As anticipated, Apple has put out links to download iOS 9.3.1 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch owners. The release of iOS 9.3.1 is issued for very short period of time. We can assume this is a piggybacks to 1st public release of iOS 9.3 which was published on recent Apple’s “Let us loop you in” event. Instead of bringing out some new features or functionality, this short update aspires to fix bug recently discovered.
Public Beta testers who are enrolled in Apple’s and registered developers had spent a few months going through pre-release testing process before public release. After such long period of waiting time, when last week the public version have become lived, it was found that the new firmware version have some issues especially the web link unexpected crashing issue after tapping them.
Download iOS 9.3.1 IPSW To Fix Web Links Crashing
After reporting the aforementioned issue, the company has already informed its users that a new update is needed, and Apple show their promise to its users by releasing this update to fix universal linking problem. In fact it is a very quick response to iOS users around the world.
Before getting into download links lets check some of the iOS 9.3 features here:
- Revamped Night Shift settings panel in the Settings app.
- Apple Watch companion app now shows current Watch face.
- Removed ‘Set Wallpaper’ option from Settings app Quick Action menu.
- New toggle in Music settings panel: ‘Add Playlist Songs to My Music.’
- New 3D Touch Quick Actions for Tips app.
- Multi-user support for iPads.
- Siri gets Hebrew, Finish, Malay support.
- Ton of bug fixes.
Here is official changelog for iOS 9.3.1:
“Fixes an issue that caused apps to be unresponsive after tapping on links in Safari and other apps.“
iOS 9.3.1 IPSW links:
- 12.9-inch iPad Pro (WiFi)
- 12.9-inch iPad Pro (Cellular)
- 9.7-inch iPad Pro (WiFi)
- 9.7-inch iPad Pro (Cellular)
- iPad Air 2 (6th generation WiFi)
- iPad Air 2 (6th generation Cellular)
- iPad Air (5th generation Cellular)
- iPad Air (5th generation WiFi)
- iPad Air (5th generation China)
- iPad (4th generation CDMA)
- iPad (4th generation GSM)
- iPad (4th generation WiFi)
- iPad mini (CDMA)
- iPad mini (GSM)
- iPad mini (WiFi)
- iPad mini 2 (Cellular)
- iPad mini 2 (WiFi)
- iPad mini 2 (China)
- iPad mini 3 (China)
- iPad mini 3 (WiFi)
- iPad mini 3 (Cellular)
- iPad mini 4 (WiFi)
- iPad mini 4 (Cellular)
- iPad 3 Wi-Fi (3rd generation)
- iPad 3 Wi-Fi + Cellular (GSM)
- iPad 3 Wi-Fi + Cellular (CDMA)
- iPad 2 Wi-Fi (Rev A)
- iPad 2 Wi-Fi
- iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G (GSM)
- iPad 2 Wi-Fi + 3G (CDMA)
- iPhone 5 (CDMA)
- iPhone 5 (GSM)
- iPhone 5c (CDMA)
- iPhone 5c (GSM)
- iPhone 5s (CDMA)
- iPhone 5s (GSM)
- iPhone 6
- iPhone 6 Plus
- iPhone 6s
- iPhone 6s Plus
- iPhone SE
- iPhone 4s
- iPod touch (5th-generation)
- iPod touch (6th-generation)
People who like to have a clean installation should download iOS 9.3.1 final IPSW for their own devices from above given links and then simply restore it on their iOS devices via iTunes. And those who want to get this iOS 9.3.1 OTA update, simply navigate to Settings –> General –> Software Update Section from your device Settings app.
