<story><title>Unable to open links in Safari, Mail or Messages on iOS 9.3</title><url>https://bencollier.net/2016/03/unable-to-open-links-in-safari-mail-or-messages-on-ios-9-3/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tommyd</author><text>Good to hear someone has got to the bottom of this. Been unable to use Safari for a few days due to it. I haven&amp;#x27;t updated any apps for months (I don&amp;#x27;t trust auto update to not leave my apps in a half downloaded state so I just let them mount up until I eventually download hundreds of updates!) so iOS must periodically check this list automatically rather then just when an app is updated&amp;#x2F;installed.&lt;p&gt;The combination of a lack of an official response from Apple yet, the fact that this was apparently found by beta users (not that the issue is related to 9.3 directly, but it was reported as a beta issue by some), and the inability to change default browser leaving my phone in a pretty broken state has got me seriously considering a switch to Android though, where at least such a bug could probably be worked around through changing defaults or worst case flashing a new ROM.&lt;p&gt;The iOS 9.3 release suggests Apple&amp;#x27;s QA process is rather lacking and incidents like this won&amp;#x27;t help confidence in their devices - it&amp;#x27;s okay for users who know how to work around it and understand what is going on, but my parents would probably think the whole internet was broken!&lt;p&gt;Rant over, glad to see this on HN as it has been p&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;*ing me off for a few days :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bluedino</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; The iOS 9.3 release suggests Apple&amp;#x27;s QA process is rather lacking&lt;p&gt;You can say that again. My battery runs down far more every day than it did before, my email doesn&amp;#x27;t fetch on schedule or push anymore, and things crash that never crashed before. 9.3 has been a mess so far.</text></comment>
<story><title>Unable to open links in Safari, Mail or Messages on iOS 9.3</title><url>https://bencollier.net/2016/03/unable-to-open-links-in-safari-mail-or-messages-on-ios-9-3/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tommyd</author><text>Good to hear someone has got to the bottom of this. Been unable to use Safari for a few days due to it. I haven&amp;#x27;t updated any apps for months (I don&amp;#x27;t trust auto update to not leave my apps in a half downloaded state so I just let them mount up until I eventually download hundreds of updates!) so iOS must periodically check this list automatically rather then just when an app is updated&amp;#x2F;installed.&lt;p&gt;The combination of a lack of an official response from Apple yet, the fact that this was apparently found by beta users (not that the issue is related to 9.3 directly, but it was reported as a beta issue by some), and the inability to change default browser leaving my phone in a pretty broken state has got me seriously considering a switch to Android though, where at least such a bug could probably be worked around through changing defaults or worst case flashing a new ROM.&lt;p&gt;The iOS 9.3 release suggests Apple&amp;#x27;s QA process is rather lacking and incidents like this won&amp;#x27;t help confidence in their devices - it&amp;#x27;s okay for users who know how to work around it and understand what is going on, but my parents would probably think the whole internet was broken!&lt;p&gt;Rant over, glad to see this on HN as it has been p&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;*ing me off for a few days :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>globalgoat</author><text>I actually rolled back to 9.2.1 manually but this didn&amp;#x27;t fix it anyway, which was even more disappointing! Also the restore from backup was sooooo slow over the weekend, presumably because of all the 9.3 downloads, that after 24 hours my 2 gb backup was still stuck on estimating, so in the end I rebuilt from scratch. I&amp;#x27;m glad that I have everything backed up elsewhere and not just in iCloud, which is of course the real moral of this story....always have multiple restore options!</text></comment>