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Can you please elaborate why a Google Server or Apple Server interfere with my iOS Device? I don't see a point there.
What I find weird is that if you "request desktop site" it functions properly. Can anyone test this also.
You are probably right ...I hope ;-) Though I wonder why it affects my iPad Mini and not iPhone 6 , yet..
I honestly have no idea. I'm going by process of elimination. If it just started happening to people running iOS 9.2.1 and older, then that is VERY revealing. Those are existing, unmodified versions that have never had this issue as far as we know. What could have caused this sudden issue?
Either this is some old date related bug that was there for a long time but was activated a couple of days ago, OR it is some cloud server acting up and causing all of these devices to do this at the same time. I can't really think of a third option, and personally my money is on the cloud server theory.
I found the Google app (not Chrome, really Google) to work fine. It's a bit quirky but at least it doesn't crash and opens all links.
It could be related to apps in the sense of extensions and universal links, as I've mentioned at https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...lickable-anymore.1962471/page-9#post-22724195
There are a lot of ways! For example there are the preload (in a simply words, Apple preload in your iOS every links), Apple push a list of fraudolent sites to your iOS devices, there are suggestions based on the site you are visiting etc.. and every app as an internal url scheme, my opinion is a daemon or a certificate who's broken and, if your device use it, iOS will not load the link on some domains (external usually).
It's almost mystical.
I agree with you: The sudden happening of this issue makes it "hard" to debug.
But may I ask you? If a cloud problem is the root cause of this issue: Why aren't all the cloud connected devices affected similarly?
Take me for an example:
iPad Pro has the defect since yesterday.
iPhone 5s has the defect since today (at noon).
both devices have nearly the same configuration. Same Wifi network etc.
Apple just needs to revert back to an older version of the "filter lists" for example and push it to the devices.
By the way: Users should be able to opt out of such kind of "background services".
Actually, a cloud server issue would very easily explain why it's not a universal issue. Whatever the service is, I promise you there is more than one server actually doing the work. It is very typical for some servers to misbehave while others continue to function properly.
That would cause the problem to present itself as a random issue that's present on some devices and absent from others.
I have Booking.com app installed. Before 9.3 update. It seems (at least to me) that the only Booking's fault (if any) is using shared web credentials storage daemon and WebKit engine - the things too many apps are "guilty" of, just because it's Apple's policy for iOS: use our browser engine and credentials storage or go away.
Is also sunday... and I think the problem is not push to your device the fix but fix it on the server side and then push the fix to the devices.
For example, a long press on a email from amzon with amazon link, open the pop-up with "Open in Amazon" option, that usually, for a link to a XYZ website there isn't...and in order to make this, every link is "mapped/traced" by iOS. There are daemons for this things that communicate with -I think- certicated from Apple (due to security check). And there somethings went wrong, also my iPad mini 4 was fine ten hours ago, now not. And my iPhone 6S hasn't (still) the bug.
The funny thing is the I went to sleep with the iPad links working, opened it in the morning, I've only changed the wallpaper, then launched mail and boom () the links just not work anymore. Is not a 9.3 update issue on the iphones.
After this issue all I can say is that iOS 10 adoption rate wil raise veeery sloooow, ahah
I would like to, but I can't select all and copy / paste. The Settings App freezes.
It just stays int that state, can't move cursors etc.
That is just so lame. I think back to the John Gruber interview from a few weeks ago where he was telling Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi that he felt there was a general decline in Apple's software quality and that there are far more bugs nowadays than there used to be. It is very very true -- I run into iOS bugs virtually every day nowadays.