We are about to be able to install the final version of iOS 18, but while we wait for September, the official version of the operating system for iPhones is iOS 17. More specifically, iOS 17.6.1. A version as advanced as this is already completely stable, and that is It’s been more than a year since its launch at WWDC 2023.
Good battery performance, no lag or slowdowns… What could iOS 17.6.2 improve? Well, surely. a failure which some users have noticed and which we, from Applesfera, have also noticed. We have managed to reproduce itIt’s nothing serious, nor a security issue. But yes, it exists.
A four-character combination in the search engine causes your iPhone to crash and restart
It would seem that we are in a beta phase, but it is not. It is a bug found in iOS 17.6.1 and Apple is already working to fix it in the next update, which is expected to be released at the end of August. But what is this bug?
If you type “”:: in the app library search your iPhone will restart
If you want to try it on your own iPhone, you can do so. As you can see in the video in this articlenothing happens and you run no risk. Simply by typing “”:: in the app library search engine, the iPhone has a bug and restarts to get out of it.
This is the well-known “respring”. This It’s a very quick reboot which frees up memory on the device. Years ago, with less refined operating systems like the current ones, it was more common to find them. Especially in beta versions like the one we currently have with iOS 18. However, I don’t even remember the last time I had a respring, and I’m a user of all the betas that Apple releases.
Per se, It is very rare for a person to think of writing “”:: in the app library search engine. But there are users who have been surprised. Surely by chance, by mistakenly pressing this combination of characters. From Applesfera We will notify you when iOS 17.6.2 is available and we will check on our own personal iPhones if this bug, which locks the iPhone and then restarts it, has been fixed.