Typing "s" in iPhone Search bar causes it to crash

Solved! Just got off of the phone with Apple and this worked for me.

Settings, General, Dictionary, uncheck “Spanish” and “Spanish-English”

”S” now works in spotlight search.

Apple rep says the engineering team is working on a permanent fix.

iPhone IOS 18 search “S” issue. - Apple Community

navigating to Settings > General > Dictionaries fixed the issue.

you should see the dictionaries update quickly. I also have the Spanish and Spanish English installed and did not need to remove any.

Same here. Very frustrating and reboot fixes it for about 30 seconds. If I immediately follow “s” with another letter the search will work but you have to be really quick. Typing “s” alone will not work. Someone messed up somewhere. I’m hoping that the great minds at Apple will resolve this quickly.

Same issue here. Force restart fixes for 5-10 minutes then same issue again with an "s"

Force restart your iPhone. This will rebuild the search index and probably clear the error.

I tried force restart as well. Still facing the same issue.

Experiencing this on my iphone 16 pro, tried rebooting but still seeing the issue.

Tried force rebooting, it briefly (1 minute or less?) worked but then started crashing again. Assuming once the index was rebuilt

I am facing similar issue with iPhone SE but with the difference that it crashes with any of the following letters: "n", "i", "c", "g", "k", ":", ";", "@", ".", ",", "" ", "!", "0", "9", "7", "5". Typing any one of these and the keyboard crashes - clears itself - pops back up, but cannot write anything starting with any of these characters. The whole search has become useless.

I removed all dictionaries as suggested, restarted a bunch of times, unfortunately to no avail.

Hi everyone. A long shot that I don’t know would work: go to Settings > Search and turn off Show Recent Searches and Show Related Content.

Thanks, but it doesn’t make a difference.

Forced restart was only a temporary fix for me. Problem reoccurs.

Same issue here - I do have the Spanish and Spanish dictionaries enabled- need them. Hopefully 18.1 will fix

This worked! Thank you