Links in Safari are inactive after updating to iOS 9.3

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Links in Safari are inactive after updating to iOS 9.3

iPad Air 2. Updated to iOS 9.3 yesterday, and found that most of times the links in the Safari browser are inactive, i.e. it will not go to its indicated content. For example, my search engine is set to Google. After a search, all the links in Safari are dead. Even with www.apple.com, most links on the right half of the browser are dead. It was okay with all previous versions of iOS. Should I do something in setups so as to make the Safari links alive?

Thanks.

iPad Air, iOS 9.3

Posted on Mar 25, 2016 2:55 PM

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Answer 1

gamgl01

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Mar 26, 2016 6:30 AM in response to charles-in-fremont

try using google or yahoo apps. Safari does not seem to be working but I have access to the internet through both apps. It is nice that an apple update killed their own search engine.

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Answer 2

Mar 26, 2016 7:17 AM in response to gamgl01

Thanks very much for suggestions. I tried Google's Chrome, and the same thing. Then I cleaned all the Safaris history and website data, and to no avail. It IS not all the links are dead, most of them are and few are not. It sounds like Apple messed up some underlying structure. Hope it is not particular to my device, so Apple will soon device a fix.

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Answer 3

Mar 26, 2016 8:11 AM in response to charles-in-fremont

Dear all

same issue on my iPad mini 3. All links in safari / google search are dead. No accessing of the page is running. I installed google chrome and the same issue appears.

Next big update will be without me.

Cheers Chris

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Answer 4

chroot

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1,102 points

Mar 26, 2016 1:18 PM in response to charles-in-fremont

Settings -> Safari -> Advanced

disable java-script

See if that helps.

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Answer 5

elcpu

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31,481 points

Mar 26, 2016 8:54 AM in response to charles-in-fremont

This is a known issue with 9.3, many have reported the same problem here.

This article summarizes some of the problems and offers some possible solutions.

http://osxdaily.com/2016/03/25/troubleshooting-ios-9-3-update-problems/

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Answer 6

Mar 26, 2016 9:04 AM in response to elcpu

Hi chroot,

when Java script is disabled then I can open the links. The result page page looks the differently.

Some of the links are running. Some other links are asking to enable Java script again.

Hope that this will be fixed soon.

regards Chris

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Answer 7

Mar 26, 2016 9:24 AM in response to charles-in-fremont

I Have the same problem. at first I thought it was google search that didn't work but it is safari Apple has disabled.

Apple did something stupid again.

please fix it ASAP!!

maybe moderator is not here on their vacation now.

should we tweet to let the MEDIA know?? It should get them fix faster.

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Answer 8

chroot

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Mar 26, 2016 1:19 PM in response to freehold01

It's just a temporary work around until a permanent solution is developed. The issue is affecting all browsers so I'm guessing there's an issue with the java-script engine for iOS 9.3. JavaScript is one of the three main languages in front-end web design which also includes HTML and CSS. Usually these are browser independent so an issue with a website on one browser may not be present on another. I'm not an Apple software engineer so I couldn't tell you for sure how iOS handles javascript.

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