Q: Google links don't work after iOS 9.3

Hello everyone,

When thinking about this issue, I currently have an iPhone 6s and there are no issues that i have seen thus far. However thinking about the iPhone 6s and the iPhone 6s plus when clicking on links you can use a hard press to do so known as the "snap" feature. However this is not a option for the iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 plus or any past models. This means that the new update has one or two things wrong with it. The first issue could be that it is assuming that everyone is able to do a hard press to open links, or the driver that support the screen is not compatible with the last models and its conflicting trying to use a "one size fits all approach". There is no known fix to this, and sorry to say if you don't have an iPhone 6s Or iPhone 6s Plus... it seems you have to wait. Looks link no internet for a couple of days until apple figures out the solution. Least you have a phone you can call on....  Stone age right? I figured...

And the "epic fail" award goes to Apple inc. Way to go...

I have my 6s...

Yes, I think the key here is that you 1) restored the iPhone software via the IPSW file and 2) did NOT do a restore, but instead redownloaded your apps.

It was kind of a slow light bulb moment for me, but I realized that my problem was that after I had upgraded originally to 9.3, I also updated all of my apps and then took a backup of my iphone via iTunes. So...the lastest backup directory was based on a 9.3 software basis.

Kind of a "duh" moment. What I did find out was that your can archive your backups (right click on the iphone backups shown....) and the use that saved archive later if needed. I did NOT have a backup of my 9.2.1 apps and data, since it was effectively overwritten when I did my 9.3 iTunes backup.

Live and learn. After taking literal hours to restore/re-update to 9.3, then reloading all my passwords and stuff, I'm back to where I started. Which is a 9.3 install with no working Safari/Chrome.  :=/  Still didn't get my messages back, but they effectively duplicate on my iPad since I use iMessage.

Will be smarter about my backup...AND upgrade...process in the future!

Good luck all.

THIS IS NOT 9.3 PROBLEM. READ PREVIOUS POSTS.

Having the same issues as everyone else in this thread.

Inexcusable error on Apple's part. How is it that I didn't have this issue with the latest beta release of iOS 9.3, but have it now after updating to the official release of iOS 9.3? What is the point of beta testing if things like this are happening?

I started using Apple products about 6 years ago, and have noticed a steady decline in the quality and reliability of their products and software. To think I almost bought the new 128 GB iPad Pro at $749.00 + tax...

Same problem here. It's just unbelievable that Apple guys haven't checked the ios more thoroughly. I downgraded to the 9.2.1, the best solution!

This is nothing to do with the iOS update to 9.3. It's a bug that also randomly started in 9.2.1 for lots of users, but is now being missed by the discussions as people update to 9.3. It happened to me in 9.2.1 out of the blue whilst I was updating about 20 apps in the background. Safari links suddenly sropped working. I've tried all the fixes....clearing cache, web history, soft reset etc. Nothing works. The only workaround is to switch off JavaScript, which gets safari working again to a fashion, but not Mail links. Apple are recommending this if you Tweet DM them. I've read a few reports of people getting this bug whilst updating multiple apps, so im wondering if it's an App Store problem....maybe even a malware attack.

This is on the right track. I just found a post on 9to5mac.com which links this problem to recently updated apps and not iOS 9.3: http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/27/some-users-reporting-iphone-crashes-on-ios-9-3-whe n-tapping-links-in-safari-and-other-apps…

Too much coincidence that the problem started when we upgraded to the 9.3 and disappeared once we downgraded to the 9.2.1 though...

Besides, Apple has already acknowledged the problem and they are working to release a fix it..

And this once great company's transformation into late 90's Microsoft continues apace.  How sad.

Hey,

Just got the same problem running IOS 9.2.1. It happened directly after i did 1 of 2 things. I viewed an embedded video which opened in its own window and i navigated to a page in south korean language. Tried all the usual resets and the only thing that worked was turning off javascript. As others said, no linking was working in the mail apps.

At the moment i fixed it by restoring a known working backup from yesterday. I fear that maybe some people synced and overwrote their backups with a corrupted copy when not realizing the problems occured. I have the booking.com app installed and despite other reports it hasn't affected anything.

Same issue here that everyone is reporting. Downloaded 9.3 for Night Shift. Ended up with links that don't work. Hopefully the fix comes out soon!

I can confirm this problem as well. iOS 9.3 on both my 6S Plus and Mini 4. I can defiantly confirm that this just started as I remember it working last night and I've had 9.3 since last Monday afternoon (aka right at release time). This is very confusing as to what is going on. How is this triggered "out of the blue"? Nothing had changed on my devices, no app updates, nothing. It just started randomly. I have tried every suggestion on this thread with no luck. What we do know according to people on this thread is that it is a known issue. Hopefully a fix will be released ASAP...that's the best we can hope for.  

Same problem here! iPhone 6 with iOS 9.3. Links from Safari, mail and Google Chrome won't work. Actually, all the embedded links won't work anymore.

Glad to hear I am not the only one where it suddenly started happening while on 9.2. My iPad Air 2 was fine at 6:00 last night. AT 8:00 I started experiencing issues in Safari. I suspect maybe an upgrade of Safari was pushed out. i have tried everything including upgrading to 9.3 and a ull restore. guess now we all just wait...

This wasn't in the beta versions. This wasn't even in the official 9.3 release which I've had since the day it was released to the public. Everything was working fine until today when both my iPad Mini 4 and 6S Plus became afflicted by this, yesterday there was no issue. Out of nowhere... I haven't changed anything recently.