iOS 9.3 - Safari/Mail freezes after clicking links on iPhone 6S

Agree - it is slowly affecting everything I am running. An article said they had a phone and iPad they used as a test that were working fine, installed Booking.com, which I had on both my iPhone 6S and iPad2, and I deleted them. They did the same, but it didn't revert. I can get Chrome to work, but the nothing else. They are both very expensive paperweights, about to become frisbees, at this point!

WHY Apple is it taking this long to fix this? And don't you do testing or are we your test bunnies now?

I have also experienced the same problems!

I didn't expect these kind of problems from Apple!

Same issues here with iPhone 6. Hope to see an update soon 😠

Please note that downgrade to 9.2 NOT A SOLUTION AT ALL!!

a lot of users are using ios 9.2....

Exact the same problem: can't open any link using Safari, Mail, Notes and some other apps since yesterday 😠

I tried all the solving-tips here (Safari search engine change to Bing, JavaScript deactivated... - but nothing helps...

(iPad Air2, iPhone 5s; all iOS 9.3)

So you got an answer on the 24 of march, and it was said "a patch within 2 days"...

Today the 28 of march, 4 days after this answer...

no message, no announce, no keynote LOL, not even a message... even if hundred thousands posts around this amazing issue...

Where are they? At work? I hope so... but I'm really fed up with this one way communication!

When you pay a lot for something, you could expect at least respect. At last you can understand that respect can't be sold.

I won't pay more to get answers... that shall be included.

I won't pay more to do testing... I'm currently a tester, I should be paid for that!

By the way, I did a check with my old 3GS with IOS 6.1.6. Working perfectly, so please, Apple support, read this!

This is my final contribution to your big testing plan: the current issue is related to IOS, and probably also to your PERFECT way to record the user activity by connecting to your servers on each click, drag, or whatever, in order to be able to make money with our activity.

I wish you the best for next days/months/years/decade/century, click the answer you like.

Same problem here... At 3:29 am on march 28 I did check for update again in settings. Settings is now hung with "checking for update"

UPDATEL After about a minute I received the "your software is up to date" message and the app became responsive.

Didn't work for me either.

Same issue here on two devices...

iPhone 6, iOS 9.3 (13E233).

Mail crashes/freezes whenever I try to open a link from an email (com.apple.mobilemail failed to exit after 5.00s)

Safari crashes/freezes whenever I want to open an absolute URL (com.apple.mobilesafari failed to scene-update after 10.00s)

iPad mini 2 Retina, iOS 9.2.1 (13D15).

Mail crashes/freezes whenever I try to open a link from an email (com.apple.mobilemail failed to scene-update after 10.00s)

Safari crashes/freezes whenever I want to open an absolute URL (com.apple.mobilesafari failed to scene-update after 10.00s)

I tried to remove the apps mentioned in this thread like Google Maps, booking.com,... and rebooted/restarted the devices, but without success. The only thing helping is to disable Javascript, but this has of course other unwanted effects.

To browse the web, I have now switched to the Mercury browser which works as expected, while staying within the browser, following a link from Mail or Message still tries to open the link in Safari and the apps are freezing. If at least one could configure another browser than Safari, but iOS does not allow that.

Hi, my iPad Air freezes mosts apps when clicking on hypertext links. Not only in Safari, but also in Mail etc. I'cant use my iPad Air any longer for working! First I had the activation-problem when updating to 9.3, then after some days this strange new bug started.

By the way: I started with an Apple II at the end of the 70th, and over all the years I did not have such problems with my Macs, iPhones or iPads, but after Steve has gone, what did happen to Apple, Tim!

I have the exact same issues with my iPhone 5s with iOS 9.2.1. Phone becomes rather useless now. Need a quick fix!

Same here (for me: on my iPad Pro / my iPhone 6). Luckily I'm still having my Windows 10 PC around, because (I'm afraid to say) right now I cannot use my iPad / iPhone at all. Even clicking on links in an eMail doesn't work / freezes up Safari / Mail.

Interestingly the problem only occured several days after I've updated to iOS 9.3. And amazing to see how such a drastic bug finds its way into the final release...

I Can virtually pin mine down as when it stopped working because I was in the cinema

i got a notification at 22.00hrs that I had a new follower on Twitter "@BingAds"

after that everything started freezing that has a Google connection it seems

Same problem here on iOS 9.3 and iPhone 6s Plus. Can't open links in Safari and in e-mail. Application freezes. Unistall booking app didn't solve. This is too bad for apple.

Hi,

Same issues as everyone here (links broken in safari, email, message, ... safari freeze when holding down on link, ... )

On iPhone 5s IOS 9.3.

The problem started Sunday 27th at exactly 11:00 am (French Time) 5:00 am Eastern Time (ET) , literally, as I was doing some searches on Google,

one moment it works, the next second all links were broken.

Disabling Java helps a little, nothing else is helping.

I have an iPad Air 2 on iOS 9.3 as well. It is still working at the moment. ... I am a bit afraid to use it though :-)

I m sitting tight ... I have to go on a trip in a few days, with all email, booking, ... on my iPhone.

I hope it will be fixed by then. I can t imagine the mess if something like that happens when you're away and fully relying on your

phone or tablet. Hope no one is in this situation.

C'mon Apple ...