iOS 9.3: links in safari not clickable anymore

[Jorellll]

Anyone on 9.2 having this issue?

Yes i do. Using bing as search engine or using google app fixes web search unclickable issue however for other links in chat texts or emails, it should be copy past as web address otherwise it freezes inevitably. Anyone can go to Apple store today to have them file an official bug attack claim ?
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Guess I know what I'm doing on my day off

I have 9.2.1 but i have the same problem. After the problem i tried to download 9.3 via wifi but it doesnt download due to some failure. Anyone else has this too ?

 

[eyeseeyou]

Yes i do. Using bing as search engine or using google app fixes web search unclickable issue however for other links in chat texts or emails, it should be copy past as web address otherwise it freezes inevitably. Anyone can go to Apple store today to have them file an official bug attack claim ?
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I have 9.2.1 but i have the same problem. After the problem i tried to download 9.3 via wifi but it doesnt download due to some failure. Anyone else has this too ?

Sheesh this is bad. Well at least this will save me a few hours

 

[C DM]

Yes i do. Using bing as search engine or using google app fixes web search unclickable issue however for other links in chat texts or emails, it should be copy past as web address otherwise it freezes inevitably. Anyone can go to Apple store today to have them file an official bug attack claim ?
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I have 9.2.1 but i have the same problem. After the problem i tried to download 9.3 via wifi but it doesnt download due to some failure. Anyone else has this too ?

What device?

 

[eyeseeyou]

Sheesh this is bad. Well at least this will save me a few hours

Yes i do. Using bing as search engine or using google app fixes web search unclickable issue however for other links in chat texts or emails, it should be copy past as web address otherwise it freezes inevitably. Anyone can go to Apple store today to have them file an official bug attack claim ?
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I have 9.2.1 but i have the same problem. After the problem i tried to download 9.3 via wifi but it doesnt download due to some failure. Anyone else has this too ?

Strange that my iPad Air 2 which is still on the beta 9.3 isn't seeing this issue

 

[Jorellll]

What device?

Ip6. 9.2.1

 

[C DM]

Well, it does seem that Apple should be aware of this given that a bug that was filed about it all was marked as a duplicate per the discussion (which potentially reveals even more about it) at http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/231581/safari-on-ios-9-2-1-9-3-wont-open-links

Seeing that discussion and a recent Wired article about "universal links" at http://www.wired.com/2016/03/apple-...recall-the-bad-old-days-of-internet-explorer/ I'm wondering if this is all related--that whatever handles these "universal links" (related to other apps) is suddenly malfunctioning in some way for some people, either due to some conflict of some sort or something else.

 

[mchristian]

I have the same problem with my I6+ and the 9.3 update.
I backed up my phone and restored . After the restore ( still on 9.3) everything was working perfectly with Safari.
Once I loaded my backup - exactly the same issue as before... just my 10 cents worth,

[doublepost=1459054786][/doublepost]My friend has stubbornly kept his I6 on the 9.1- His phone and all functions / fearures are working beautifully and is doing all the internet searching for me .. Embarrassing .

 

[maximiliansong]

I had this issue (running IOS 9.2.1 on an iPad Air). Where by google/bing links in Safari/Chrome wouldn't open.
My symptoms were that hard reboots didn't fix it. Chrome would would if I long-tapped & 'opened in new tab'. Requesting a desktop site or disabling JS were less than ideal work arrounds.

The fix for me was:
Settings->General->Reset Network Settings

After which it rebooted, and was then all fine.

I just tried Reset Network Settings. Unfortunately it did not work for me. All issues persisted.

6s 64G

 

[tatabox34]

I can't believe Apple hasn't responded yet. It has been 3 days for me since it started. Some have been having this issue since iOS 9.2.1 and yet still no responce? This is unacceptable.

 

[Jorellll]

I just tried Reset Network Settings. Unfortunately it did not work for me. All issues persisted.

6s 64G

I just upgraded to 9.3 to try if the same problem will continue or not. Nothing has changed. Still links are unclickable. What the heck is apple support doing now ? Fix this goddamn thing please !!!

 

[mac2thefuture]

Same with me - just started this morning, been on 9.3 since the release. Only diff in the UK is daylight saving hours started overnight...???

 

[RimasM]

OK. This morning links issue started happening on my 6s/iPad Air 2. The first thought was that the reason might be move to the summer time this night. Because yesterday I'havent had any issue like that. But now I read that non-clickable links appeared some time ago for other peoples.
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Same with me - just started this morning, been on 9.3 since the release. Only diff in the UK is daylight saving hours started overnight...???

I still believe this is related to the daylight saving time change this night. I've bene using 9.3 since official release (no beta) and there was no such issue on my devices. It appeared this morning only. By the way - wife's 6s is affected too in the same way - worked fine yesterday.

