iOS9 / iOS 9 / iOS 9.1 / ATS 9: An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made due to old sha1 signed certificate

In iOS 9 and higher apps, a higher level of ciphers is required for a certificate for Forward Secrecy.

Before iOS 9, it was possible to let a site within a webview forward/redirect to another SSL protected site.
For example it was possible to let another site redirect to this one in iOS 8: https://www.securesuite.co.uk/

But since iOS 9 it is not allowed anymore and you'll get an error like:

An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made." UserInfo={NSUnderlyingError=0x7f9855dcb520 {Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=-1200 "An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made." UserInfo={_kCFStreamErrorDomainKey=3, NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=Would you like to connect to the server anyway?, _kCFNetworkCFStreamSSLErrorOriginalValue=-9802, _kCFStreamPropertySSLClientCertificateState=0, NSLocalizedDescription=An SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made., NSErrorFailingURLKey=https://www.securesuite.co.uk

You'll just see a blank/white screen in the webview; no errors or whatsoever on the screen.

The by-default supported list in iOS 9 and higher can be found here: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/General/Reference/InfoPlistKeyReference/Articles/CocoaKeys.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40009251-SW35

You can test easily whether a webpage/site is accepted at this site: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html

So when run for the above mentioned securesuite site, it tells us even in red the signature is still using the old SHA-1:

The site also even checks different clients like browsers and mobile operating systems like Android and iOS. And see the error in the Handshake Simulation section for ATS 9/ iOS 9: Client requires SHA2 certificate signatures

Running it against https://www.mastercard.com, which has SHA-2 as signature algorithm, the forwarding does work in iOS 8 and ios 9+: 

And the iOS 9 client also likes it:

To still be able to have iOS 9 and higher apps work with those less-secure sites which still use SHA-1, you can specify which domains are "ok-ish", i.e whitelist per domain. 

In the sections in https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documentation/General/Reference/InfoPlistKeyReference/Articles/CocoaKeys.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40009251-SW35 you can read how to whitelist: "Allowing Insecure Connection to a Single Server" and "Allowing Lowered Security to a Single Server" and "Using ATS For Your Servers and Allowing Insecure Connections Elsewhere".