IOS 9 - how to get rid of or turn off Game Center

What I found that works for me is to go to settings>notifications>game center and shut off notifications.

The only thing that worked for me is to turn it on low power mode....

What a pain. Cmon Apple, You're better than this.

that sounds like an interesting solution, thanks! A pain yes, but ...you are very correct about Apple being better than this. I don't care how strong a brand might be, there is always room for best practices. While many will disagree with me I become bored very easily with devices that make silly demands of me.

I Turned off cellular data for the game and the Game Center does not come up any more on 9.0.2

Yesterday, I updated my iPad 4 to iOS 9.02 and now I'm getting Game Center pop up nags when I play my Scrabble App. Game Center is turned off on my iPad and I don't have the cellular data option as my iPad is WiFi only. Btw, I did a clean restore and update on my iPad.

I'm wondering if it's the Build that I got for my particular area. I'm in Ontario, Canada.

I've submitted Feedback to Apple. Please do this also so that we can get this fixed.

TThank you so much! I have tried every suggested fix since iOS 9 and this is the only thing that works. The little setting was hidden away at the very bottom of my iPad Sudoku game options and iswitching it off worked. Thank you so much. Now if only there was a control on the iPhone version of the same game!

Very simple fix: Before you start your game turn off cellular data (if you have it) and WI-FI.

No offense, but that isn't a solution. It is apparent, now, that many 'features' in IOS9 are actually ill conceived little methods by Apple to further monetize their 'free' operating system. You see, it isn't really free. It's like a hungry little beast constantly pushing you to feed it. It eats money. Your money. I suppose this particular 'feature' (beating the IPad owner over the head with Game Center) is designed to get you to sign up for it, become more engaged in the 'game' thing and buy stuff. Right? And, what other appliance do you own that is so annoying? Certainly not the good old coffee maker, or the crock pot. And, as it turns out at my home, not my Surface or Asus Android tablets. So now my Grandson and I give those the bulk of our time because, as he said (he's five) 'grandpa, game center pop ups are boring'. Brilliant! The IPad sits there but he just doesn't turn it on much.

How's that feedback to Apple thing coming along? Yawn. I think I hear crickets at Apple World HQ.

LOL, my numerous Feedback to Apple goes to Cloud Neverland.

Since downgrading to iOS 8.4 is forbidden and impossible unless someone figures out a hack (one day some bright hacker will), we are stuck with annoying new bugs with each update.

The best thing to do when you update and the Game Center bug is finally squashed, don't bother updating the iOS anymore. Your apps will still work for quite some time. You most definitely will get continuous Apple nag notifications to update, but try to resist lol.

I bought my iPhone and iPad outright and it wasn't cheap and I want it to "JUST WORK" like Apple used to claim. I expect better iOS testing by Apple software engineers before being release to the general public. It's quite disheartening to constantly be searching for fixes for new bugs introduced. We are unable to access iOS file system so there is only so much we can do.

Agreed. All of us bought Apple products for the same 'it just works' reason. Now this is no longer true and everything is going the old MS route of bloatware.

In my case the game I use did an update to have switch off Game Center as an option, so I am fine. It was very frustrating though!!!

Here's what has worked for me, one day after the "fix":

1) Sign into Game Center (Be brave!, ha)

2) Go to the "Games" tab.

3) Slow swipe a game on your list.

4) "Remove" the game's data from your device.

5) "Cancel" the offer to remove the game from your device.

I still get a "welcome back" message from GC in my games, but no more pestering to sign into GC.

Be sure to send Apple feedback: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html (or .../ipad.html)

Good luck!

This does NOT work in 9.2.1

You might try turning wireless network off before playing your game.

I'm so happy this worked! My iPad Mini is 3 years old and that annoying "welcome" pop-up would always lag the game a little bit then it would be normal again.

I pressed "forgot Apple ID" 3 times, opened a game, pressed cancel on the sign-in pop-up and now both are gone!

Thanks! 🙂