Although Apple prides itself on providing an app ecosystem that is safe and trusted, recent reports from developers and angry consumers are saying otherwise, with many apps crashing after being updated on the iOS and Mac App Stores.
Macro Arment, creator of Insapaper has written that his App has suffered a mystery corruption for users after the latest app update is downloaded. Arment urges users to be wary for the next few days as this issue is sorted out, saying:
Characterizations of this issue:
- The app crashes immediately on launch, every time, even after a delete and reinstall as long as the corrupt file is being served by the App Store.
- It doesn’t even show the
Default.pngbefore crashing. Just a split-second of a partial fade to black, then back to Springboard.- It may only affect customers in some regions.
- If updating from iTunes, some customers might get a dialog citing error 8324 or 8326.
- Mac apps might show this dialog:
“[App] is damaged and can’t be opened. Delete [App] and download it again from the App Store.”- The console might show:
AppleFairplayTextCrypterSession::fairplayOpen() failed, error -42110
The developers of Goodreader for iPad have also addressed this issue, posting a complex tutorial to fix the issue that i plaguing many apps at the current point in time. Other popular apps, such as Angry Birds Space HD Free and Flick Soccer have also been affected by the corruption.
It is currently unknown how many apps have been affected by this mystery issue, although it is safe to say that refraining from updating apps within the next couple of days is advisable, until this issue is sorted out.
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