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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 macs4all · · Score: 1, Interesting

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

    The reason it didn't get caught was that only a very few websites try to cram multi-MEGABYTES of "related-links" data down a browser's throat when the user simply clicked on a single link.

    So, howabout you share some of that copious hatred for the stupid-ass web developer that thought it was ok to send every URL on the interwebs (yes, I know that's much more than a few MB) to your browser just because the user clicked on a single link.