If your Android apps (ESPN, Email, Realtor,...) are crashing this (Monday 3/22) evening...

Postby **Tomas** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 12:50 am

After spending hours trying to figure out what's wrong with MY phone, uninstalling apps like ESPN, trying 1,000 things to make email work, I found out it's a freaking system-wide glitch due to some bad update of a system app called "WebView"

Here is the long description:
https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/22/2234 ... em-webview

But, basically, the fix is here:

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 9:20 am

Thanks for this...

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 9:43 am

The fix was available this morning in the Play apps store.

Postby **mac5155** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 9:56 am

Yeah, I was losing my sh*t last night and finally stumbled across this on some random website. Worked just fine for me.

Postby **Tomas** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 10:20 am

The fix was available this morning in the Play apps store.

After spending the whole evening trying all fixes short of hard factory reset, and eventually resigning to searches for "buy one get one Samsung", I sure as hell won't touch Apps store updates for a loooong time.

Postby **Gabe** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 12:38 pm

Wife and I each have a Note 9. bought at the same time. Hers crapped out last night with all this craziness, mine did not. scrambled and found the fix online.

Postby **MalkinIsMyHomeboy** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 1:57 pm

something something iPhone is better

Postby **the wicked child** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 2:20 pm

Well **** how did I miss this thread... I was dodinting in another thread.

Postby **dodint** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 2:52 pm

Webview was already a disabled service on my tablet. Interesting.

Postby **relantel** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 7:03 pm

had to clear cache in both webview and google play store.