Samsung isn’t the only smartphone maker battling annoying bugs. Apple said Tuesday that it was aware of complaints about iOS apps like Safari and Mail freezing and crashing after tapping certain links. Apple, as typically happens in these scenarios, said a fix will be released soon but has not said exactly when that will be.
The bug first gained prominence just a few days ago, after people took to places like Apple’s official support forum and the company’s recently-launched Twitter customer service account to say that apps like Safari and Mail, the default web browser and email app of iOS, respectively, were hanging after tapping links inside these apps. Independent developers managed to track down the issue to a bug in the way iOS handles abnormally large URL association files—basically, the file that tells iOS when to open an app instead of a webpage when tapping on a link.
