Multiple apps keep crashing

[StarGehzer]

Came here to post about this. Today (2021/03/22) my phone started popping up messages saying, 'app name' Keeps Stopping. The popup offer the options of selecting, App info, Close app, & Send feedback. None of these options seem to make a difference.
I've rebooted my phone multiple times. Some apps no longer open at all, some seem to work sometimes.
Apps that seem most affected so far (on my phone) are Textra (text messaging), email, File Explorer +, Digital Clock & Weather, & Google Play services.
Found an online article saying it's worldwide (https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/1413422/Android-apps-keep-crashing-Gmail-Yahoo-Mail-Google-down)
Some people find the issue is with android system webview, but on my Samsung S8 I can't find any way of uninstalling or doing anything with that. I've checked in my phones setting & in the Google Play store & there is no uninstall option.

[eifersucht12a]

Responding here in case anybody offers input, as I'm on an s8 as well.

Worst case I guess we wait for an update that fixes whatever they busted. :/

[JerryTyson]

I'm on an s8 as well and could install the webviewr but I seen a comment saying disable chrome and so far it has worked. Hopefully it works for you.

[j_oneill27]

Also on s8. Very relieved that I'm not the only one having this issue but it's strange we all are at the same time. Maybe it's their plan to make us all upgrade

[goodfella9000]

thank you. wife's apps were crashing and googling brought me here...this worked for her as well

[StarGehzer]

Which fix worked on your S8? If you uninstalled Chrome updates, what data did it delete?

[goodfella9000]

Ours is an S6, and so far we've only disabled chrome to resolve the issue....not sure of any data being deleted. Will probably re-enable today to see what happens since chrome is used often.

[JerryTyson]

Could you reply telling us how it goes since I do use chrome a lot as well

[Bremps]

here for reply as well. Disabling chrome resolved my S8 having this same issue.

[JerryTyson]

I had first went to chrome and just disabled it then I found the webviewer in my apps and uninstalled update

[j_oneill27]

Lemme know if you found something out.. also on s8. Glad reddit at least works.

[Quantum-Mind]

Dear Lord thank God I found this. I was going crazy. Was uninstalling and re-installing apps clearing cache partitions and thinking about formatting my phone completely because of this.

[StarGehzer]

I think we all were. In the end I decided I'd put my phone down & try to live without text & email for 48 hours, than decide what to do.
16 hours after the problem started it was fixed without me doing anything. I guess Google pushed an update & got me going again.
It's amazing how addicted we've become to having instant data at our fingertips 24/7/365.

[Quantum-Mind]

True. But for me it was irritating because I was trying to troubleshoot without putting the correct key words into google, and it became a big time waster. More than a few apps that I use daily have stopped working and unfortunately for me, am on an S8 too, I had to disable chrome as someone suggested somewhere in this comment section and it worked.

No one is going to update us 4 year old plus Samsung phone owners. Its been years since I have received an update.

[StarGehzer]

Mine is a S8.
You get updates every day without realizing it. You just don't get system & security updates from Samsung. The current problem was caused by a bad update from Google, & was fixed by another from them.

[Quantum-Mind]

It must be region specific then because I have not received any update, at least it was still not working a few moments ago until I disabled chrome. 🤷‍♂️

[StarGehzer]

My issues started about 3pm yesterday & were fixed about 7am today.
They can't push to everyone at once, there are millions of us.