Security News > 2022 > October > Mystery iPhone update patches against iOS 16 mail crash-attack
We use Apple's Mail app all day, every day for handling work and personal email, including a plentiful supply of very welcome Naked Security comments, questions, article ideas, typo reports, podcast suggestions and much more.
We've always found the Mail app to be a very useful workhorse that suits us well: it's not especially fancy; it's not full of features we never use; it's visually simple; and, it's been doggedly reliable.
If the crash happens quickly enough, you never quite get enough time to click on the trash-can icon or to swipe-delete the offending message before the app crashes again, and again, and again.
Of course, the other problem with what we jokingly refer to as CRASH: GOTO CRASH bugs in messaging apps is that other people get to choose when to message you, and what to put in the message.
Even if you use some kind of automated filtering rule in the app to block messages from unknown or untrusted senders, the app will typically need to process your messages to decide which ones to get rid of.
Therefore the app may crash anyway, and may keep crashing every time it restarts as it tries to handle the messages it didn't manage to deal with last time.