iPhone crashing on Dec. 2? Here's the fix!
Some iOS users reporting springboard crashes on December 2, 2017. If you're one of them, here's what's happening and what you can do to fix it!
iOS has a long history of time-related bugs, from years of daylight saving time issues to this latest one — people around the world reporting that their iPhones start crashing as soon as they hit December 2, 2017. Not everyone. Many people aren't having any problem at all. But enough are that you need to know about it.
What's happening to iOS 11 on December 2, 2017?
Springboard crashes, which means the front-facing part of the iOS experience is shutting down and starting back up. The cause?
If you have an app that has local notification with repeating settings, it will crash iOS Springboard on Dec. 2 (Tomorrow!) Here is a reproducible app by @takayamahttp://bit.ly/2iCkBhk
— Yoshimasa Niwa (@niw) December 2, 2017
If you don't have any third-party apps sending you local notifications, you may not have any crashes. If you do, until Apple pushes a proper patch, you have two options and will need to pick the one that's least onerous to you.
- Change your date back to a point in time before December 2, 2017. (This will affect your ability to keep track of calendar appointments and other time-based events.)
- Turn off notifications for all apps that use local notifications. (This will affect your ability to stay up to date with those apps.)
How do you change your data back on iOS?
- Launch Settings.
- Tap on General.
- Tap on Date & Time.
- Toggle off Set Automatically.
- Tap on Date and Time
- Set it back a day or several.
How do you turn off notifications for an app?
- Launch Settings.
- Tap on Notifications.
- Tap on the app you want to disable.
- Toggle off Allow Notifications.
- Repeat for all the apps you want to disable.
Why does this keep happening?
Seriously. You'd figure Apple would have torn any all time-based code apart by now and stamped all of this out. Once is a bug. Twice is a bad bug. More than that, it's a problem beyond the code.
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