Am I saying that? No. However, I've seen many people (including website) saying it affects all iDevices, something which is not the case.
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Web Links Crashing Safari, Mail, Chrome, and Other Apps on iOS 9.3 [Updated]
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Rules of a Mac Rumors post for an IOS bug.
- Must invoke the name of Steve Jobs
- Must pretend as if bugs never existed prior to today
- Overstate the issue as if their isn't a billion Apple products (Usually a few thousand are effected so percentage wise its insignificant)
- Take on the victim mentality (We does Apple do this to me?)
- State that you run a business (Somehow this is supposed to make you more important than anyone else.
- Refuse viable and useful fixes ("Restore and Setup as new" because you don't want to lose your texts because clearly you're a 14 year old girl)
- Must do nothing and wait for an update (This may happen but generally updates will not fix an issue if the OS is corrupt.)
- Lastly announce to the heavens that you are switching to Samsung (As if they never have any bugs or hardware issues)
Scott Forstall really needs to come back and fix the mess that was wrought upon his baby! iOS has been on the decline since Federighi became software VP and Jony Ive decided to be a software designer.
I see they put out a fix for the activation bug for older devices. I'm gonna make a wild guess that they haven't addressed this painfully crippling issue in that fix.
This issue is seriously making me question Apple. They need to fix this NOW, simple as that. And they need to inform people, not just post automated replies via their Apple Support account on Twitter (which by the way just makes Apple seem totally clueless).
This issue is seriously making me question Apple. They need to fix this NOW, simple as that. And they need to inform people, not just post automated replies via their Apple Support account on Twitter (which by the way just makes Apple seem totally clueless).
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Well on Saturday I thought I was losing my mind when I couldn't click on any web links submitted to me via iMessage. Like delivery notices from Amazon. Links from friends about cats. I have an iPhone 6, 16gb, and about as stock as you can get. And yes I think I updated Booking.com on that same date.
I've deleted Booking.com, turned off Java in Safari, did a hard reboot and I still can not click on any web link in iMessage. Nothing crashes, but nothing happens. The message app just sits there like nothing happened.
Same thing clicking on a news item from the Stocks app. Nothing. Just sits there.
And there are probably other apps that will exhibit similar behavior. So for those MR folks out there that think this is a fairytale, it ain't. But I can live with it until a fix comes out.
I've deleted Booking.com, turned off Java in Safari, did a hard reboot and I still can not click on any web link in iMessage. Nothing crashes, but nothing happens. The message app just sits there like nothing happened.
Same thing clicking on a news item from the Stocks app. Nothing. Just sits there.
And there are probably other apps that will exhibit similar behavior. So for those MR folks out there that think this is a fairytale, it ain't. But I can live with it until a fix comes out.
They suggested it as a fix. My phone is no longer fit for purpose, Apple have a legal obligation to fix my phone. Replacing the phone will likely fix the issue.
Or not given how many people are having issues with this, meaning it could very well not be tied to hardware.
Of course it's not a hardware problem. Would thousands of devices all over the world, with both different hardware and different software, somehow all of a sudden have a collective hardware failure spread out over a few days?
Sure, that doesn't mean it's hardware related or that another phone won't have it of won't develop it.
I've never said it's a hardware issue, I'm just saying replacing the handset may fix the issue as it's clearly only affecting some iPhones. AppleCare suggested this as a short term solution. From a consumer point of view I don't care how they fix it but my phone needs fixing now, and being told they have a fix coming but no date can be given is unacceptable.
You said it likely would fix it when there's nothing really showing one way or another that it would or that even if it would that the issue wouldn't just appear again.
It won't.
Yes, it's only affecting some phones in the way that if only some married people browse porn on their phones, then have their spouses see their browsing history, only those people are affected by divorce.
The issue has nothing to do with the hardware, and everything to do with what software was custom-installed on it.
Well I'm only saying what AppleCare suggested. How can you be so sure it's not a hardware issue? It could easily be a combination of hardware and software configuration.
It's an iOS software bug triggered by some third-party apps. It has bupkis to do with the hardware.
Not sure why this bug gets its own news post, given that it isn't even universal.
My 5S, iPad Mini, or wife's 6S does not have this bug- it is clearly a dodgy install, and likely fixed through a restore.
Plenty of other bugs out there that can be limited to a few people...
My 5S, iPad Mini, or wife's 6S does not have this bug- it is clearly a dodgy install, and likely fixed through a restore.
Plenty of other bugs out there that can be limited to a few people...
Thanks for letting us know...
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I am not saying the poster soupcan was implying this, but it gets pretty annoying when someone posts a problem with an OS, only to have people reply saying that they did not experience this problem, so it must be user error, bad hardware, or that they must be doing it wrong. Which, is usually not true in my experience.
It happened a lot when I posted issues with the ATV4 when it first came out.
I can almost guarantee it isn't since you can get any device to reproduce it.
From the point that the bug starts to show signs, your milage may vary as far as malfunctioning goes. Software, especially a process dedicated to linking input from multiple points across the operating system, is more complex than a simple "if x then y" scenario, unfortunately.
When you're affected, it's a fairly massive issue — it isn't easy for the individual to fix, and it affects all sorts of basic functionality.
So, yeah, it absolutely deserves a news post.
No...you can't confirm that this issue is caused by that app because there are hundreds of us who have the issue who have never had the booking.com app installed on our devices.
You're making the leap from "booking.com is a cause for the bug" to "booking.com is the only cause for the bug".
The booking.com app is/was absolutely one of the triggers.
But fairly widespread and fairly bad. Based on many discussions about this restores don't seem to help in most cases.