Safari and all browsers not opening Java Script Links - Seems like App Issue

It is the Wikipedia app. Delete it and reboot.

Everything back to normal.

Deleted Wikipedia, cleared cache, and then restarted a few times. Issue still present and bug remains as lit was.

I Thought you had it. Please keep hunting For it.

I was told by Apple support team to:

- launch an iCloud backup

- restore iPad as new device and check whether the issue is here or not

- if not, restore through iCloud backup (not iTunes) and check

This method would bypass a potential problem within the iTunes backup (corruption, or other)

Did anyone try this already ?

Don't see why this should help.

As soon as you restore your problems will come back.

And why should there be a difference between an iCloud and a iTunes backup?

A backup is a backup. Either you restore all data or you don't.

Nothing in between...

Except that when you restore from iCloud and as a new device, aren't you downloading a clean iOS with non-corrupted system files, on which you will download the data that are in the cloud. When you are restoring from iTunes, ayou are restoring the whole, i.e. including corrupted system files if any.

That's what I was told anyway.

Did someone try? I understand plenty of people are against, but in this case let's be pragmatic, did someone experience this already ?

Wrong.

A backup in iTunes does not contain any system files.

My guess is this problem is caused by some Safari 'deep linking ' issue.

That's why deleting an app that is a link target might help.

I have the same problem hyperlinks don't work in safari or email and my phone freezes. Help Apple!!!!!

Just got a reply from an Apple engineer. They are working on resolving the issue in a next iOS update.

In the meantime there is a way to solve the issue.

Go into

Settings > Safari > Advanced

and turn off JavaScript

Go back to Safari and force close it (double click home button, swipe up Safari)

Now open Safari again and . . . url hyperlinks work again.

Obviously, this solution comes at the small inconvenience that websites using JavaScript will not be rendering in an optimal manner.

That is for the next iOS update.

Hi!

Tried this but to no avail. How frustrating this is such an essential feature " tap on the link and the page opens"

APPLE please fix this ASAP

Thank you!

Also contacted Apple Support and wasn't even told about the Java option, they just told me that it was a known issue with no current resolution that engineers are working on and would be addressed in a future update. I mentioned I rely on my iPhone to conduct business and have already lost countless hours trouble shooting as well as lost data when I rolled back to a previous backup. I got a 'we understand your concern' and that was it.

I may go pickup a Galaxy S7 this afternoon. Haven't been able to use mail correctly for 4 days now and there doesn't seem to be any real concern from Apple.

I have this issue (Mail no longer opening web links) since yesterday, under iOS 9.2.1. My fix: I am now using Outlook for iOS and set the browser to Chrome ... of course a very embarrassing solution for Apple.

I'm having the same issue on both my iPhone 6S and iPad Air 2. None of the solutions I've tried have worked.

I have exactly the same problem with the same randomness and unexplained arrival!

I'm in the same situation. Hope Apple takes notes on all these unhappy customers and does something fast! I have a business to run!!