How so? What's this horrible experience you speak of? Even if it was, how is that any type of consolation for anyone with an Apple device?
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Apple Working on a Fix for iOS 9.3 Web Links Crashing Issue
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Again, thank you. No software is bug-free. I mentioned above, how were Apple to know that this Booking app could cause an issue? What do they need to do? Download every app and make sure iOS still works? I don't think so. And as you say, the users affected is probably like 0.0000002%.
And okay, the following was when iOS 9.3 was in the beta phase but the app Real Racing 3 wasn't working and people were complaining that Apple should fix it, it was ridiculous.
Apple could have anticipated that Universal Links would be an issue if the size of the set was overly large.
The 9.3 update has been utter crap. On my 5s the original 9.3 update worked fine, but now it is nagging me to perform ANOTHER 9.3 update for no apparent reason. And when I select "Remind me Later" it pops up a screen asking me to enter my lock code so that it can install the update automatically overnight.
On the other hand, my wife and daughter both tried to install the update on their 5c phones, and in each case got the "device is not connected to the internet" error when entering their iCloud passwords. And their phones most certainly were connected to the internet.
So in some cases it won't install, in other cases it keeps insisting on reinstalling, and for other people apparently it bricks their devices. What a lousy, lousy update.
On the other hand, my wife and daughter both tried to install the update on their 5c phones, and in each case got the "device is not connected to the internet" error when entering their iCloud passwords. And their phones most certainly were connected to the internet.
So in some cases it won't install, in other cases it keeps insisting on reinstalling, and for other people apparently it bricks their devices. What a lousy, lousy update.
Did you not read the article? There's no correlation between not having the booking.com app and not being affected. It's right in the article.
They should release an ad hoc update just to fix this single issue urgently. Let's call it 9.3.0.1
What device? And have you tried some basic troubleshooting like clearing safari web data (cache) and turning off javascript? Also I wouldn't say that being unable to click a link in another page to get to the next site is "mission critical". Perhaps you should restore back to iOS 9.2.1 before they stop signing it. I mean if this only started when you updated to 9.3.
http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/0...hes-and-link-problems-for-some-ios-9-x-users/
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Yes. I've done all that. Doesn't fix it. I have an iPhone 6s.
The article is wrong - this only affects users with the Booking.com app (I had it on one of my devices affected, but luckily not the phone). Here is more detail on the bug: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2016/0...hes-and-link-problems-for-some-ios-9-x-users/
I have yet to see this issue on my iPhone or my iPad. I think y'all are making it up or making a big deal over nothing.
See what I did there?
See what I did there?
The complainers swarm on articles like these. We'll probably hear next how the iPod's click wheel sucks/sucked.
It's so unstable. Every time I look over at my mates' phone, something's happeing
No, I cannot read, what do you expect...
Why are you dismissing people having legitimate issues on their iOS devices as "complainers"?
This issue isn't related to iOS 9.3. Most of what you are talking about seems to be more related to https://www.macrumors.com/2016/03/28/apple-releases-updated-ios-9-3/.
This doesn't really have anything to do with iOS 9.3.
It's not only related to that app as people even without that app have been affected as well.
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Seems like the context there was related to things that are outside of what seem to be legitimate issues.
I have the same frustrations, but as long as apple has been writing code, code has become exponentially more complex than it ever was.
Video games are a good case in point- The biggest and most popular game titles are riddled with bugs and glitches, so many it's a joke, but the software is designed to do so damn many things at once that there's little they can to to address them all. You're comparing Tetris to Halo.
I don't want new iOS features. I want Apple to put a freeze on all new iOS features for a year and focus on reliability. The only updates I want are bug fixes for known/unknown issues.
Actually they've had a really excellent week.
The govt backed down on the privacy issue compelling companies like Apple to install "backdoors" for govt access.* New devices were announced last week. As well as software updates for OS X, iOS and tvOS.
Yes, bugs were discovered and they're being quickly fixed. I think some people here really believe even with the thousands of people doing public beta testing, as well as Apple's internal testing, every single bug will be discovered. Only a fool would believe that. Or, of the thousands of people testing, some reported the bug, but Apple for some reason chose to not do anything about it. Right...
What people don't realize is that device software has become incredibly more complex over the last seven years. And with a billion+ Apple devices in use there are a lot more people using them and the underlying software.
* People who use devices other than those made by Apple should wonder why the govt only took Apple to court. And why is it that the DA in NYC only has several hundred Apple phones he can't get into and is not taking other manufacturers to court. Seems gvmnts have no problems getting into non-Apple devices. Why is that? I think that says something very interesting!
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Legitimate issues aren't being dismissed. Why are you classifying my comment as such? IMO it's unfortunate that these articles turn into... "Let's complain about everything Apple" and "Apple sucks more and more" in stead of just discussing this specific issue. Complainers will complain because its a habitual behavior.