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.
CONUS (can't help but giggle) supposedly stands for Continental United States, as I learnt from a sibling comment here. First time I'm hearing that acronym.
Target is a supermarket chain in USA. I assume Bestbuy is also something like that.
In my browser (Firefox on Android) if I type "tar" it auto-suggests completing the url to "target.com". Useless to me because I'm nowhere close to USA and there's no Target in my country.
Speaking of which, maybe they should have a separate list of autocompletable sites based on the user's location. However, I'm not sure of the privacy implications of that.
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.)
Hm, I am on CONUS and I’ve visited bestbuy.com a lot recently. The bug is not happening to me. Probably because I’m on iOS 15.6 and the bug happens starting with iOS 15.7, according to your Macrumors reference.
Probably I should upgrade even more slowly in the future…
I use my phone as little as possible, I just realized the only 2 things I type into my mobile browser (currently safari) on a regular basis are new(s.ycombinator.com) and old(.reddit.com). Never put that together before, it's been like a decade.
Interesting, I had never heard of this tip before. How do you do this though? Do you just add it at the end like a flag? (e.g. "sparking water -best" ?) In general, I thought these kinds of search engine commands were being phased out, but it looks to me like it would filter out those garbage articles that would bring up results like "top/best 15 brands of sparkling water" etc.
I can only get to bes before it crashes, turning off safari suggestions fixed it. I think it’s maps/shopping related, old navy and Best Buy were the suggestions.
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.
That's actually an interesting datapoint, it means Safari is crashing so hard it flushes the tab storage; normally "killing" (especially a background kill) Safari won't do that.
Readit News
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
I have no idea what this means
Target is a supermarket chain in USA. I assume Bestbuy is also something like that.
In my browser (Firefox on Android) if I type "tar" it auto-suggests completing the url to "target.com". Useless to me because I'm nowhere close to USA and there's no Target in my country.
Speaking of which, maybe they should have a separate list of autocompletable sites based on the user's location. However, I'm not sure of the privacy implications of that.
Would be quite the story if shitty adware causes crashes.
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.)
Probably I should upgrade even more slowly in the future…
1. apple shipped a feature for walmart causing their browser to crash
2. apple shipped walmart code in their browser which crashed
3. apple shipped walmart plugin in their browser and then apple made a breaking change which crashed
3rd one is my favorite because it's the most dysfunctional
Doesn't reproduce for me btw. I also have the setting disabled that adds a period when typing a space twice, if that matters.
I wasn't able to reproduce the bug.
Turning off “Safari Suggestions” in settings fixes it.
edit: Also, I'm on the iPhone 11 or 12 I think? So maybe model has something to do with it?
Also, I'm on the iPhone 11 or 12 I think? So maybe model has something to do with it?
So be careful.