For 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 into it[2][3], [2] includes partial endpoint URLs. Apparently this was happening for 7+^H^H 10+ hour.
1: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/11/14/safari-search-crash-bug...
2: https://twitter.com/nejigami/status/1592174411712712706
3: https://twitter.com/take6556/status/1592100775119171584
by TechBro8615 on 11/14/22, 7:53 PM
They really, really don't want you using old.reddit.com
Doesn't reproduce for me btw. I also have the setting disabled that adds a period when typing a space twice, if that matters.
by obituary_latte on 11/14/22, 6:59 PM
Unfortunately, connecting MacOS Safari debugging crashes the debugger when the iOS Safari crashes as far as I can tell.
by avanai on 11/14/22, 6:23 PM
“Best “ does it for me. 16.1.1
Turning off “Safari Suggestions” in settings fixes it.
by ok_dad on 11/14/22, 6:24 PM
None 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?
by jaywalk on 11/14/22, 7:01 PM
I had a bunch of open tabs in Safari, and typing "old" (space) not only crashed Safari but got rid of almost all of the open tabs. It was all stuff I needed to refer back to, and yeah that's not a great way to manage stuff like that. Of course bookmarks would be the right way. But now it's gone.
So be careful.
by jakedata on 11/14/22, 6:54 PM
"Turning off “Safari Suggestions” in settings fixes it." I should have turned that off before. It certainly stopped this one weird crash.
by hnews_account_1 on 11/14/22, 6:39 PM
It crashes for me without even typing the space at the end. Works for best too.
by josefresco on 11/14/22, 6:42 PM
Imagine having a domain or business name starting with "old" - nightmare scenario!
Old Spice, Old Navy...
by netsharc on 11/14/22, 6:21 PM
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...
by skykooler on 11/14/22, 6:34 PM
In my case I don't even need to type the space - the moment I press "d" it crashes.
by whoisjuan on 11/14/22, 6:47 PM
“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.
by nneonneo on 11/14/22, 7:02 PM
I wonder if a crash log gets generated - Settings -> Privacy -> Analytics & Improvements -> Analytics Data will have it if so. Unfortunately, I can't reproduce the issue on my phone (iOS 16.1, Canada)
by sneak on 11/14/22, 9:04 PM
Turning off Safari Suggestions is one of the first and most important privacy tweaks on a new iPhone. Otherwise every keystroke you type in the address bar gets sent to Apple in realtime.
by omoikane on 11/14/22, 6:45 PM
by lizardactivist on 11/14/22, 10:07 PM
You thought only a bug
inside your app could crash it?
Now your browser can crash because of a bug on a server, somewhere, which you weren't planning on browsing to, let alone even knew existed.
The future truly is here.
by Overtonwindow on 11/14/22, 6:17 PM
No, doesn’t crash for me.
by TheMechanist on 11/15/22, 2:46 AM
Has anybody reproduced this in… Firefox (on iOS of course)?
Asking for a friend who has Safari search suggestions disabled (so Safari does not crash) but encounters Firefox crashes regularly.
by fonix on 11/14/22, 6:19 PM
just got beta 2 installed and it did infact crash in safari
by gjsman-1000 on 11/14/22, 6:55 PM
For goodness sake Apple - this takes the cake for weirdest bug since the early Windows 10 Preview build which caused random letters to be missing from text...
by shon on 11/14/22, 7:51 PM
Can confirm. For me a reboot, administered immediately after 3 consecutive crashes a few hours ago, seemed to fix the issue.
by deafpolygon on 11/14/22, 6:36 PM
Haven't updated to 16.1.1 and no issues.
by QuadmasterXLII on 11/14/22, 6:18 PM
in my phone nothing happens with "old ", but reproduced with okd
doesn't crash in private mode
by gnicholas on 11/14/22, 6:57 PM
Huh, not replicable for me, in 16.1, on iPhone 13 Mini on EN-US. Was this added in 16.1.1?
by DefineOutside on 11/14/22, 6:50 PM
Crashes for me with "old" on iOS 16.0 with an iPhone 11
by alkonaut on 11/14/22, 6:08 PM
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)