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I actually rolled back to 9.2.1 manually but this didn'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'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!

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I can confirm that the bug also present in IOS 9.2.1, running on an iPad Air 2

For links not opening, tried pressing harder or turning off/recalibrating 3D Touch?

General > Accessibility > 3D Touch

For folks reverting iOS, it seems like it's probably a preference thing (sans that bookings app.)

> I actually rolled back to 9.2.1

How? I thought Apple didn't allow that. I'd like to go back to 9.1 if possible

Apple leaves the signing window for older versions for usually a week after the newest version drops. Go to a site like https://ipsw.me/ and find your device. If the iOS version in the drop down menu has a green background, you can still restore to that version. You download the ipsw file and hold shift + click restore/upgrade on iTunes to manually target the ipsw you want to downgrade to.

I used this link, but same principle as the other reply. http://osxdaily.com/2016/03/22/downgrade-ios-9-3-back-to-ios...

Thing to note is that I didn't have the bug in 9.2.1 so I assume that something else changes within the upgrade process (i'm no iOS expert plainly) whether it be firmware of whatever, which doesn't get downgraded.

I find it somewhat questionable that I can revert to a previous version and still have that the problem the upgrade caused. I'm guessing this is my lack of understanding about mobile devices though. The whole process made me feel rather impotent compared to troubleshooting a PC or similar.

edit: (I should point out that I had to go to a laptop to post this comment, since the reply link still won't work on the iphone!)

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