topic Re: Sharing cause UI to crash in Galaxy S23

Sharing cause UI to crash

miniwaves — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 13:46:22 GMT

I've been trying to share various links through the share feature, and no matter which application I'm sharing from. It causes the application to crash. Is anyone else having this problem? Or know a solution?

EDIT:

I held down the volume down button + the power button and made the phone force restart. The UI started working again! Hopefully this solves the problem!

EDIT EDIT:

The sharing stopped working again overnight...

EDIT EDIT EDIT:

Restarted my phone again the same way as described above ("EDIT") and it started working again. Not happy I have to restart my phone every so often just to share a link.

Re: Sharing cause UI to crash

pro303 — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:02:33 GMT

I've been having the same issue as well. So far I haven't seen any solutions

Re: Sharing cause UI to crash

VerbumVeritum — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 17:43:05 GMT

Try these steps. With the phone powered off, press + hold power and volume up buttons until the Samsung logo disappears. Using volume keys, highlight Wipe cache partition, and then power to select and confirm. Returning to the previous menu, use volume to navigate to Repair apps, and power again to select and confirm if necessary. This will reindex all your apps.

Re: Sharing cause UI to crash

chrispt — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 03:13:51 GMT

Noticed this today as well. Did the steps mentioned but it didn't solve the problem.

Re: Sharing cause UI to crash

miniwaves — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 03:20:48 GMT

I ended up force resetting my phone and it let me share links again without glitching

Re: Sharing cause UI to crash

lch001 — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 09:31:27 GMT

the same here. It is really unacceptable that a brand like Samsung allows bugs like this for so long. Samsung, are you going to do anything about beyond resenting terminals, etc,etc?

Edit: I managed to fix it. Basically I was reviewing what apps were updated when problems arised . I was removing apps that are "share receivers" (those registered as able to receive messages from other apps via system share option) and found out Signal was recently updated. I uninstalled signal and done, problem gone.

Re: Re: Sharing cause UI to crash

miniwaves — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 19:32:51 GMT

That makes sense! Signal is one of those apps that does change quite a bit of... Settings per say

Re: Sharing cause UI to crash

user5KsFmJq4zR — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 21:27:12 GMT

Same issues here. Also no solution other than what you mentioned which gets me one share, maybe

Update: I use messages primarily but clearing Signal's cache seemed fo get the job done

Re: Sharing cause UI to crash

SeriousMax — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 19:35:25 GMT

I have the same problem after Quick Share update from Galaxy Store (

Re: Sharing cause UI to crash

Tim038 — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 06:39:19 GMT

Uninstalled signal after reading this and this has fixed the problem for me aswell, thx.

Re: Sharing cause UI to crash

lch001 — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 19:06:47 GMT

In my case, clearing signal cache worked for a while. After some time, the problem got back, so I finally uninstalled it (I barely use it)

Re: Sharing cause UI to crash

amyjustamy — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 20:55:36 GMT

Was hoping today's update was fixing this, but it just happened to me again. Have also rebooted my phone to try to fix it.

Re: Sharing cause UI to crash

Members_UMAhj2f — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 02:13:46 GMT

Same problem here, the sharing interface crashes every now and then for the past few days, multiple times a day, usually trying again works but sometimes it also crashes.

Re: Sharing cause UI to crash

FastShow — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 09:38:14 GMT

This has been driving me insane, exact same issue here and also a Signal user.

This Github issue relates to the problem, worth keeping an eye on: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/13176

Re: Sharing cause UI to crash

igo_rh — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 06:06:34 GMT

Clearing Signal cache helped for now. No need to restart the phone...