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

Hi,

Never had any problems with my iPhone 6S. Just upgraded to iOS 9.3 without any issues. After the upgrade, I can't click links when searching something on Google in Safari or clicking a link in the Mail, the apps just freeze.

I tried clearing Safari history data/cache, closing all apps and restarting the phone (both regular and holding both home/power key), disabling all sorts of settings form Safari settings, but no luck.. Anyone with an idea how to sort it out?

iPhone 6s, iOS 9.3

Posted on Mar 24, 2016 12:47 PM

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Posted on Apr 3, 2016 2:04 AM

Guys, I believe I found a workaround to fix this situation, at least it worked on my 6s.

It is based of the workaround suggested here by Rosyna Keller


From the Xcode -> Devices I choose my iPhone connected vis USB to my Mac and I enabled the Console.

From the Console logs is pretty much evident the crash loop interesting the daemon


com.apple.swcd (shared web content)


it crashes every 10 seconds because the "launchd" process tries to run it again and again.... It crashes due to out of memory issue because is visible a crash report from the JetSamEvent.


The speculation is the daemon crashes because the Database is using is too big due to the fact the Booking.com application uploaded too much data.

The problem is still visible if you uninstall the Booking.com application, because in this situation IOS automatically should remove the data added by the Booking.com app on the SWCD database, but unfortunately it doesn't because the SWCD daemon is in a crash loop!


The trick is to remove the application before the SWCD daemon starts the crash loop.

To achieve the goal I followed these steps:


1) Connect your device via USB to your PC/MAC

2) Turn on AIRPLAN mode

3) Uninstall the Booking.com application

4) Go to "Settings->Safari

5) Set "Search Engine" to Bing

6) Disable "Search Engine Suggestions"

7) Disable "Safari Suggestions"

8) Disable "Quick Website Search"

9) Disable "Block pop-ups"

10) Disable any "Content Blockers" enabled (Example AdBlock plus)

11) Disable "Fraudulent Website Warning"

12) Go in "Advanced" and disable "Javascript"

13) Stil in airplane mode, reboot your device.

14) Keep the airplane mode. Re-Install from I-Tunes the "Booking application"

15) Keep the airplane mode. Run the Booking application.

16) After you didn't allow the Booking application to send you notification and to use the GPS, kill the Booking application using the IOS task manager (double click on the home button and swipe away the app).

17) Uninstall the Booking.com application

18) Exit from the AIRPLAN mode

19) Now the problem should be fixed and you can re-enable javascript and the other settings in Safari


Hope this will help :-)


Cheers

Raffa


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