Comments on: Fix Safari Crashing on iPad and iOS

By: stephanie

stephanie — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:55:12 +0000

amen

By: stephanie

stephanie — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 02:57:59 +0000

how do you do the downgrade? I’m so frustrated

By: Mophilly

Mophilly — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 04:56:42 +0000

Oh please. Trading one set of problems is not news. If you have nothing useful to contribute, don’t post. There is enought self serving, incorrect crap on the web as it is.

I am going to try leaving JavaScript on and disable cookies.

Long run? I would be soon happy if apple released a stable iOS for out-of-date devices so we can give them to our kids/nephews/nieces and buy the latest model.

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:01:29 +0000

I wish I’d known about this before updating to iOS 5. My iPad is now useless to me, crashes constantly, and nothing seems to fix it. First and last apple purchase, I promise. What a way for them to make a first impression. Nexus here I come. Anybody want a used iPad?

By: Ernst

Ernst — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:53:01 +0000

I tried all the suggestions and none of them worked. My Safari crashes became even more frequent fare upgrading to IOS 5.1.1 (iPad 1).

I finally turned cookies off and have not had a single crash in a week. JavaScript is on, it doesn’t seem to cause a problem.

I do a lot of tabbed browsing which seemed to aggravate the problem.

Turning cookies off also improved page loading times.

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By: TC

TC — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:59:19 +0000

Here is how to get to crash reports http://moapp.tumblr.com/post/4918642253/mac-101-iphone-and-ipad-crash-reports

By: TC

TC — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:50:44 +0000

Some people have problems and others do not. It sounds like some of us may have downloaded apps that are not cleaning up memory properly… For those that know how to get at the iPad crash reports, are they referencing any specific apps other than Safari?

By: TC

TC — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:33:11 +0000

Glad that you continue to work on this. I check back from time to time. I also get app crashes, mostly safari, but also HootSuite, YouTube, and many other iPad apps on my iPad1. I typically restart. Once in awhile an app will not restart without a hard reboot. Again thanks for yours and Martins persistence on this.

By: JZ

JZ — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 10:56:21 +0000

Gret suggestions, this problem has been driving me nuts. Many sites crashing even with all apps closed and one single window open, regardless of the browser (tried many). Disabled java, cleared history, and now no crashing. Sites are even loading much faster!! Thanks!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 05:06:46 +0000

I had so many crashes my iPad 1 was not even usable. I have the top of the line iPad 1 3G + 64gb that I bought in Singapore for $1200+ so I don’t want to go drop more cash on the iPad 3 for better image quality and a camera.

However… it seems to be working fine now… i turned off all email accounts (me.com, y mail.com and hotmail.com) deleted a bunch of my apps (many of which I paid for but seldom use) and then reset all cookies and web browsing history etc.

It works again…. so great.

Happy with the outcome, but disappointed I had to give up so many apps etc.

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 03:54:28 +0000

To say this is frustrating is an understatement – I want to throw my iPad out the window! Truly I do. I have a first generation and didn’t have any problems with Safari until I upgraded to iOS 5 – it constantly crashes and I’ve tried every tip I’ve read about to fix the problem – nothing is working. What a COMPLETE waste of my hard-earned money. Apple sucks for not fixing this problem. Last Apple product I buy.

By: Simon P

Simon P — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:07:42 +0000

Apple: it just works. Yeah right. My girlfriend is having all kinds of trouble with her iPad 2 with Safari instantly crashing whenever she tries to open it. The really annoying thing though is that we’ve had to put up with it for four months! We’re backpacking through SE Asia and we don’t have good enough internet access to do a complete restore.

It’s incredibly frustrating that so many people rave on about the iPad and yet my Windows 7 netbook – half the price of an iPad 2 – continues to be our only working computer. And so far we’ve yet to fix the problem and all the suggestions – other than a complete restart – don’t seem to work.

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:47:09 +0000

I have an iPad 2 with 64gb of ram. I was on iOS 4.3.5, and OH how I wish I had stayed right there!

I took in all the available tips for upgrading to iOS 5, took a deep breath and did it.

What a debacle! Safari spends more time dead than alive and even my ios5 compatable apps mostly don’t load beyond the initial screen. The other apps using a pvevious os, dont wprk at all, even after delete and reinstall
Also the whole operating speed seems to have slowed about 30%.

So now i assume my only fix will be to downgrade to the old iOS 4.3.5, if I can. I estimate about 20 hours wasted on this disastrous ‘upgrade’,, as well as lots of stress.

My advice – avoid ios5 like the plague!

By: Morgan

Morgan — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:45:54 +0000

5.1 fixed it, crashed on the above mentioned link. Now its ok