Q: Google links don't work after iOS 9.3

I am having the same problem, links won't work, on iOS 9.2 (not 9.3!). The problem started in the last 48 hours. I can't think of what I may have done to trigger it. None of the workarounds work.

Be sure to officially report this problem to Apple here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

This is another in series of bad bugs. Apple quality continues to decline.

Looks like this bug is starting to make the trade press.. http://www.technobuffalo.com/2016/03/27/iphone-users-plagued-by-safari-bug-after -updating-to-ios-9-3/

Keep posting and reporting this issue, maybe apple will finally get the message.

I have the same problem!

The same problem here. Links aren't working and the phone is freezing! Recently updated to 9.3. Tried to fixed it with the tips but nothing works. Solve the issue please...

IPhone 6 64 GB

Same here on iPad.

Safari: Links in many websites (Google and others) don't work, clicking often completely freezes Safari.

Mail: links in posts don't work. Clicking them freeze Mail.

I deeply regret that I updated to 9.3. I will be travelling the next weeks with very limited internet access and my iPad supposed be my connection to the world.

Obviously iOS 9.3 was not even properly beta tested with a bug like this!

Extremely frustrating!

iPad Air2, WiFi 128Gb.

Same problem in my iPhone 6S Plus with iOS 9.3.

Brrrr.

Not an 9.3 problem for me. Issue just came randomly now before I had updated. I was updating lots of other apps from App Store first, and it was after that I got the problem. So I decided to update to 9.3 too, but that didn't fix it. Only turning off Javascript has resolved Safari links so far, but as many other says, not links in mail and stuff.

Iphone 6S.

- Disabling use of the javascript in Safari as adviced is nonsense - there isn't life without javascript in the web.

- Safari makes the same symptoms.

- Stangely the paied (adwords) links in google search works .

- E-mails OK

Mine is 6s with IOS9.3

How in the WORLD can Apple lets this release out without addressing this TERRIBLE linkage problem? Seriously, if MICROSOFT did this is would be a global scandal. And yet Apple has this problem which almost destroys  it's intelligence mobile devices, and no one is hearing about it.

This is such a MAJOR FAIL by Apple that it calls into question whether or not they can be trusted to write operating system software.

ISSUE FIXED SUCCESSFULLY

GO TO SETTINGS >>

SCROLL DOWN & CLICK ON SAFARI >>

DISABLE SEARCH ENGINE SUGGESTIONS >>

DISABLE SAFARI SUGGESTIONS

Close all your tabs in safari, restart Safari

Same issue on iPhone 6. It started for me when clicking news items, from the search screen, stopped working.

I followed the above. First it did not work in safari, then I tried chrome, the again safari and it worked.

i Could even turn the settings back on.

clicking the news items still not working.

I Am appalled ( yet again with Apple ), after the debacle of my 4 ( yes, 4 ) new iPad Pro freezing after charging, fixed eventually by an Apple update,  with no apology, now, after updating to 9.3, I cannot use Safari as no links work. I did follow the advice suggested here to disable Java, and whilst that did work, when I went onto a site, it would not work without re-installing Java !

Do Apple not test these upgrades before releasing  it and telling us to do so? This ( as with the freezing ) cannot be isolated incidents as so many users are affected

my patience and loyalty to Apple is sorely tested. They want us to splash out serious money on their products, it appears  without long term prior testing, and only reacting when faults are reported by us.

Same problem on my iPhone 6s with iOS 9.3

Several people have mentioned this issue is present on 9.2.1.  They have not upgraded.  They also have the issue in Chrome.  Also it's not Google search specific.  I am one of those people.  I suspect this is a far more serious bug, that is unrelated to the upgrade some have performed. I think a bug has infected iOS devices and it has nothing to do with the upgrade which is coincidental.  It is interesting that it relates to what people attempt to link to.  Sounds like an attempt to track web browsing activity that has broken all browsing links.  The fact that Apple have not held their hands up after 3 days also make me think this is more serious than an upgrade issue which could have been fixed by now, and surely they would have spotted during testing as everyone here is saying.  Korea / NSA / GCHQ?

Same problem here. Cannot access links when browsing in Safari. Tryed all, no success.

Hope Apple will make fix to ios 9.3 asap, otherwise my smartphone of 600 euro became a classic cellular !

Same problem ... iPhone 6S running 9.3 ...  Cannot open links in TXT messages OR emails.  Tap does nothing, long hold freezes the phone. 

• Disabling Javascript did not help me
• Switching search engines (yahoo, google, bing, duckduckgo) and restarting safari did not help
• Disabling search engine suggestions and safari suggestions did not help. 
• ZERO problems prior to the upgrade and the problem began IMMEDIATELY after upgrade.

Very frustrating. I know for a fact that this issue was reported by multiple users during beta testing and they still released it!!!!!!  Instead of releasing a product when it is truly ready it seems they are releasing at a specified date, quality be damned. 

Terrible quality control.