I'm guessing there are 9 people affected by this Safari bug, probably same 9 people with bent iphones
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Web Links Crashing Safari, Mail, Chrome, and Other Apps on iOS 9.3 [Updated]
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I know lots of people are complaining, just like lots of people complained about bent iphones (bendgate) before but Apple's official response was only 9 people complained.
I know lots of people are complaining, just like lots of people complained about bent iphones (bendgate) before but Apple's official response was only 9 people complained.
Where's apples official response?
I swear news like this all over is just click-bait as usual. Gotta get that ad revenue somehow, right?
I'm guessing there are 9 people affected by this Safari bug, probably same 9 people with bent iphones
I'm usually not the one who complains about random things, but this one did hit me, and it's extremely annoying.
Sure, I can use other browsers (some work, like Google's own search app) and other Mail apps (I already use Spark so the Mail issue doesn't affect me), but it's far from ideal.
I have done a quick poll in my immediate surroundings: out of 10 people, 4 have the issue, with various kinds of iPhones and iOS 9.2.1 as well als 9.3.
So if I get 40%, and @stroughtonsmith gets 30% in his poll where 889 people participated (https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/714109366924931073) there must be something going on!
Yeah, cause twitter is the world.... And it ABSOLUTELY reflects a proper sampling of people having the issue, everyone not having this are obvious slackers who do nothing all day long.
It's a bug that slipped through Beta because it shows up in an edge case, there is a solution; that's it. The rest is just a huge pile of whining.
That doesn't mean it's not affecting a lot of people or that its effects aren't bad ones or that it's not newsworthy or worthy of discussion.
It has nothing to do with the betas as it's also appearing on 9.2.1.
Also, it's legitimate for people to whine, as we now have a crippled product. And there is no solution, just workarounds (unacceptable ones at that).
It's a huge freaking bug that slipped through and it is very widely reported. There isn't a solution yet!
The thing is that if you're being sold seamless operation for 699+€ then you kind of expect it. Instead you have to spend your time looking for workarounds and reading forum comments and getting pissed off enough to finally reply to one. Especially as they are selling the iPads as laptop replacements for "real work" then not being able to open links on your work machine is a pretty big deal.
I have the problem both with my iPad and iPhone. Contacted Apple Support and they just told me to wait it out.
Poll's are nice and all, but anyone of those could be trolls. Not saying the problem is around, just skeptical of polls. But, I hope whoever is effected gets their issues resolved.
You seem to know everything about it and still put two question marks. If you don't get the message the first time, no way you can understand it even after several tries
By the way, do you think Apple will take care of this or given that is just 0,2% they won't give a damn? Hope for those "millions" you're not supposed to decide for them
Haven't updated yet, and thanks to thins, i won't either for a while..
Although this stuff it hard to do, do u think there is a deranged employee in the back of Cupertino, who is not thinking right now ?
For someone like me, it seems so obvious...... when u program to double check your work.... but for what there its "opps..... oh well we'll leave that for next update." but hey, in the meantine we get great press.
I don't mind mistakes, i make them myself, but i do at least do corrections. weather its to the same mistake, or make good with "ok... what happens what i this link" "now what should prevent me from doing this"
Although this stuff it hard to do, do u think there is a deranged employee in the back of Cupertino, who is not thinking right now ?
For someone like me, it seems so obvious...... when u program to double check your work.... but for what there its "opps..... oh well we'll leave that for next update." but hey, in the meantine we get great press.
I don't mind mistakes, i make them myself, but i do at least do corrections. weather its to the same mistake, or make good with "ok... what happens what i this link" "now what should prevent me from doing this"
Worked for me too (though I skipped steps 4-12 because they seemed like voodoo). I also had the Booking.com app installed.
Direct link to noelg_77's post: https://discussions.apple.com/message/29991645#29991645
Didn't work for me.. I even included the 'voodoo' steps and I repeated the whole process twice just for good measure.
Apple is working on a fix for iOS bug that causes tapping links to crash iPhones
Update: Apple says it’s working on a software fix for the issue:
We are aware of this issue, and we will release a fix in a software update soon.
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We finally got our official Apple statement...
