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whoisjuan

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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.

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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?

> smells strongly of a server-side change

Doesn't need to be. Some software nowadays can toggle feature flags clientside behind your back. I know Firefox does (or did?) this. Creepy as all fuck.

> quick/easy fix

Wait, you don't want them to fix the client crashing on malformed data?

It's not universal, my iPhone 14 pro with 16.1 does not crash for any letters I can type, spaces or not. Suggestions work fine for me. Clearly there is another factor not obvious causing the crash. In any case Apple would see a whole influx of crash reports (assuming they are as anal about them as I used to be).

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