 

[Z3URP13T]

I also noticed like someone else that the name of my wife her iPhone has been changed to a name I gave it about 6 months ago when the iPhone was mine and I am 100% sure that I changed the name because I can see it in the Bluetooth settings of the car. This is very very strange.

 

[fullauto]

Switched to Bing which worked initially but is now doing the same thing. Come on Apple!

 

[Loafyleaf]

This started happening today for me. I have had 9.2.1 installed since it was released, and have NOT installed 9.3. It had downloaded to my phone, but I just kept dismissing the reminder to install it.

The first time I noticed the problem was today when I was using the Lastpass browser and couldn't get links to work in a university portal. Then I tried to press-and-hold the link and it froze the browser. I have since encountered all the same problems people have reported here (google search links not working in safari, links in email and messages freezing the app).

Does anyone think this could be something malicious? It seems odd to me that a reset to factory defaults only temporarily fixes the problem for some people. It also seems odd how clueless Apple is.

 

[maximiliansong]

Switch to Bing also worked for me. With JavaScript on, I now can open links in Bing search results either in the same tab or in a new tap. However, the mail app still doesn't work.

6s 9.3 Offcial

 

[dj1891]

I updated to 9.3 an release day and this has just started happening to me today. Grrr

 

[Jorellll]

I updated to 9.3 an release day and this has just started happening to me today. Grrr

Bottomline, this malicious attack is regardless of the version or device. Somehow it effects wide range and there is no solution (except using bing instead of safari for web searches. However we need to manually copy paste to open a link on texts, mails or news etc. someone contacted with some senior guy at apple support and it seems apple works on it. Its really annoying, i chose apple because it was secure against outside threats. It seems its wrong.

 

[echo1877]

This is unacceptable -- my phone is partially crippled because of this. Can we still downgrade to 9.2.1 or have they stopped signing it? This is serious enough that I'd downgrade and wait until a confirmed fix.

 

[Z3URP13T]

I have read somewhere else that this might be related to an installed extension. Anyone tried disabling as many extensions as possible in Safari. You can disable them from within Safari and then clicking the share icon on the bottom, then clicking ... (more)

 

[echo1877]

Bottomline, this malicious attack is regardless of the version or device. Somehow it effects wide range and there is no solution (except using bing instead of safari for web searches. However we need to manually copy paste to open a link on texts, mails or news etc. someone contacted with some senior guy at apple support and it seems apple works on it. Its really annoying, i chose apple because it was secure against outside threats. It seems its wrong.

Huh? Do you have any evidence that this is an "attack" and not just an Apple bug?

 

[Loafyleaf]

I don't have evidence; I just think it is weird that I have been running 9.2.1 for months and it just started happening to me today!! Can you explain that? I haven't installed 9.3!!! I've also uninstalled every app that I installed recently and did all the other suggested fixes. I have an iPhone 5 so I can't run extensions. Why do you think my suggestion is so outlandish given what I've experienced?

 

[eyeseeyou]

I don't have evidence; I just think it is weird that I have been running 9.2.1 for months and it just started happening to me today!! Can you explain that? I haven't installed 9.3!!! I've also uninstalled every app that I installed recently and did all the other suggested fixes. I have an iPhone 5 so I can't run extensions. Why do you think my suggestion is so outlandish given what I've experienced?

What's even stranger is that it isn't impacting my iPad Air 2 which is still on the beta version of 9.3. What a strange bug

 

[pauleuro3]

I have this problem on my iPad air2 but not yet on my iPhone 6 - I installed 9.3 on the day of release on both devices without participating in the beta programme. I was using my iPad last night without issue - and then this morning no links are working. Tried all the usual fixes - cleared web data, hard reset, restore from backup etc but nothing works. I use Bing as my default search engine and links don't work in that either.
[doublepost=1459069767][/doublepost]Tried this. No change
[doublepost=1459070162][/doublepost]Workaround solution found!

1. In settings/general/safari clear history and website data

2. In settings/general/safari switch off safari suggestions

Now I can follow all links

Update - spoke too soon. It worked a couple of times and now back to before

 

[echo1877]

I don't have evidence; I just think it is weird that I have been running 9.2.1 for months and it just started happening to me today!! Can you explain that? I haven't installed 9.3!!! I've also uninstalled every app that I installed recently and did all the other suggested fixes. I have an iPhone 5 so I can't run extensions. Why do you think my suggestion is so outlandish given what I've experienced?

It's just highly unlikely. iOS is pretty tough to get into -- why do you think there hasn't been a jailbreak in a while?

Obviously a hack is not an impossibility, but I think it's far more likely that this is a bug. Why it suddenly showed up on iOS 9.2.1 I've no idea, but it might mean that some cloud service on the backend is acting up.