iOS9 getting error “an SSL error has occurred and a secure connection to the server cannot be made”

For the iOS9, Apple made a radical decision with iOS 9, disabling all unsecured HTTP traffic from iOS apps, as a part of App Transport Security (ATS).

To simply disable ATS, you can follow this steps by open Info.plist, and add the following lines:

<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
  <dict>
      <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
      <true/>
  </dict>

Even though allowing arbitrary loads (NSAllowsArbitraryLoads = true) is a good workaround, you shouldn't entirely disable ATS but rather enable the HTTP connection you want to allow:

<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
<dict>
  <key>NSExceptionDomains</key>
  <dict>
    <key>yourserver.com</key>
    <dict>
      <!--Include to allow subdomains-->
      <key>NSIncludesSubdomains</key>
      <true/>
      <!--Include to allow HTTP requests-->
      <key>NSTemporaryExceptionAllowsInsecureHTTPLoads</key>
      <true/>
      <!--Include to specify minimum TLS version-->
      <key>NSTemporaryExceptionMinimumTLSVersion</key>
      <string>TLSv1.1</string>
    </dict>
  </dict>
</dict>

iOS 9 forces connections that are using HTTPS to be TLS 1.2 to avoid recent vulnerabilities. In iOS 8 even unencrypted HTTP connections were supported, so that older versions of TLS didn't make any problems either. As a workaround, you can add this code snippet to your Info.plist:

<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
<dict>
    <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
    <true/>
</dict>

*referenced to App Transport Security (ATS)