All iOS Apps Close Immediately After Opening

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All iOS Apps Close Immediately After Opening

For a few weeks now, I've had this problem where apps will close/crash as soon as I open them. It will happen without warning, and then the only fix is to reboot my phone.

As I write now, for example, apps that crash instantly include: Apple Store, TestFlight, Outlook, Spotify, iTunes U, Ultimate Guitar Tabs, App in the Air, Authy, Disk Brick, Desert Golfing and more.

As you can see the list includes first party apps and third party apps. It includes offline apps like Desert Golfing and online apps like the Apple Store.

Is there anything I can do about this? It's really annoying to have to restart my phone constantly.

I've attached a GIF of the Apple Store app crashing as an example, but they all crash in exactly the same way.

iPhone 7

Posted on Feb 26, 2020 6:32 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 26, 2020 7:02 AM in response to yourfried

That can be caused by insufficient storage. Go to Settings/General/About - Available. You should have at least 3 GB free.

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yourfried Author

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Feb 28, 2020 2:23 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

This was the answer to my problem, and I've marked it as the solution. Thanks Lawrence! After freeing up some storage space, I have been nearly two days without this problem.

It's a bit annoying that I couldn't get an error message, even from official Apple Apps. But at least, for now, my problem is solved.

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Feb 26, 2020 9:19 AM in response to yourfried

Or you can factory reset the device, this seems to be a issue beyond just apps.

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Feb 26, 2020 9:18 AM in response to yourfried

Well... I would record a sysdiagnose. You can find a LOT of debugging logs/information in it

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SravanKrA

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Feb 26, 2020 6:51 AM in response to yourfried

Try this --> If an app unexpectedly quits, stops responding, or won't open ...

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yourfried Author

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Feb 26, 2020 6:59 AM in response to SravanKrA

Hi SravanKrA, as I mentioned in my post, this happens to a large number of apps and I already know that the problem can be temporarily solved by rebooting but I'm looking for a more permanent fix or perhaps some way of getting logs (something like the console on macOS).

So those steps are not really applicable here.

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yourfried Author

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Feb 26, 2020 7:08 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

I currently have over 3GB available, but it's only 3.27GB. So I'll free up some space to see if that helps. I hope it's alright that I wait a day to see if this works before marking as solved.

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