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iPad Safari crashing regularly

Safari on my iPad is crashing fairly frequently; sometimes when I restart it retains the pages that were previously open, and sometimes not.

Have not yet established a pattern, but it seems prevalent on very large pages (for example pages with many images) and on pages with embedded video (particularly Flash).

Anyone else experiencing the same issue and/or have any further information? Anybody using a browser other than Safari on the iPad?

Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Jun 14, 2010 12:29 PM

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Oct 16, 2011 7:00 AM in response to picjoe1

I'm having the same problem on iPad 2 with iOS 5. Safari opens to white screen but when you touch any part of the screen it crashes down to the iPad home screen. I closed the app, cleared the cache, did a hardware restart, etc. No change. All other apps are working fine, including those accessing the Internet via either wi-fi or 3G. This is a real mystery.

Oct 18, 2011 4:21 AM in response to Noteleaver

I have the same problem. I have had several crashes with Safari since I updated to ios 5.


It ocurrs normally when I am typying long text in a web (forum, etc)


Here is the bug reports,


Incident Identifier: 1D14F923-262F-482D-A6D1-3144EAB293B9

CrashReporter Key: 572f1f51d2605b398661049dbfd85dddf454395c

Hardware Model: iPad2,1

Process: MobileSafari [7100]

Path: /Applications/MobileSafari.app/MobileSafari

Identifier: MobileSafari

Version: ??? (???)

Code Type: ARM (Native)

Parent Process: launchd [1]


Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)

Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x03aebde0

Crashed Thread: 10



Thread 10 name: Dispatch queue: CA::CG::Queue

Thread 10 Crashed:

0 ??? 0x03aebde0 0 + 61783520

1 CoreGraphics 0x372bdd54 0x37276000 + 294228

2 QuartzCore 0x3648975c 0x36448000 + 268124

3 QuartzCore 0x36489674 0x36448000 + 267892

4 QuartzCore 0x364825ec 0x36448000 + 239084

5 QuartzCore 0x36481abe 0x36448000 + 236222

6 QuartzCore 0x3648062e 0x36448000 + 230958

7 libdispatch.dylib 0x35e79dc0 0x35e77000 + 11712

8 libdispatch.dylib 0x35e79c56 0x35e77000 + 11350

9 libdispatch.dylib 0x35e7a860 0x35e77000 + 14432

10 libsystem_c.dylib 0x30a821c8 0x30a78000 + 41416

11 libsystem_c.dylib 0x30a8209c 0x30a78000 + 41116


Thread 10 crashed with ARM Thread State:

r0: 0x02933b10 r1: 0x2ff70b80 r2: 0x03aebde0 r3: 0x00000000

r4: 0x00000000 r5: 0x002c5e80 r6: 0x00000001 r7: 0x2ff70b24

r8: 0x00198e00 r9: 0x13b6a1d0 r10: 0x028121a0 r11: 0x03540688

ip: 0x3f9f8944 sp: 0x2ff70b24 lr: 0x372bdd6d pc: 0x03aebde0

cpsr: 0x00000010

Oct 23, 2011 11:27 PM in response to Rob Bruen

Same here. Ipad first gen, ios 5.

Safari used to be extremely stable (a crash once every blue moon only on very heavy pages).

Now it seems like i cn't go through a couple of days without experiencing a crash. Techcrunch.com, for example, i haven't been able to open it today, always ends up crashing.


Apple, any update coming soon?

Oct 26, 2011 9:49 PM in response to Boz22

I personally find the new Safari to be a **major** improvement over the iOS4 one.

If only it were stable, that would be perfect.


Unstability got to a point where I'm wondering if I'm not going to try to downgrade it.

That, plus the multitasking gestures.


Damnit it Apple, you guys usually do a wonderful job, iOS 5 is packed with awesome features, why ruin on something like that?

Oct 28, 2011 9:36 AM in response to Rob Bruen

Upgraded to iOS 5 two days ago...and since then, my iPad 1 crashes multiple times a day. In the year that I've had this device, it only happened a handful of times before this upgrade. I initially wasn't going to upgrade, knowing there would be problems since it's new...but 13 of my apps required iOS 5 for their updates, so I went for it.


I'm another one not liking the tabs across the front of the screen.

iPad Safari crashing regularly

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