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

For those not reproducing: your device may have to reside CONUS for some of &quot;tar&quot;(-get), &quot;bes&quot;(-tbuy), &quot;wal&quot;(-mart), &quot;wel&quot;(-ls fargo), &quot;old&quot;(-navy?), &quot;sta&quot;(-rbucks), &quot;pla&quot;(-net fitness?) to work. Try local brands, e.g., &quot;Harrods&quot;, &quot;Tesco&quot;, &quot;Picard&quot;, etc. For my country &quot;Gusto&quot;, a casual dining franchise, reproduces the issue. List is from [1].<p>Edit: stopped reproducing here as of 19:11 UTC.<p>Edit: some people digged into it[2][3], [2] includes partial endpoint URLs. Apparently this was happening for 7+^H^H 10+ hour.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrumors.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;11&#x2F;14&#x2F;safari-search-crash-bug&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.macrumors.com&#x2F;2022&#x2F;11&#x2F;14&#x2F;safari-search-crash-bug...</a><p>2: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;nejigami&#x2F;status&#x2F;1592174411712712706" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;nejigami&#x2F;status&#x2F;1592174411712712706</a><p>3: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;take6556&#x2F;status&#x2F;1592100775119171584" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;take6556&#x2F;status&#x2F;1592100775119171584</a>

They really, really don&#x27;t want you using old.reddit.com<p>Doesn&#x27;t reproduce for me btw. I also have the setting disabled that adds a period when typing a space twice, if that matters.

Unfortunately, connecting MacOS Safari debugging crashes the debugger when the iOS Safari crashes as far as I can tell.

“Best “ does it for me. 16.1.1<p>Turning off “Safari Suggestions” in settings fixes it.

None of the strings crashed my safari, I&#x27;m on whatever the newest version of iOS is, just updated it yesterday.<p>edit: Also, I&#x27;m on the iPhone 11 or 12 I think? So maybe model has something to do with it?

I had a bunch of open tabs in Safari, and typing &quot;old&quot; (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&#x27;s not a great way to manage stuff like that. Of course bookmarks would be the right way. But now it&#x27;s gone.<p>So be careful.

&quot;Turning off “Safari Suggestions” in settings fixes it.&quot; I should have turned that off before. It certainly stopped this one weird crash.

It crashes for me without even typing the space at the end. Works for best too.

Imagine having a domain or business name starting with &quot;old&quot; - nightmare scenario!<p>Old Spice, Old Navy...

Can someone contribute more than &quot;lol, me too!&quot; and figure out which API endpoint it&#x27;s hitting, what it&#x27;s returning and guess why it&#x27;s crashing? I don&#x27;t have an iOS device otherwise I&#x27;d do it...

In my case I don&#x27;t even need to type the space - the moment I press &quot;d&quot; it crashes.

“best “<p>“bedt “<p>“old “<p>“wel “<p>“dta “<p>All of these crash safari in iOS for me.<p>What’s strange about this bug is that it happened overnight for multiple iOS version.<p>It seems to be a server bug that happens with the requests that populate the suggestions.<p>Turning off safari suggestions fixes it.

I wonder if a crash log gets generated - Settings -&gt; Privacy -&gt; Analytics &amp; Improvements -&gt; Analytics Data will have it if so. Unfortunately, I can&#x27;t reproduce the issue on my phone (iOS 16.1, Canada)

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.

Reminds me of the bug where certain strings would crash apple products.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nvd.nist.gov&#x2F;vuln&#x2F;detail&#x2F;CVE-2018-4124" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nvd.nist.gov&#x2F;vuln&#x2F;detail&#x2F;CVE-2018-4124</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1957&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xkcd.com&#x2F;1957&#x2F;</a>

You thought only a bug <i>inside</i> your app could crash it?<p>Now your browser can crash because of a bug on a server, somewhere, which you weren&#x27;t planning on browsing to, let alone even knew existed.<p>The future truly is here.

No, doesn’t crash for me.

Has anybody reproduced this in… Firefox (on iOS of course)?<p>Asking for a friend who has Safari search suggestions disabled (so Safari does not crash) but encounters Firefox crashes regularly.

just got beta 2 installed and it did infact crash in safari

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...

Can confirm. For me a reboot, administered immediately after 3 consecutive crashes a few hours ago, seemed to fix the issue.

Haven&#x27;t updated to 16.1.1 and no issues.

in my phone nothing happens with &quot;old &quot;, but reproduced with okd<p>doesn&#x27;t crash in private mode

Huh, not replicable for me, in 16.1, on iPhone 13 Mini on EN-US. Was this added in 16.1.1?

Crashes for me with &quot;old&quot; on iOS 16.0 with an iPhone 11

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