[Crash] [iOS] - Opening search in WebView in iOS crashes app

[Take-A-Byte]

Description

I have created a simple MAUI app to reproduce the crash.

Environment

• It can be a MAUI app or MAUI Hybrid app
• Run the app on iOS 17.4 (I used a simulator)

Steps to create the app

1. Create a standard MAUI app in VS Code
2. Delete the content of MainPage.xaml
3. Add WebView to the MainPage with a source (e.g. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/user-interface/controls/blazorwebview?view=net-maui-8.0)

Behavior

• Expected - Search box opens
• Actual - App crashes

Note

• The app works fine on older iOS Simulator.
• If you want you can replace the website with any other website with search functionality and still the app crashes.
• I tried creating a native iOS app in XCode with WKWebView as well as UIWebView and everything works fine.

Steps to Reproduce

Creating new app

• Create a MAUI app with WebView or Hybrid MAUI app with WebView
• Source website should contain a search button that opens up search box
• Run app on iOS/iPad Simulator 17.4
• Click on search button

Using the sample app

• Run app on iOS/iPad Simulator 17.4
• Click on search button

Link to public reproduction project repository

https://github.com/Take-A-Byte/MAUIWebViewCrash/blob/main/ReadMe.md

Version with bug

8.0.7 SR2

Is this a regression from previous behavior?

Not sure, did not test other versions

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

iOS

Affected platform versions

iOS 17.4

Did you find any workaround?

No response

Relevant log output

No response

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Duplicate of #21057