Thanks to everyone explaining why this isn't a sandbox failure.
How do I get into that? They've not fixed ANY of the bugs I've reported since I first moved to iOS 9 via new devices. Both cosmetic and functional bugs. Both obscure AND obvious and repeatable. I've bitched about them here plenty as well because I'm fed up with spending hundreds of dollars on a thing that behaves badly because Apple no longer cares about fine details like usability testing, GUI excellence, and bug fixing before release and "NEW VERSION!!!".
It's clear that the current leadership doesn't care about things as much as Jobs. He sounded like a major jerk, even sounded somewhat narcissistic (or worse), and totally opposite of what I think is "good people". BUT the first time I felt any identification with stories of him was the former employee who stated that he thought Jobs was often extremely frustrated about finding that no one else seemed to care about things as much as he did. Who knows what that was really about or if it was an accurate impression, but damn is it relatable for me personally!!
Apple has clearly abandoned its decades of research to focus on surface features. This is not the company that won me over with iPhone (pre-iOS 7) and Snow Leopard.
How do I get into that? They've not fixed ANY of the bugs I've reported since I first moved to iOS 9 via new devices. Both cosmetic and functional bugs. Both obscure AND obvious and repeatable. I've bitched about them here plenty as well because I'm fed up with spending hundreds of dollars on a thing that behaves badly because Apple no longer cares about fine details like usability testing, GUI excellence, and bug fixing before release and "NEW VERSION!!!".
It's clear that the current leadership doesn't care about things as much as Jobs. He sounded like a major jerk, even sounded somewhat narcissistic (or worse), and totally opposite of what I think is "good people". BUT the first time I felt any identification with stories of him was the former employee who stated that he thought Jobs was often extremely frustrated about finding that no one else seemed to care about things as much as he did. Who knows what that was really about or if it was an accurate impression, but damn is it relatable for me personally!!
Apple has clearly abandoned its decades of research to focus on surface features. This is not the company that won me over with iPhone (pre-iOS 7) and Snow Leopard.
I also have this issue with my iPhone 5s running iOS9.3 (which has been working for a few days and then this link bug happened on Sunday). I don't have this issue (yet) on my iPad mini2 running iOS9.3. I sure hope indeed that Apple gets a fix out the door later this week. This bug is a huge problem in order to operate the app! I was able to use the build-in browser for both Spark e-mail and Tweetbot4 which works for a bit. But doesn't resolve all 'allow cookies' popups on various websites. The Safari > search in Bing does work to open the same website and allowing the cookies on a website. So odd..
I agree with you 100%.
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Apple just admitted that they were aware of the issue.
"Edge Case"? What's an "Edge Case"? I call it normal use.
The edge case is on the developer side, where app developers who create an excessively large deep link information file cause the service to crash on end users' phones.
The only way this would have been found in beta testing for any version of iOS 9 is if a developer had made this mistake while beta testing was underway, and it does seem that there were a few instances where it was reported prior to 9.3 beta testing. Ideally Apple would have built in a means of handling these files if they are too large, but it's hard to foresee all the ways a user or developer will do something wrong. It's possible that even if the crashes were reported in beta testing that the developer who was causing the crash fixed their file, rendering the bug unreproducible by Apple. This would be extremely difficult to find in testing.
Apple Support told me last Friday the same. Where is the news?
They are painfully slow fixing this mess.
So it happened prior to the 9.3 beta testing, but it was ignored. Like I said: "Screw it, Ship it".
No one at Apple thought to account for these files if they were too large? Perhaps they did, but the fix didn't make it into 9.3: "Screw it, Ship it."
The App Store review process failed here too. If you're going to have these features in apps/iOS, the guidelines need to be well-defined and the QC process needs to be much more thorough. Apple needs to slow things way down on Software and focus on stability/reliability.
Or, iOS needs a way to run in "safe mode" or repair itself on the device. Again, Apple has a cash horde to do anything. Unfortunately, their priorities are no longer software stability/quality. Instead, it's all about features, NEW VERSION, etc....
I'm going on 3 days that Safari on my iPhone 6s has not been usable. Pathetic.
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The news is that's all we get for right now until Apple releases a software update. It had better come sometime today...