However, the Verge news site has suggested users disable the “search engine suggestions” option in Safari’s preferences or activate the private mode as a temporary workaround. For many users, simply tapping in the URL bar will cause the browser app to crash completely.
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Many jokes came to surface in social media with the website, as people trolled their friends by using a shorter link and making crash their phones without people realizing what has happened. If you click, it takes you to a malicious website that crashes iOS devices and web browsers.
Apple iPhone and Mac users are reporting complaints of Safari crashing every time they go to type anything into search bar of the web browser. The bug causing the issue appears to surface when Safari attempts to contact Apple’s servers to get autocomplete suggestions. Therefore, users should be very wary of suspect links.
It has been reported to affect other internet browsers outside of iOS, such as Chrome browser on Windows and Mac desktops and Android too. This causes a memory issue, and after about 20 seconds, an iPhone will reboot. Is Safari crashing when you tap the address bar?
The site www.crashsafari.co was created to do exactly what the URL promises: With just four lines of code, the site runs a script that’s able to crash the iPhone’s default browser.
Crashsafari.com was clicked on more than 100,000 times by Monday afternoon, and also affected Chrome and Firefox browsers.
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Apple is yet to acknowledge the issue (the status page on the Website reports no issues), let alone give the reason behind this weird problem or provide a patch for it just yet.
