game center broken in ios 9

SO ****** frustrating, this has been happening since the first update, there have been another 2 since, how in gods name didn't they see this ??

Apple should do something to compensate us we are the real gamers users of games suffered a lot with that problem and Apple looks like ignoring it!!! Really!

the only way to get it back functioning is to do a clean upgrade I erase all my data and begin from a scratch really apple??

I Am giving this issue Just two more days and then I will sell my Iphone and get a HTC we are no more fools Appple.

YEah you are **** right viola , as a gamers we played hard to achieve this level , but this freaking ios9 update made us to start all te games from the scratch . Totally nuts it is . Gamers was like oh *** . We need our game center to be fixed within this week or else we are going to sell our iphone ipa whatever starting with "i" . Better will buy android

I had this problem on my iPhone 4S but public beta 3 of 9.1 solved the problem.

Good news.

paulfrommoncure, do you check game center on 9.1 beta 3 by yourself?

but when 9.1 will release? in winter? Is it possible to move to 9.1 beta 3 now for all users?

My understanding (I could be very wrong here) is that Apple most likely did know about it. However, in order to maintain the release of the iPhone 6S line, they pushed it anyway.

Why would a company hold off on the release of there next primary device because of something that is not effecting every single test? They gambled, and lost.

Given my experience with Apple, my 5th generation iPod is the first, and LAST Apple product I will get. iOS 8 was so unstable throughout it's life on it that I wished I could go back to 7.

iOS 9 is a step in the right direction, however Game Center being broken kills half of my usage. I use my iPod for music and games.

To make matters worse, the new music app no longer shows all my music. Anything that I have partial albums or single songs of will not be listed under artists. I have them set up as a compilation, but to fix this I know of only two options.

1. Apple brings back listing compilation music by artists.

2. I make a playlist for every artist.

Not a highlight to have to make over 100 playlists.

So Apple has now hindered the other half of my usage.

At this point, I look at Apple wreaking about 80% of my usage/enjoyment of my iPod.

Believe me, I can go into specifics of issues. They all started with iOS 8, and I have started regretting updating to iOS 8, and in relation ever buying an iPod in the first place.

paulfrommoncure, have you tested restoring from a backup? Is this with a clean install or an update?

denisamir, I would guess late October or early November. This is based off what happend with iOS 8. There was only about a month between the release 8 and 8.1.

It is fail from Apple. Error is in backup. I have same problem. When I give the backup to other iPhone, so the problem persists. When I deleted 30 games from 40, CG start after one minute. But I lost gaming progress :-( Thank you Apple for your inactivity 😟

Hi paulfrommoncure,

So game center works fine with IOS 9.1 beta 3 ? I tried withe beta 1 and beta 2 without success.

Does anyone else try to update to IOS 9.1 beta 3 ?

Hi NGW1031982

Yes Apple is aware of this problem,they collected backup from users experiencing this problem including myself to try to fix the problem.

Some people seem to be getting a bit too worked up over this.

iOS is a complicated system and it will never be bug free. Apple are aware of the problem and working on a fix - and that's pretty much all we can ask of them. Most games still work and have just lost Game Centre functionality so it's not a huge deal.

If you really want to avoid bugs then don't update to the latest version of iOS straight away. Moving to Android where there is no Game Centre, and where you don't get to transfer an entire backup of your device to each new device you get doesn't sound like a very rational move to me.

The first part, I agree. My personal decision was made about a year ago and involves other reasons. This recent issue is just one more to add until it's fixed.

However, saying Android won't let you make a backup and restore between devices is just wrong. I have used and am using an Android device, and have friends who use multiple devices and upgraded devices over the years. The transfer process is simple with Lollipop. Previous versions of Android had issues with it, however with Lollipop they are no worse then they are on iOS.

I personally use an Windows Phone, Apple iPod, and an old Android phone as a tablet. To top it off, the Android phone is a LG, one of the so called more difficult to work with devices. My Windows Phone is dev unlocked, and my LG is rooted with a custom ROM.

My iPod is pure stock. No modifications to the code Apple puts out there.

I would like to think I have experience with technological devices, and I do try to keep an unbiased opinion when issues arise.

So please don't say something that isen't true about any device or platform.

I don't care if it's Apple, Google, Microsoft, or any other platform. The facts are what's important here.

As for anyone wanting to jump ship because of the Game Center issue, that's your choice. Sure it might seem rash to some people here, however in the end it's your choice, and yours alone. Just as it's my choice to keep using my iPod with the Game center issue.

NGW1031982 wrote:

However, saying Android won't let you make a backup and restore between devices is just wrong. I have used and am using an Android device, and have friends who use multiple devices and upgraded devices over the years. The transfer process is simple with Lollipop. Previous versions of Android had issues with it, however with Lollipop they are no worse then they are on iOS.

I stand corrected.

I was talking from my experience with my kids' Android tablets and phones where you could transfer lots of things, but I still had to go and set up every email account from scratch and they lost all of the progress in their games etc. It's good to know that they've fixed that, because it was one barrier to me ever considering Android.

I Already contacted both game developer and apple senior engineers but the problem still exist I play many games like boom beach , contest of champions and others some effected by that problem others not but the main concern that lot of people are suffering without any solution even if Apple are working on solution or whatever We will get kicked out of our task forces or allies and lose our game points due to inactivity and No one will care about that!! Any record any evidence that Apple software cuase that issue and we don't get the blame on this??

I just did the update right to IOS 9.02. Never did any beta or any other IOS 9 before that. I have the same problem on my Ipad 2. The game center will come up eventually but VERY slow. Also Game Center in Settings will come up but VERY slow. I tried logging in and logging back out. That didn't work. Game Center App and Game Center Settings work fine on my Iphone 5s and work fine for my husband on his Ipad 3rd Gen.

Please fix!

My fiancé and I both have the iPhone 6 64GB!!! l upgraded to iOS 9 then 9.0.1 I am afraid to go to 9.0.2 I think i'm going to have to upgrade my operating system on my MacBook Pro from Yosemite to OS X El Diablo? After the disaster of these iPhone updates it horrifies me to upgrade my Mac! My fiancé did not upgrade her iPhone as I told her not to! She's running 8. whatever... She has had problems with her ringtones and I was having problems with dropped calls while using iOS 8. My upgrade to iOS 9 was flawless for the first couple of days then Game Center stopped working, I lost data, thinking that 9.0.1 would fix my problems I updated only to gain all of the other problems reported! Now my iPhone is slow, laggy, freezing up, crashing, I lost all my game data $$$ etc... A lot of these problems are due to iOS 9 but some of the problems like lost ringtones, dropped calls etc... started with iOS 8! Apple is on a downward spiral, sometimes you need to leave things alone. What I mean really is how do you release an operating system that has so many problems? It destroys people's phones all their data and has huge security breaches? Did they make it then release it that day? Nobody tried it out, I mean you only had to put it on your phone for a couple of days to find all the problems with it!!! Sorry about the rant I was trying to help answer your question!!! I'm just Angry right now and tired of this S#%T!!! I restored my iPhone to a previous back up and operating system it just changed it to 9.0.1?

Game Center started working again but all of my data was still lost so I tried another back up and it went back to no Game Center no data and still 9.0.1? And that's how it's been ever since no Restore that I've tried has fixed it! I'm constantly having to hold the reset buttons due to freezing up doing simple things like trying to erase an app. It also erased half of my text messages a lot of my contact info and who knows what else!!! Maybe I'll go to a 9.0.2 and then I'll come back and complain about that? Anyway I'll shut up now!!!