Safari crashes on iPad after ios 5 update

All this talk on the issue and nothing so far as a solution. Come on Apple. Please stand by your products...we have all spent thousands of dollars supporting the products you put on the market. What was once a beautiful bullet-proof cool toy has turned into something I abhor and shudder at even turning on for fear it will crash. It is no longer fun to use my iPad. Please fix this.

I wish Apple would let me go back to pre ios5, my iPad 2 is now rubbish!!! It was such a good product but it's now un usable for what I want from it. Really disappointed, I have used Apple for years but this is just inexcusable not letting me go to an older version os until 5 is developed proprly, I thought 5.01 was too good to be true!!

I am also having this problem... Judging by the massive number of views this thread has I'd say the problem is widespread. Apple, please wake up and fix this.

delete you iCloud email account

I finally gave up waiting for an update to fix this or even hearing about Apple acknowledging these issues. Yesterday, I went to my local Apple Store for a Genius Bar appointment. My 'Genius' seemed not at all baffled by the issues I chronicled (as if i wasnt the first one!) and, without passing go, recommended wiping my iPad and restoring as a new iPad. He said it was a software issue (duh!) and that it happened when I upgraded to iOS 5 and restored from my backup. Since something was wrong with that backup (how and why this was the case, I have no idea. I always restore from my backup when updating the iOS) I couldn't reinstall that backup. Anyhow, since the stuff on my iPad was retrievable (mail, bookmarks, calendar, contacts, photos in photo stream, apps, iBooks, Kindle books) I told him to do it. The only thing I would lose we're two rental movies that I hadn't watched and for which I had only paid .99¢ . Thank goodness my photos on my iPad were already either backed up (pre-photo stream) on my iMac or in the photo stream. After the wipe and restore everything seems to be working as before the first iOS 5 upgrade. I haven't noticed the weird cached website page loading issue even after a day of viewing pages and creating a cache, no crashes so far, and my calendar page opens and shows my entries. It was really easy to reload my apps from the cloud. In fact, it gave me an opportunity to clean up the apps I didn't really want on my iPad anymore but were just kinda hanging out.

It turned out ok for me but this drastic solution might not be for someone who has data they can't afford to lose. Not sure if Apple is ever going to have another solution for this though.

Good luck everyone. Thanks for all of your help and input.

Removing my iCloud email account from my iPad doesn't help the issue, thanks for the suggestion. I hope Apple takes this seriously.

Safari crashes constantly. The calendar is blank until I change months and change back. The dock plug is no longer detected by iTunes or power. I've only been able to have the unit charge if I apply power from the wall, and start the device. It chirps and charges. Otherwise isn't recognized. Can't wipe it because I'm wifi syncing and it's useable. If I wipe, it'll want me to plug into iTunes which doesn't detect the plug. Bricked an iPhone long ago on that. Won't dare attempt a wipe unless apple guarantees a replacement if it's bricked. I could likely restore from the cloud but would need it to see iTunes to get my music synced.

Jobs dies and the device craps out! Ha.

Deleting iCloud account helped me a little bit, with fewer crashes. It's not saying much -- still much more unuseable than iOS4.3.3. And the power issue is still there, as LeeOwen says: the **** machine cannot make up its mind about whether it wants to charge when connected to a wall socket or a computer or whatever. Oh, my iPad1 dock is useless- it will never charge.

What the **** is happening to Apple? Well, I guess it was Steve (RIP the great man) that happened to Apple for a decade plus, and it's back to normal.

OK this is getting on my nerves. Since updating my iPad 1 to 5.01 it crashes all the time. There is no fix for this? I'm a long time Apple fanatic but the Company needs to get its act together. Battery issues on iPhone 4S supposedly because of the update and now iPad issues because of this as well. Come on Apple, fix this problem.

Does the same problem happen on other browsers, safari ain't that great in the first place.

RC

Safari, apps that have never crashed before, like Flipboard, etc.

Well, I'm back. After a complete wipe of my iPad 1 I thought all issues were resolved. There were for a week or so. But, the loading of old cached website pages is back as of this morning and the blank calendar page is also back. I haven't had any crashes yet, though. This iOS really, really *****! Fix and update this Apple!

my ipad1 work like sh.. after update to 5.01 😟

Not only Safari for me - since the upgrade to 5 I can't even get Apples App Store to work!! The iPad hangs and takes forever for screens to show - not happy!!

We are now up to six full pages of dismay regarding iOS 5 and what are clearly memory issues on the iPad and even iPad 2 devices (less frequent). I say "clearly" because if you look at the console logs it "clearly" states that an out of memory error occurs everytime Safari, or ANY app that uses the webkit framework, encounters a rich media page. And, I can confirm, like so many others, that if a page or even an app has embedded video, the problem is even more prevalent. So, "clearly" there is an issue with iOS 5 and the iPad. And, to add insult to injury, all the suggestions posted, while helpful, don't actually fix the issue. Sure wiping your iOS device and not restoring from backup will appear to fix the issue. However, once you start adding your apps, mail accounts, iCloud setup, and music (just to name a few), the issue returns and you are back at square one.

Having said this, I've done a good deal of troubleshooting on my own to see what I could do to at least minimize the number of crashes. Here is what I discovered:

Mail. Yep, that appears to be the memory hog. Up until recently, I had six email boxes configured of which four were IMAP, one GMAIL, one iCloud and one Exchange. With the Exchange email I had it configured to save all mail. Very bad idea (oink oink). The exchange email box was the first one to be removed. And, that limited my crashes to only a few web sites. Next to go was iCloud mail, lastly, one of the least used IMAP accounts. Now, I'm not saying that this is a solution. I'm just saying that it made things better, not perfect, just tolerable. But, it certainly confirms a memory issue (At least on the iPad 1 with only 256K of system memory).

iCloud - the only things I turn on is Find my iPad Documents & Data and Photo Stream. This is the limit. Anything else cause me issues

With all this said, I wonder why we have not heard from a single Apple representatvie on this thread? I know they monitor these forums. Just seems like we are being ignored here. Another curious things is that I've seen nothing reported on any of the tech sites I visit. Nothing, nada, on Engadet, MacRumors, TechCrunch, OS X Daily or ANY other sites. Why is that? I guess we need to shout a little louder and post something on these boards. Anyone concur my observations? It would be really nice for Apple to acknowledge this as an issue, step up to the plate and resolve this issue.

Feel free to chime in on suggestions on how we can be heard.