For those having problems with the iOS 9.3 update please read...

The Forum always needs and welcomes new talent. Both Demo and I got here the same way. Ask a few questions, see how much there is to learn, share your knowlege. The first time I solved a problem I could hardly sleep. This is very rewarding.

This is the "right" way to do the updates for an IT person.

For a normal person, we just update as we "trust" apple.

That's why we buy apple instead of android or windows in the first place.

As an IT guy, I also appreciate the steps outlined. (I was too lazy / complacent to do them, my bad).

Are you working for Apple?
😝

Thanks for the kind words Demo. Its

great to read that my message was helpful!

I Am glad I have an eye witness to what is happening on my iPad. After I reported that my iPad Air was working fine until the latest build, I had reset iPad, turned wifi off, turned iwifi back on and then set airplane mode. When those didn't work, I reset network. As I am on the road I could not restore. None of this worked.

NOw is when it gets weird. appx 24 hours after installing last build, I woke up iPad Air and yahoo email links were working and videos were downloading

and not blurry. I started to report this miracle but decided to wait. Worked great all day yesterday.

i put it to sleep and charged it overnight. Yahoo email links working sporadically and again have blurry pictures and blurry videos on youtube. Same problems encountered 48 hour ago. So I just did a reset (turned off and left it for an hour). Now, everything working again.

I was a mainframe software designer, programmer, analyst and this is weird to me.

bobseufert wrote:

I tried getting Demo's thread pinned to the top or at least a link to it. I checked out the ES-ASC today and they had the message below pinned at the top. We sure could use your help iver there.. The high-lighing was caused by the Bng translator.

If you can not activate your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch after installing a software update, follow the steps listed here (Latin America) or here (Spain).

If you can not activate your iPad 2 (GSM model) after installing iOS 9.3, follow the steps here.

To clarify the location(s) of the PINs at ES-ASC... I found them ONLY on iDevice forums lists = NOT community wide = should be community wide since getting where one really needs to be is sometimes beyond some folks ability to properly navigate the UX designed by non-users of the forums

I tried this. Worked better than deleting Booking.com. Safari links now work but Mail freezes when clinking on links. I hope Apple will come up an upgrade to 9.3. I would hope they take ownership of the problem. I should not be for the hapless end user to figure out a solution of what seems to be a wide-spread problem.

Picnicmetoo wrote:

THanks so much. I have an Ipad Pro (12.9") due Friday. Tried to mark it helpful but for some reason I haven't been able to do that in these forums recently.

You only get TWO "This helped me" marks per thread - reasoning for that has Pros and Cons 😕

Demo wrote:

Picnicmetoo wrote:

THanks so much. I have an Ipad Pro (12.9") due Friday. Tried to mark it helpful but for some reason I haven't been able to do that in these forums recently.

I Am the only one that can mark response as helpful since I am the one that stared the discussion.

Sorta Kinda... we get to mark 'em helpful too

retiredluvit wrote:

I Am glad I have an eye witness to what is happening on my iPad. After I reported that my iPad Air was working fine until the latest build, I had reset iPad, turned wifi off, turned iwifi back on and then set airplane mode. When those didn't work, I reset network. As I am on the road I could not restore. None of this worked.

NOw is when it gets weird. appx 24 hours after installing last build, I woke up iPad Air and yahoo email links were working and videos were downloading

and not blurry. I started to report this miracle but decided to wait. Worked great all day yesterday.

i put it to sleep and charged it overnight. Yahoo email links working sporadically and again have blurry pictures and blurry videos on youtube. Same problems encountered 48 hour ago. So I just did a reset (turned off and left it for an hour). Now, everything working again.

I was a mainframe software designer, programmer, analyst and this is weird to me.

It appears that "weird" is the "new normal" 👿

Demo wrote:

Yep. Our buddy Bob reminded me of that earlier this morning in this thread. 😉

The "UNthreading" (reducing a thread to FLAT instead of my preferred threaded view) of long threads has long caused this for me.. my preferred WorkFlow is to go through earliest to latest in email notices and answer (or not) - this is likely not the last time that AppleJiveWare will confound us in some way or another!

Downgrade to 9.2.1 remains an option.

I struggled with the links issue for hours yesterday w clients iPad Air 2, which had Bookings.com app installed. Published fixes got Safari going (suspect mostly disabling JavaScript) but mail still crashes with links, battery drain still seems excessive. No fix for me, and yes, I did wash, rinse and repeat. Twice.

I was able to TWICE successfully downgrade to 9.2.1 (last time around 11pm MDT on 3/30) so code signing, contrary to posts here on 3/28, is once again enabled. Sadly, I had no pre 9.3 backups, and while editing the info.plist file in the latest 9.3 backup made the backup visible under 9.2.1, it would not actually install, w iTunes reporting 'corrupted backup' or words to that effect. Restoring the info.plist file allowed me to restore running 9.3. Bug still present.

It has been ironic to find puff press to the effect that the 9.3 rollout was remarkably successful overall, while being unable to help a client with a crippled iPad.