Phil O'Keefe Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 If you're thinking about updating your iPhone or iPad to the latest OS version, you might want to think again - iOS 9.3 has some rather crippling bugs that make web surfing next to impossible unless you completely disable Javascript... http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/techno...c8P?li=BBnbcA1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted March 29, 2016 Members Share Posted March 29, 2016 Too bad I didn't see that before I updated the phone... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thatsbunk Posted March 29, 2016 Members Share Posted March 29, 2016 crap, I just updated this morning... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted March 29, 2016 Author Share Posted March 29, 2016 Sorry if it's too late for you guys - I posted it hoping it would help some people who might see it before updating. I got the update downloaded on one of our phones, but I checked right before installing it - and saw that there are serious problems with it. Check the article though - there are a couple of work-arounds listed in it that might help you get by until Apple gets things fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members UstadKhanAli Posted March 30, 2016 Members Share Posted March 30, 2016 I had been thinking of installing it very soon, so I'll hold off even longer. I usually don't install these things right away anyway. Bad things often happen if one is too quick with the updates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted March 30, 2016 Members Share Posted March 30, 2016 AS it turns out...I had hit "Remind me later" by mistake. Thanks, Uncle Phil! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ernest Buckley Posted March 30, 2016 Members Share Posted March 30, 2016 I updated 2 days ago…. so far so good. (knock on wood) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thatsbunk Posted March 30, 2016 Members Share Posted March 30, 2016 AS it turns out...I had hit "Remind me later" by mistake. Thanks, Uncle Phil! I was hitting remind me later for the last week or so. Got tired of constantly seeing it & decided to update yesterday morning. So far no problems though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blue2blue Posted March 30, 2016 Members Share Posted March 30, 2016 And I thought the aut-updates on my Google Nexus 7 tablet were problematic! (Well, they are. Buying an auto-updating OS device was part of the initial appeal -- and things were fine for around two years but toward the end of Android 4.x, things got really hinky. 5.x was supposed to fix things but really didn't. This is, of course, a Google-branded 'flagship' device. =/ Meanwhile, my non-updating LG phone is still back on Android 2.3 and runs like a damn champ! It's a brilliant little device that keeps on ticking. Of course, I can't let the dreaded Google Play Services onto it or let any of Google's own, thoroughly bloated apps update.) Anyhow, I see Apple Support now has a Twitter feed. I don't think that's going to last in its current form very long, judging from the long, long, long stream of complaints about a wide range of Apple's premium products. https://twitter.com/search?q=%40applesupport PS... Appears the problem is javascript -- not Java. Since the buggy and problematic Oracle Java runtime is all but banned from iDevices, I couldn't figure out why that would be a problem. But the benighted 'web 2.0' that Apple's divergence from accepted web standards helped turn into a rolling klusterfudge is all but totally dependent on the very different javascript scripting language that provides 'advanced' capabilities at the browser-end. (Javascript is also sometimes used in some sever scenarios, but it's primarily oriented to runtime in local browsing software.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted March 30, 2016 Author Share Posted March 30, 2016 Cool - glad to hear it Craig! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted March 30, 2016 Author Share Posted March 30, 2016 PS... Appears the problem is javascript -- not Java. Thanks Blue - I changed the OP to reflect that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members veracohr Posted March 30, 2016 Members Share Posted March 30, 2016 I'm posting this on 9.3 (13E233), although there is apparently some other 9.3 version available for me. I haven't had any problems with the version I'm on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted April 3, 2016 Members Share Posted April 3, 2016 Good news! 9.3.1 is out, and Apple says it fixes the issue with internet links in browsers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted April 3, 2016 Author Share Posted April 3, 2016 Good news! 9.3.1 is out, and Apple says it fixes the issue with internet links in browsers. Good news indeed! Not that I don't trust them, but I think I'll just poke around the web a bit and see if everyone seems happy with it so far before deciding to install it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted April 5, 2016 Members Share Posted April 5, 2016 Good news indeed! Not that I don't trust them, but I think I'll just poke around the web a bit and see if everyone seems happy with it so far before deciding to install it... Please file a report with the results of your findings... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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