Folks, here's the official word from Apple. First, Apple has never heard of this issue and they talk to billions of people every hour. This is literally the first time the Senior Advisor has EVER heard of an issue with apps opening and the Senior Advisor has been working on iOS for over 30 years. So, what you need to do to resolve this is perform a hard reboot of your phone. If the issue persists, you'll need to Erase all Content and Settings and set-up the phone is new (DO NOT restore from backup). If the issue persists, you'll need to plug your device into a computer and do a fresh installation of the OS and NOT restore from backup. If the issue still persists, you'll need to collect some logs by running sysdiagnose with Mail logging enabled. Once that is finished, you'll upload the zipped file to Apple and it will be escalated to Engineering. Engineering will get back to you within 24-48 hr.
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'This App is No Longer Shared' iOS Bug Preventing Some Apps From Opening
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Agreed. iOS should be bi-yearly. All their OS’s actually.
What the hell man, sounds like terrible advice overall.
Fun side fact, onto why the ‘billions of people‘ per hour is over-blasted: the most social person talks personally to someone new on average once a day (maybe two or three if your daily work requires so, but even then after vacations, weekends, and all it goes back to maybe 2 a day). By this metric in a year of talking to someone new is only 365, in a 100 years (supposing you are meeting someone new since day zero birth and lucky to live that long and not kill yourself of just talking to people) is only 36k people... not even half of 100k. If you hire 100k employees who do nothing else but on average talk to someone new once a day since the day they are born, during their lifetime, the combined effort would be 3.6Billions in those 100years lifetime.
From a software side Apple needs to better managers and better software developers, and they need to communicate better.
This means starting basic guidelines that peripatetic across all groups, Then build off that. The best automated tests come from clear requirements, and product owners having a firm grasp of their product, but their developers also being allowed to share their knowledge. Its a two way street.
Clear vision helps guide the company as well, and I have no idea whom comes up with the direction of the innovation. I’m sure there are subject matter experts, but whom is picking the subject. Is there a metrics? What are standards for code quality? Running to meet a deadline to go to production will eventually mean corner cutting.
This means starting basic guidelines that peripatetic across all groups, Then build off that. The best automated tests come from clear requirements, and product owners having a firm grasp of their product, but their developers also being allowed to share their knowledge. Its a two way street.
Clear vision helps guide the company as well, and I have no idea whom comes up with the direction of the innovation. I’m sure there are subject matter experts, but whom is picking the subject. Is there a metrics? What are standards for code quality? Running to meet a deadline to go to production will eventually mean corner cutting.
Remember us free software fans who back in the 90s warned everyone about DRM and how insidious it is and how it will keep you from using your own software on your devices eventually?
Well, here we are. A stupid bug is keeping us from running even free applications.
I don't like the future we ended up in.
EDIT: I bought Apple devices and didn't follow my own advice, I know. I'm just grumbling about stupid this all is. It's so unnecessary.
I don't think this is DRM ... I think it's a kernel permissions issue ... the 'shared' being used in the error seems like the device user doesn't have permissions to run an app or the app permissions has changed (either on device or from the App Store server) after a recent update.
Same here. I’m and early adopter by nature and update the official iOS (not beta) as soon as it’s available. YouTube worked fine For the last couple of days with the new iOS until this morning.
I think this has to do more with something Apple is failing to do when checking Family sharing.
And this will be the world in the future. Human is not good at hearing warnings and prepare for it. Next time will be the ownership concept taken away as no one can truly purchase and own anything. Subscription for life.Remember us free software fans who back in the 90s warned everyone about DRM and how insidious it is and how it will keep you from using your own software on your devices eventually?
Well, here we are. A stupid bug is keeping us from running even free applications.
I don't like the future we ended up in.
EDIT: I bought Apple devices and didn't follow my own advice, I know. I'm just grumbling about stupid this all is. It's so unnecessary.
As of now, let’s see when Apple addresses this problem, and hopefully don’t leave it after iOS 14 is debuted.
This bug has been happening to me for MONTHS! Pretty much most apps that were shared with me from a family member gets this bug every two weeks or so...offloading it reinstalling fixes it...but come on Apple, it's a simple fix! Use those $billions$ to good use and make your software 'just work'.
I sprayed beer all over my Logi keyboard reading this ... 'Thicc' cat LMAO. I don't think it's the putty cat you thought you actually saw right there
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This was never really such a major deal or a cry from so many prior to Federighi managing BOTH iOS and macOS. I'm sure he's good at what he does, with serious mistakes here and there - nobody is perfect. However I think Tim needs to reconsider putting so much responsibility and pressure of BOTH OS' under 1 leader.
both teams can still collaborate effectively and work seamlessly on their projects ... but for bugs not to occur so randomly or so frequently you need to have 2 leaders one or iOS and another for macOS. Stop trying to cram both into one. Different use cases, different paradigms, different directions. share wealth of technologies, sure, but steering them in the same direction feels like a sinking ship pointed in 'the right direction'.
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I suspect this is manifesting on Apple TV apps as well. Just Dance Now claimed my account wasn’t VIP even tho the monthly subscription was paid and even the app said it was valid. It still didn’t activate, and failed to “restore purchases”.
My daughter was displeased by this when she came home tonight... I bought her a 1day pass so she wouldn’t cut me.
(Kidding; she’s an angel, and equivalent of straight A’s in school. She deserves it!)
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Haha! Gold!
My daughter was displeased by this when she came home tonight... I bought her a 1day pass so she wouldn’t cut me.
(Kidding; she’s an angel, and equivalent of straight A’s in school. She deserves it!)
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Haha! Gold!
Remember us free software fans who back in the 90s warned everyone about DRM and how insidious it is and how it will keep you from using your own software on your devices eventually?
Well, here we are. A stupid bug is keeping us from running even free applications.
I don't like the future we ended up in.
EDIT: I bought Apple devices and didn't follow my own advice, I know. I'm just grumbling about stupid this all is. It's so unnecessary.
I guess that explains why the DIY homebrew mobile device community is so huge.
I love it. Lots of posts from people who are afraid that a Covid-tracing app will share their location data, and you decide to give total control over your phone to a stranger.
Just ask yourself: If you were the NSA, or the Chinese secret service, who would you make an offer they can’t refuse?
That’s what I mean.
My sister has this yesterday with WhatsApp and Strava on her iPhone 5S. She’s in a family group.
Not to worry, friend, for Apple has the resources to make this happen. Trust them, they’ve never, ever heard of an issue with opening apps before. So, you can be assured that these steps are necessary to resolve this known issue.
There is another workaround if you don’t want to delete the non-functioning app: go to the purchases of the person that shared the app. Install any small app that you don’t need. Run once, then delete again. That fixes the permissions issue and the original app will start again.
This issue is
- new
- easy to handle (offload and reinstall, 10 seconds)
- non topic for people with common sense
- new food for all iOS haters, crybabies and dark minds
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DRM doesn't actually protect against that, a DRMed app with a security hole in its jpeg loader will run code in a jpeg exactly the same as a non DRMed app. The DRM on iOS just stops other people running your copy of the app.
Executable space / NX protection & ASLR protect against this kind of bug, along with app store code verification. You can do all of those without DRM.
Edit: spelling
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