Yesterday, I had something weird happen to me. Or more accurately my iPhone. While using the Mail app, I had my mail disappear and the Mail app behave strangely. As in I could go into it but sometimes if I clicked on an email account, it would not respond. I tried force quitting Mail but that didn’t fix it. So I just rebooted my iPhone and then it worked fine. Until an hour ago where the same thing happened to me.
So using the logic of “once is a fluke and two or more times is a pattern” I figured that this must be a bug of some sort. Thus I went to Reddit and the Apple Support Community to see if I was alone in having this issue. Unsurprisingly I found I was not alone.
Reading through the posts in both places, I can see the following:
- This is not specific to any iPhone type.
- This appears to be specific to iOS 18.5
- This only started happening in the last few days
Clearly this is a bug that Apple has to be seeing. The question is, when are they going to fix it? I hope that Apple releases iOS 18.5.1 to fix this soon. But who knows if they will do that. In the meantime, be prepared to reboot your phone if you encounter this. Not the best mitigation, but it’s all that’s available at the moment.
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A Weird Mail Bug Is Hitting Users Of iOS 18.5
Yesterday, I had something weird happen to me. Or more accurately my iPhone. While using the Mail app, I had my mail disappear and the Mail app behave strangely. As in I could go into it but sometimes if I clicked on an email account, it would not respond. I tried force quitting Mail but that didn’t fix it. So I just rebooted my iPhone and then it worked fine. Until an hour ago where the same thing happened to me.
So using the logic of “once is a fluke and two or more times is a pattern” I figured that this must be a bug of some sort. Thus I went to Reddit and the Apple Support Community to see if I was alone in having this issue. Unsurprisingly I found I was not alone.
Reading through the posts in both places, I can see the following:
Clearly this is a bug that Apple has to be seeing. The question is, when are they going to fix it? I hope that Apple releases iOS 18.5.1 to fix this soon. But who knows if they will do that. In the meantime, be prepared to reboot your phone if you encounter this. Not the best mitigation, but it’s all that’s available at the moment.
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