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iPhone Apps crashing December 2

Paddle1 said:
Do you need to receive a local notification to trigger the issue?
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People are saying just setting the time to 12:15 triggers it.

Also, it seems like the cause of the bug is notifications that are triggered at a specific time daily. So if you have an app that notifies you every morning at 8:00 AM for ex, keeping notifications on for that app will cause your phone to respring when the bug is activated.
 
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Paddle1 said:
Do you need to receive a local notification to trigger the issue?
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Yes. So you can disable notifications for a quick fix til Apple releases a patch. I expect it will come very shortly, as this is pretty bad.

Edit: maybe not quite! (see above.)
 
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Does this involve a black screen with a spinning wheel and then asked to put password in? Im in Australia and this has started for me when I woke this morning. I thought I might need to install the update so did that and then it was even worse, cant really use my phone at all now...really frustrating!
 
KayKay78 said:
Does this involve a black screen with a spinning wheel and then asked to put password in? Im in Australia and this has started for me when I woke this morning. I thought I might need to install the update so did that and then it was even worse, cant really use my phone at all now...really frustrating!
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turn off notifications
 
KayKay78 said:
Does this involve a black screen with a spinning wheel and then asked to put password in? Im in Australia and this has started for me when I woke this morning. I thought I might need to install the update so did that and then it was even worse, cant really use my phone at all now...really frustrating!
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Yes. That’s it. People are suggesting Best work around is to turn of notifications. Apparently the problem is called respring after springboard which is the app that launches the other apps.
 
What is a local notification? What's the difference from any other notification?

I'm guessing disabling notifications can prevent this? Which apps are safe to keep notifications on for? Phone, Messages? The alarm in Clock?
 
Same Problem here. Turning off all notifications (except phone, messages and WhatsApp) fixed it for me.
 
Sorig said:
What is a local notification? What's the difference from any other notification?

I'm guessing disabling notifications can prevent this? Which apps are safe to keep notifications on for? Phone, Messages? The alarm in Clock?
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I believe it's a notification that an app has prescheduled on the device itself for a certain time, such as a reminder of some kind.
 
Paddle1 said:
I believe it's a notification that an app has prescheduled on the device itself for a certain time, such as a reminder of some kind.
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I think it has to do with the type of notification. Normal notifications for apps like facebook messenger are triggered by the notification server sending data to your phone to trigger the notification, but 'local notifications' are time-based
 
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Does anyone know if this affects the clock and alarm? I have to be up for work early and i'd rather not oversleep or have my phone become ****ed up by it
 
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C DM said:
Given that it's almost December 2nd on the east coast of United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East, etc. are already there and it seems like we'd see way more posts about it (even if it's night time in a lot of those places) if this was really something widespread. Perhaps I'm off on this, but hopefully I'm not.
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Still think iOS 11 is okay?
 
Planet of the Apps. The apps are taking revenge. It's 'app'ocalyptic apocalypse.

In India, I've seen two December 2 12:15s, the AM and 30 mins ago, PM as well. Nothing happened. Oh well. Drab life these days.
 
hlovatt said:
Yes. That’s it. People are suggesting Best work around is to turn of notifications. Apparently the problem is called respring after springboard which is the app that launches the other apps.
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Ok thanks for that
 
I don’t think that turns notifications off. It just hide previews. I did a test with a nitification in the Due app and the notification still came through even with previews set to never.

It looks like the only way to turn off all notifications in iOS 11 is to flip the toggles app by app.

I preemptively did so on the apps I know of that have local time based notifications. Five minutes to go before I hit 12:15 on the West Coast so we will see what happens.
 
Beards said:
Ok... So how do we do the update to 11.2 if the phone keeps doing a respring?
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I am trying with my iPhone by changing the date to Dec 1st and disabling all notifications on my iPad.

Hopefully fingers crossed one or both methods work with the update process.

Then hopefully this nasty little bug is squashed for good.

Edit - will post results of Software Updates on iPad and iPhone to iOS 11.2
 
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hlovatt said:
All apps crashing today, December 2, in Australia after about 10 seconds of use. Genius Bar says its a software fault and they are overrun. Genius Bar doesn’t know when there will be a fix. Most apps start working again if you change date to November 28!
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YES SAME IM from singapore and 2nd december on the iphone seems to be causing bugs PLEASE CHANGE YOUR DATES to an earlier date to save yourself from the trouble!
 
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