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game center broken in ios 9

Anyone else seeing this? I saw this during the beta but in the last beta it would actually load eventually. But now it doesn't do anything. Just sits on the white screen. It works perfectly fine on my iPad Mini 3, though.

iPhone 5s, iOS 9

Posted on Sep 16, 2015 12:32 PM

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Posted on Sep 16, 2015 11:57 PM

Same problem here, I can not open game center, I got a blank screen. In settings menu I can not access to game center settings either, it freezes.

It worked fine on IOS 8.4.1.

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Sep 27, 2015 6:29 PM in response to ahwm

Looks like I spoke too soon. After rebooting (just a normal shut down and power on, not a reset) Game Center initially reconnects (about a minute after startup). I can then play a game that uses GC (for multiplayer in this case) for about 5-10mins, then it locks up again and games can no longer use it (and going into GC in settings or the GC App shows a blank screen).


Really hope Apple fix this soon!

Sep 27, 2015 8:37 PM in response to StevePW

Wow, since I deleted my old apps that were not compatible, I am having no problem. Did you click on each app on your iPad to see if it will delete? You don't have to delete it, just make them wiggle and see if you can delete it when you click on the x. If you get the message do you really want to delete then cancel it. When I did that, I found several apps that clicking on the x did nothing. I then went to my computer into iTunes and deleted them. Since I did that I have had no problem. I read somewhere that the biggest reason for the white screen is that an app is hung up. Hope this helps.

Sep 27, 2015 9:57 PM in response to Michsunshine

I went ahead and logged back into Game Center to find out about this, and every app except one came up.

I removed the one app, and I still have the issue. Restarting my iPod made no difference.


This might work for some, but it did not work for me at all. I lost my saved game data, and now after spending a good half hour trying to get it back, Apple verified it being gone forever. Fortunately, I wasn't far in the game, but its still annoying.

Sep 27, 2015 11:33 PM in response to pehzao

Hola pehzao, ojala que puedes entender espanol, no puedo hablar portuguese 😀

La problema aparece cuando haces un (restore) a tus datos en iOS9 o haces un actualización a tu iOS de 8.x a 9.x !

Hasta ahora, la unica manera para hacer lo funcionar bien, es cuando borras tus datos totalmente, y impieza con iOS 9.x fresco (sin tus datos).

Los tecnicos de Apple nos decimeos que pronto van a librar un actualización para fijar esta problema (ojala con 9.0.2 o 9.0.3).

Tenemos que esperar ahora ...

Sep 28, 2015 3:23 AM in response to Michsunshine

MY iPad mini has been restoring from an iCloud backup since last Tuesday! I can't delete anything because it keeps putting everything back in as it restores. There has to be an actual fix for the problem besides forced-deletion of apps. I have definitely learned a few things in this fiasco. never again will I update iOS unil it's been out a couple weeks.

Sep 28, 2015 8:44 PM in response to ahwm

Same issue here since the iOS 9 update, and the 9.0.1 update . Can't access game center from the settings area or from the GC icon on my iPhone 4S. It is working fine on my iPad 2. Nothing but freezing from Settings, and a white blank screen from the GC icon. It's also causing any game I use that uses GC to freeze. Very annoying!!!

Sep 29, 2015 11:23 PM in response to denisamir

There won't be a fix until there is an iOS update.

The only way to really help against this kind of thing from happening again would be to separate the apps bundled with iOS from iOS.

From there, Apple could simply mark them as non-removable. This would allow these things to be updated outside the OS updates.

In addition, because they would most likely be seen as extensions to iOS, they could be updated more regularly for these kings of bugs, and if need be or wanted, completely re-written from the ground up. The user would never know the difference with the exception of being able to update them through the app store.

Apple seems all to quick to integrate apps into iOS, however if anything goes wrong (like this) it takes them an extremely long amount of time to fix them because of the integration.

game center broken in ios 9

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