Safari continually freezes on iPad

Safari continually freezing on my iPad. Cleaned everything, no open tabs, history/cache cleaned. Horribly annoying

iPad Pro, iPadOS 26

Posted on Feb 13, 2026 2:43 PM

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MrHoffman

Level 10

159,047 points

Feb 13, 2026 3:28 PM in response to Nyx-tortie

Test Safari from another network.

Remove (remove, not disable) all add-on VPN apps and all add-on security apps, disable all Safari extensions, force a restart, and test again.

If that fails, temporarily disable iCloud Private Relay, and test again.

Nyx-tortie Author

Level 1

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Feb 14, 2026 1:23 AM in response to Nyx-tortie

Thanks, will give it a shot. Thank you for the links! It keeps getting worse so hopefully this will fix the issues!

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