Why should there be any apologies? An app should not be able to have such an impact. There is a design flaw that caused this.
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Web Links Crashing Safari, Mail, Chrome, and Other Apps on iOS 9.3 [Updated]
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Why should there be any apologies? An app should not be able to have such an impact. There is a design flaw that caused this.
technically one could still blame Apple for even allowing such a thing in the first place
I installed 9.3 on my iPad 4 the day after it was available (probably foolish, I know) and have used it extensively since without a single incident. Sounds like a pretty acute trigger may be involved here.
Whatever version text copy/cut/paste was added, Mail became a crash monster. Was that iOS 5? I was in love with my iPhone until then. Then it got ... Uh... Dented. After iOS 6.x... Things were fine. I loved that one. Then iOS 7 ruined everything.
Freedom of speech has nothing to do with private websites. You have the freedom to not be jailed for speech. You have the freedom to speak. You do not have the right to be heard.
FULLY FREAKING AGREED!!
So, what happened to sand boxing stopping crap like this?
question from a non-developer: how can a sandboxed app have such a huge impact on Safari and the OS in general?
People suffering from this issue are really only suffering from OCD. /s.
This warrants my obligatory link to iOS 9 UI failures that go unaddressed for 5 months (or possibly much longer)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVQFi5tAhOgeBCheLWnovZExMXFRhQnu-
This warrants my obligatory link to iOS 9 UI failures that go unaddressed for 5 months (or possibly much longer)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVQFi5tAhOgeBCheLWnovZExMXFRhQnu-
Yeah, as if iOS 6 doesn't exist anymore. I still have it on a 4S and after using it for 3.5 years, I haven't seen anything this bad and there haven't been this many issues this frequently. It's not revisionist or history, I have it in my hand right now and I can observe it next to iOS 9.
You always say this but others excuse iOS 9's bugs for it being a newer complex OS. If that's the case, why does iOS 6 do better than the 2.0 software when iOS 6 is newer and more advanced than it?
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The problem is, Apple doesn't get credit for the things they do right. Somebody else did it first, it's so simple it should be expected, it doesn't matter much, etc. Apple gets all the credit for things that go wrong. Booking.com just used what Apple wanted them to use, this kind of thing should never happen on an iPhone, Tim Cook is incompetent, etc.
It's just easier to blame one company than to actually figure out the nuances of a problem. Apple almost always bears some of the responsibility in situations like this, but many people never want to go any farther than that.
My iPad before his issue was crashing from time to time. Two alarms on my iPhone the other day failed to sound! The first issue is helped by Safari remembering my recent tabs, but the second issue seemed to be more problematic.
Apple certainly isn't perfect so until it is I wish it would shut up about PC and Android.
Apple certainly isn't perfect so until it is I wish it would shut up about PC and Android.
What's the point in posting this? A huge number of users is affected rendering their iOS devices useless. And Apple remains silent providing zero support.
I had this. It took about 30-40 minutes to get out of it. I tried iTunes in the middle of that cycle, but I just got the "enter your password on the phone" message, so that was useless, although it finally stopped rebooting about 5-10 minutes after I unplugged it from iTunes, so I don't know if it was related.
No. Mac OS 7.2.1 was the most decrepit OS every complied by Apple. Far worse than any iOS build.
Love comments like these. As if you know what Apple is doing or lack there of. First rule of technical support, you give it a few hours to resolve itself while looking into the issue. What do you know, the solution presents itself ala booking.com app. Now they can delve further into WTF happened and how to prevent it in the future.
Software bugs pop up. **** happens. Life will go on. It's how things are going to be now and it's something you better get used to in our constantly connected life.
I early jumped in to update my iPad Air today, glad I decided to hold back.
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One thing we do know, it doesn't just work anymore.
It could be several apps, there could be a api issue.
Given that people with iOS versions prior to iOS 9.3 are affected as well, it doesn't seem like it's related to that latest release specifically.
Quit being dramatic. It seems to be limited to people using the booking.com app or perhaps a small subset of apps, but it's clearly not that widespread. That's not a "huge number" and the devices are not "useless." Why do you insist on exaggerating so much? Remember that video a while back where the woman didn't have an appointment at the genius bar and lost it, screaming about her outrage and trying to make a scene and ended up looking like a weirdo? Yeah, that.
I'm not sure this has anything to do with 9.3 or the Booking app. I had the 9.3 beta for, what, 7 weeks, no issues. I had 9.3 since Tuesday, no issues. Yesterday this started. Mail links and direct Safari with Google fail. If I change Safari to Bing or Yahoo, the browser works. Mail is still iffy.
I fear something else is going on here....
I fear something else is going on here....
I'm convinced Apple doesn't do any user testing outside their bubble of an office.
This was related to the deep linking process that allows you to move from a page on the website to the associated view in an app and vice versa, and other various routing for apps. This wasn't caused necessarily by the app, but a system process that was impacted by the legit, but naive use of a set of APIs, by another app.
They were pairing a lot of data and it seems like no one has ever added that amount before - nor was it intended to have been used in that fashion. The iOS process should have been able to preemptively anticipate the situation or just be able to do it, but because of a bug or unexpected result, the process was thrown into an unstable state.
Not only do apps do weird things in unexpected states, a system process like that spans lower than apps meaning its failure to work in the Bookings app made it unstable when handling routes for the Quora app. Thus, either Quora would get invalid information and crash because it should have never gotten that result, or iOS itself would respond to the garbled data and kill Quora on its own.
That's a basic overview without any real deep searching of information, but generally that's how things like this work.
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Just check #AppleSupport on twitter and let's see if you are going to write the same things posted above
Because most people want to cry about issues that aren't even there most of the time