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Apple Releases iOS 9.3.1 With Fix For Unresponsive Links

Posted by msmash on from the squashing-bugs,-bringing-happiness dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Apple, on Thursday, rolled out a minor update to iPhone, iPad, and iPod devices. The update, dubbed iOS 9.3.1, brings with it a fix for a software glitch that caused many apps -- including Safari, and Chrome -- to freeze and crash when trying to open a link. The issue was related to Universal Link, a feature Apple first introduced with iOS 9. Many reported that some apps including Booking.com were abusing this capability, causing the Universal Link database to overload.

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  1. Re:Found a bug and fixed it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Their QA department somehow missed that iOS 9.3 made it so that links broke in the mobile browser.

    How do you miss that? How shoddy do your testing practices have to be to miss that you've broken LINKS?!

    I don't recall the last time Android broke something so fundamental to the smart phone experience. Remember when Apple's plan was that all apps on iOS were going to be webapps? And they can't even take to the time to see if LINKS still work?!!

    So, yeah, I'd say Apple fully deserves mocking in this instance.