Google links don't work after iOS 9.3

Ok, a lot of troubleshooting here is IMHO very contradictory but regardless I remain optimistic that a fix is to be released soon. BTW, I'm a Networking Specialist so digging on the issue at hand isn't merely guessing; I'm doing my best to contribute to various threads in hopes of narrowing down the issues at hand.

All I can do now is delete the booking.com apps from both iPhones and re-install the updated versions (here's hoping that the loop will be broken). Would absolutely HATE to have to re-install everything on 128GB phones. Takes forever.

Apple get your stuff together!!

The update to the app has done nothing, sadly. I power-cycled the phone after installing the app again, and registered for booking.com under a brand new account hoping this would push through the alleged loop. No go. 😟

Will hold off for another 48 hours to see if any other possible fixes manifest..

Side note, the only real differences between my dads iPhone and mine is that mine is the "S" version and mine uses the Apple Watch to sync up.

If I have to restore to factory settings eventually in hopes of resolving this bug; and that doesn't fix it... Apple is forever dead to me. I will sell all of it and move on.

Don't have time for these extremely inconvenient bugs. We pay them enough to do a MUCH better job!

R.I.P all things Apple.?.

I'll update should I restore it, but from what I read thus far that doesn't work out well and is just more time wasted. Cheers.

I suspect its the same for every person that did the update. no google links. no links through email. many apps crash and freeze onscreen i have messages in ebay but cant reply on the reply button. loads of issues. i believe apple is aware.

There was a statement to the effect that it was older iphones but not correct. I have iphone 6 plus

That's Disappointing.

Restoring will fix it and after a restore you will be able to install Booking.com without issue. The bad data is actually stored in a keychain item only the swc process has access to. That item is not part of iOS backups so it doesn't get retained across restores. (iCloud Keychain is not the Keychain swcd uses)

IT is true of everyone that had Booking.com installed for about a week ending on the 28th, depending on swcd's internal, unknown update schedule. It affects all versions of iOS 9.x, including iOS 9.0.2. It's unrelated to the iOS 9.3 update.

theres no issue with booking.con on my phone I use it constantly before and after update. email wont work, googls wont work. ebay messages wont work and i havent update the booking.com app so how can it be the issue?

I Think youve misunderstood. Booking.com had a data file that triggered the link bug that existing in iOS since iOS 9.0. In order to fix it, the bad data needs to be removed from swcd. That's proving very, very hard. Even though the Booking.com people fix the issue in their app and on their server, iOS just refuses to let go.

Deleting it only works if swcd isn't crashing. If it's crashing, swcd never gets the uninstall notification and leaves the bad data behind. If you can uninstall immediately after reboot, it moght work. By might I mean it's only worked for 3 people, including me.

Sorry, but illogical: If iPhone is in "airplane mode" > then shut off and back on, then deleting the app quickly after booting up; that (according to your theory on what's actually the culprit) would fix this very simple issue as the "bad code" from booking.com's app wouldn't even get pushed through. There would be zero execution. The bad code cannot affect only the internal OS, without exporting it's execution online. Apple isn't silly enough to allow an app to change the OS. Common now. There is a much bigger issue at hand here & we cannot see it.

I had this problem with 9.2 ? updated this morning to 9.3 and still have the issue.

Turning off javascript, turning off phone immediately deleting booking.com... neither work for me

when are apple going to fix this.

+1, latest iPad mini, all apps affected + some apps fails to strt less you reinstall them + text editing in Safari weird now: touch to place cursor isn't working sometimes... or you are not able to edit text if you place cursor next to some word within paragraph. Did anyone tested this sh#t before releasing it???

Good to hear, being a complete novice as to all of this and no real computer knowledge, this all seems so crazy . . . nothing is working other than as I said, Safari and if I go from Chrome to open incognito tab it will open, but that is a total pain and I haven't even checked maps, etc. Today when I was trying to use one it said no data available for this area, which was a very developed area. Something seems far from right.

Thanks to everyone!

I Had problem with links not working on my iPad Air running 9.2.1 while my iPhone 6s was fine on 9.3. Until now software update to 9.3 on ipad wasn't available. Guess Apple pulled it because of concerns. However it was back again this morning and updating to 9.3. not solve problem with the links So I hope Apple is still working on problem

So how come then that although I never had Booking.com installed in my iPad Air, I had exactly the described problem (links in Safari and in Mail don't work and Safari crashes when links are pressed long) from the moment I updated from 9.2 to 9.3,?

Booking.com has affiliates and other companies like Agoda that use the same dataset and servers. If the problem occurred it the last week, it is definitely due to a booking.com server. The issue is not new to iOS 9.3.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc