Q: iOS 9.1 causing app store issues

I'm using beta iOS 9.2. Same problems as 9.1 plus my car's audio system says the phone is "Unsupported". My workaround is to be signed into iCloud with my ID and into the stores with my son's ID (were linked on a family plan). Mine is an older ID with "mac.com", my son has "me.com". Also my wife's "me.com" ID is fine on her phone.

This morning I successfully updated four apps. Music works, Pandora works, Frozen Free Fall works, the car recognizes my phone, the biggest glitch is I cannot sync my iBooks bookmarks. The advantage of being a public beta tester is that I am able to give Apple feedback about all the glitches.

Reservedly happy to see that I'm not alone in this, despite Apple's insistence that I am. See my Medium post on it:

https://medium.com/@cjam/hey-apple-why-so-kafkaesque-29589b1f32cd

I've been having these issues since 8.4 so it's not limited to 9.1 for me. What a debacle!

japhy wrote:

 

Reservedly happy to see that I'm not alone in this, despite Apple's insistence that I am. See my Medium post on it:

 

https://medium.com/@cjam/hey-apple-why-so-kafkaesque-29589b1f32cd

 

I've been having these issues since 8.4 so it's not limited to 9.1 for me. What a debacle!

Yes, Apple products are absolutely terrible.  You should buy an Android.

This is truly an epic bug. My AppleID works for everything on my iMac running El Cap, on an iPhone 4S and iPad 4 running 9.1, on an iPad Mini Retina running 9.0.2, an iPhone 3G, and iPad 1 with various iOS versions.

For me, it is my 6S Plus running 9.1, and 9.2 beta, that the problem is the worst. Not only because it disables the store, but other apps, and car connectivity. this iPhone is my go to device, so it really ***** to have problems with it.

It may a difficult bug to squash. We only think it is simple because it wasn't there for 9.0.2. But when it appears it seems to spread across the device to things like Pandora and Frozen Free Fall which for me don't open unless I use my son's ID and then all is right. So 9.1 isn't really broken if you have the type of ID that most users have.

Google watches don't bring up much about this bug so it isn't widespread. We will need to use workarounds for perhaps a couple months, in my opinion. It *****, but I'm doing fine with separate cloud and store IDs. It's not perfect, but almost everything works.

You know, for someone that's not having any issues, you sure do have a lot of helpful things to say about this subject.

japhy wrote:

 

Reservedly happy to see that I'm not alone in this, despite Apple's insistence that I am. See my Medium post on it:

 

https://medium.com/@cjam/hey-apple-why-so-kafkaesque-29589b1f32cd

 

I've been having these issues since 8.4 so it's not limited to 9.1 for me. What a debacle!

I believe any pre iOS 9.1 issues you may have experienced were an unrelated issue with Apple Music. Those issues were more widespread and are mostly gone now, I believe. The 9.1 issue is a different beast.

MidwayFlux wrote:

 

You know, for someone that's not having any issues, you sure do have a lot of helpful things to say about this subject.

Thank you.  I do try my best.

I'm curious to know what you mean by "type of Apple ID?" I've had my ID for at least 10 years but my wife and son have only had ID's for two years and they are not experiencing any of the issues that I am. My issues include everything you note. What I have come to suspect is that the issue is related to iOS 9.1 and our Apple ID - but there is one other thing that I suspect is the cause and that is an Apple Music subscription. I had one until last week - cancelled after my phone started having app store issues, and not able to update apps, plus apple music causing phone freezes, playlists not visible. Ok, I cancelled my Apple Music but my wife and son never did the 3 month trial, I did and paid subscribed after my 3 month trial ended. The first thing that happened with my phone was Apple Music eating up to 6GB of my free drive space within a week of use. I read that if you log out of Apple Music it clears the cache, so I did and it does clear whatever secret cache it keeps, but I was not able to log back in. It took many attempts and reboots to be able to log in to my iTunes account on the phone and that also logged me in to Apple Music. Except that after this Apple Music never worked right, and all the other issues already described in this thread began to crop up.

I'm thinking about doing what some have suggested, and that is to create a new iTunes account with new apple ID and link (family share) the new account to my Apple ID that is experiencing issues so I can have access to my purchased apps. If anyone is actually doing this I'd like to know is this works? My phone is useless until Apple fixes this bug and it may not get fixed with iOS 9.2.

Apple called and told me that they are working hard on a fix for this. Although they still don't know what the problem is, they expect to have a 9.2 ready by the end of the week. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ This is what they told me.

Looks like a 3rd beta of 9.2 was released. If anyone has any luck with that let us know..

This bug is so frustrating.  I've restored my phone three times.  Sometimes what helps is just powering off and on my phone.  I used to have the 5s and it worked great.  I hope Apple finds a solution to this.  I have had my Apple ID for many years and have purchased so much music that I can't even listen to on my phone.  Kevin, my ios Senior Advisor has been very understanding, but even he is stumped.  This bug has also been affecting my health app.  It doesn't store any of my information.

japhy wrote:

 

Apple called and told me that they are working hard on a fix for this. Although they still don't know what the problem is, they expect to have a 9.2 ready by the end of the week. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ This is what they told me.

Interesting.  Since they don't know what the problem is, what good will an IOS update do?

RAllMixedUp wrote:

 

This bug has also been affecting my health app.  It doesn't store any of my information.

Elaborate on that.  If it's what I think you mean, there is an explanation.

MidwayFlux wrote:

 

Looks like a 3rd beta of 9.2 was released. If anyone has any luck with that let us know..

The following is a C&P from the developer's agreement:

4.         Confidentiality.  Except as otherwise set forth herein, you agree that any Apple pre-release software, services, and/or hardware (including related documentation and materials) provided to you as an Apple Developer (“Pre-Release Materials”) and any information disclosed by Apple to you in connection with Apple Events will be considered and referred to as “Apple Confidential Information”.

The health app doesn't record any of my activity.  It doesn't save any of my basic information like my DOB.  I was able to create my medical ID.