iOS 18 Beta 7 it crashes and reloads back to search so fast it looks like your query is just erased. Band-aid fix maybe.
“”: + anything in spotlight.
It crashes springboard and reloads in about half a second.
For me only works in App Library (and settings)
in about half a second
Or more than a minute on devices that are not the latest generation.
it means you could type any of :
“”:a “”:b “”:c ... “”:(any other characters)
Sounds like SQL injection, actually more like a JSON injection… As if it’s trying to concatenate the input directly inside the value of a JSON dictionary, without proper escaping and/or encoding (base64 or hex, for example).
Possibly the input is being stored for user history (and, therefore, auto completion) purposes? Be it or not, something JSON-related is taking place here, from a kernel level or sufficiently deep so to cause a kernel crash (and rebooting).
(Sorry for jargons, I’m a developer seeing this issue through a developer lens)
This is not a kernel panic and associated reboot. It simply crashes the SpringBoard, which is kinda like the “desktop environment” of iOS. It’s responsible for the homescreen. It’s a normal userspace process, not related to the kernel at all.
Yeah, since the last character can be anything, it certainly seems JSON-related. If it wasn’t, SQL could be on the table (“”::<input> is how you convert types).
Good eye. I find it incredibly odd that JSON would be involved in any way here, but that does seem like a logical idea.
Confirmed it exists even in 18.1 Beta 2. Reloads faster than I can even time it though.
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