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I would rather Apple not simply get a message sent to me forwarded to them. Is the trade off worth it in this case? That's not so easy to pick for all ~1/2 billion or so users.

All Apple would need to get is the notification that there was a crash. It could be left to the user if the crashed message gets forwarded.

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What sort of useful information would that even provide? It would just show that the system crashed because of a text. You'd still have to send some sort of contextual information about the text, which itself would carry non-metadata information about the text (ie, components of the text's contents).

What sort of useful information would that even provide?

If it's a widespread attack, then the traffic analysis would still be useful. A hex dump of the offending data could be sent.

> (ie, components of the text's contents)

Which may then crash the prompt asking if it can send the crash...

Just send the metadata and the hex dump.

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