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'This App is No Longer Shared' iOS Bug Preventing Some Apps From Opening
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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.
It’s a bug. The App Store servers add complexity, sure, but at the end of the day, there were no good ol’ days where bugs in the OS didn’t happen. The 90s? That was when your Mac was full of third-party extensions who could access the entire OS with zero memory protection. Any bug could affect any app. Any crash could bring down the entire machine. This happened all the time. How often does apps not launching in iOS happen?
No.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.
Why? If you read the comments, people on iOS 12 and my iPad is on 13.4.1 and had the issues. Is nothing to do with 13.5.
It never happens to me until yesterday.
You realize it’s just an API? For it to work you need to download an app that supports it AND then turn it on? 🙄
Also, you have a smart phone, they can do that anytime they want without an app.
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There appear to be multiple problems causing the same issue. I've had one app (with a Family Share) do this for years (iOS 12 or so until now) -- uninstalling and re-installing works for a few weeks and suddenly boom-o again.
Reached out to the developer; they had no idea either.
Reached out to the developer; they had no idea either.
Happened to me when trying to run WhatsApp. Just uninstalled, reinstalled, then good to go. I've had this before in the past when running stuff my wife purchased (or other way around). Uninstalling-reinstalling worked for us. Kinda sad to still see this around.
Go over to Android or some other competitor then. You will soon realise that Apple, although making occasional errors, are still well ahead of the pack in terms of reliability and innovation. Forgive their rare issues and rejoice that you are still enjoying the best eco system available.
It happened to me and other family members. It happened randomly, that I believe ios bug instead app bug.
Well sorry for stating the completely obvious, but ther slogan was never "it just works, 100% of the time without fail" for sevaral reasons
1: it is not as short and memorable
2: even the most eager appl pr drones realised that they coulldnot say it pecause it is iompossible, things do fauil. and if the put No faliuere aver up front and center they only provide food for litigation (esp in the US it seams)
The more innetesting question is : Does the statment "it just works" still hold tro for a large majorety of apple users? I'm not saying that it does or does not, I don't have the data at my fingertips and tbh that is a bit more resech then I'm prepared to do for a forum comment (call me lazy if you want, yu might have a chance of beeing correct). I'm not defending apple here, they have people on staff for that, it just struvk me as an innteresting point to mak so take it for what it is. And no, I'm not angry or ofended and this is in now way an atack on you or enyone else in the tread (ok that was the disclamer out of the way)
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Ok this made no sense to me, the youtube app is free. or did you mean sharing of premium (ie payed) content via the app?
This is probably a server-side outage that doesn’t have anything to do with iOS 13. It seems to affect 12 as well.
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It’s happening with my kid’s iPad.
They technically are buying the apps with their own email IDs but I have family sharing on because I must approve all their purchases. Given they are so young, I have their devices locked down and all installs must go through me, via a pop up that appears on my iPhone. Also, at bedtime, they are locked out of their apps. This is native Apple functionality so I’d expect it to work, but nonetheless we’ve gotten this error.
For us, it never happened until iPadOS 13.5.
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.
Only that you don’t „own“ the software, even if you purchased it and in most cases, companies reserve the right to revoke your license or make the software unaccessible. So if DRM stops working, intentional or not, you have no rights. It’s terrible. Let’s say there’s a bug that prevents you from using your purchased software and want to fix it yourself and publish a fix online. They could say that it’s a breach of the licensing agreement and copyright and you can’t reverse engineer their software. So essentially your buying something that can be disabled at any time and it’s illegal to fix it.
I also believe it is a permissions issue, which I believe is on the App Store end.
This happened to me also on my kids' iPad through Family Sharing. I ended up resetting the iPad and then redownloading the apps again through Family Sharing and then it worked again. a bit of a hassle
Hi folks,
After reading the thread, at least we knew:
1. This happens to both iOS 12.x and iOS 13.x. It is not related solely to 13.5.
2. This happens to all iOS/iPadOS devices, including iPhone and iPad. Not sure about iPod touch.
2. Delete and reinstall the app fixes this issue, but the same problem may come back again.
3. Apple is not officially acknowledging this issue yet.
Could you guys help me to figure out two things?
1. Does this happen to Apple apps (e.g., Mail, Calendar, Photos, etc.)?
2. Do people without enabling Family Sharing also have this issue?
The YouTube app in my iPhone XS (iOS 13.3.1) had this issue suddenly this morning. I have the Family Sharing enabled and I am the family administrator.
Well, I wish it's not COVID-19 related
Many thanks.
After reading the thread, at least we knew:
1. This happens to both iOS 12.x and iOS 13.x. It is not related solely to 13.5.
2. This happens to all iOS/iPadOS devices, including iPhone and iPad. Not sure about iPod touch.
2. Delete and reinstall the app fixes this issue, but the same problem may come back again.
3. Apple is not officially acknowledging this issue yet.
Could you guys help me to figure out two things?
1. Does this happen to Apple apps (e.g., Mail, Calendar, Photos, etc.)?
2. Do people without enabling Family Sharing also have this issue?
The YouTube app in my iPhone XS (iOS 13.3.1) had this issue suddenly this morning. I have the Family Sharing enabled and I am the family administrator.
Well, I wish it's not COVID-19 related
Many thanks.
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So far, for me with activated family sharing and being the organisator, it only happened to WhatsApp yet.
Well, that is interesting. iOS was first released in 2007, so either that Senior Advisor was lying about working with iOS for over 30 years, or this story is made up. The procedure described is totally unacceptable to any user, and would destroy any evidence, making the bug impossible to reproduce.