“A couple of days after a bug affecting iOS started making the news, Apple has released a fix. iOS 9.3.1, now available on the iPhone and iPad, fixes this bug,” Romain Dillet reports for TechCrunch.
“The changelog is quite short as there’s only one item,” Dillet reports. “‘Fixes an issue that caused apps to be unresponsive after tapping on links in Safari and other apps,’ it says.”
“If you encountered this bug, head over to the Settings app on your iOS device,” Dillet reports. “Then go to General > Software Update and update your device.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: It’s good to see Apple moving so quickly!
Just installed it and it solved the problem! Very happy with Apple’s quick response!
Am I the only one who expects Apple to get it right the first time?
Seems to have fixed my links issue as well! Glad to get this fix, but took close to a week – not cool.
I was also affected by the ‘bug’ and indeed it was very frustrating. That said, Apple’s response was actually quite FAST! Identifying the solution, coding a fix, and testing the fix to make sure it does not cause other problems is actually very time consuming, so a week is actually a very rapid response. [Though it should have been found during the beta testing and does perhaps say something about Quality control – Booking.com is a popular app]
Interesting challenge there: is Apple under an obligation to retest every outside app developer’s response to an OS upgrade? In the name of Quality Control? The mud stuck to Apple, but the Booking.com implementation of the new linking facility seems to have been amazingly shoddy. They should compensate Apple at least for the reputational damage.
I mean, it was only one line of changelog, right?!
smh
From crashing to connecting, only one word describes: “Snappy”.
Battery life on my 6S Plus has dramatically dropped with 9.3. Went into Settings and found things turned on, turn off tons of stuff and it still drops pretty quickly.
Why hasn’t anyone noted that this is so M’soft-like. Instead, Tim gets credit for a quick fix of a bug that should never have been given life on this upgrade. Such double standard is typical of blind lemmings celebrating everything Apple does while trashing all competitors for doing the very same thing. Doubt me? Watch what happens below.
Your right Jay.
What is his right ? please clarify
I just installed in a 6S and Macdailynews still does not work with Java on. Their application or going directly there in Safari.
I just installed the update. The MacDailyNews app still doesn’t work. Headlines load but article pages are blank still.
Addendum: I figured out that my and my wife’s problems with iOS 9.3 and JavaScript is related to my use of the app AdBlock. It worked perfectly before 9.3, but after the update I had to turn off JavaScript to get web sites to load. Whether I had JavaScript on or off though, the MacDailyNews app would not give an article page after clicking the article headline. Just a blank page and a continuous spinning pinwheel in the bar at the top of the screen. I had hoped 9.3.1 would fix this. It did not. Then I got the idea it might be related to AdBlock. I turned AdBlock off and the MDN app could render pages again whether JavaScript was enabled or not. Curiously though I still have the eternally spinning pinwheel. I’ve had an article page open on my iPhone for at least 5 minutes and that wheel never stops. Anyway, I wanted to share what I found.
Cheers everyone,
dslarsen
Got this text from Sprint yesterday, not sure if it was for the 9.3 or 9.3.1 update:
SprintFreeMsg: Your iPhone may be having data connection issues w/ the recent software update. We’re working quickly to fix. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Regret updating to iOS 9.3.1. Everything worked OK on iOS 9 .3 but Yahoo weather does not work on iOS 9 .3 .1 not sure what other apps may not be work working
If everything was fine using 9.3, why in the world would you update to 9.3.1 when you knew the sole change was a fix to the problem you didn’t have?!?