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Safari crashes on iPad after ios 5 update

Anyone elses Safari crash constantly after updating your iPad 1 to IOS 5? Try surfing Apple's own website. Thanks

Posted on Oct 13, 2011 9:34 AM

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Nov 28, 2011 2:15 PM in response to g8k3pr

Hey, I totally agree. I have always been a PC person and had gotten sick of hearing all the Apple people saying what "problem free" devices they had. I got an iPad because of a ton of recommendations and coersion from my friends and based on my personal experience, I have NEVER had the amount of trouble with any of my PC or Andriod devices that I have had with my iPad. From my own personal experience, Apple ain't nothin' special no more. (If they ever were.)

Nov 28, 2011 2:25 PM in response to paulcb

I've given feedback (although on the iPad support site. Your link was to iPhone). I also sent an email to a couple of writers on some of the tech blogs. It might be useful if others do the same. What I don't understand is why no blogs or articles on these problems. Do the bloggers/reporters not have iPads running ios5? Everyone I know who has an iPad is having major issues. When the iPhone 4S battery issue became apparent it was everywhere. Doesn't this seem as big of a bug?

Please call AppleCare too.

Nov 28, 2011 4:49 PM in response to petemj23

The frustrating thing is that iOS4.3.3 was VASTLY superior to iOS5.0.1 in the sense that iOS5.0.1 rendered my iPad1 nearly unuseable, and it is less than half the machine it used to be -- and I can't help but think that Apple had either

1) not tested iPad1 enough, or

2) ignored the problems for publicity (hey! our old model can run the latest software).


Either way, it seems wiser now to have abandoned the iPad1 in the land of iOS4.

Nov 29, 2011 1:29 AM in response to petemj23

Well last night after advice about it being an app that is causing the crashing, I did a factory fresh install, did not load any apps and..... Safari is still crashing. ios5 = i-Poo, Apple, please give us 4.3.3 until you get this sorted, pppllease!


On a side note, could everyone visiting this page please leave a comment, even if it's just 'Still Crashing', then copy the above link and post it on Facebook or wherever just to get noticed by more people, Apple must take note then.

Nov 30, 2011 7:48 AM in response to g8k3pr

Thats exactly how I fixed the issue with my ipad2 by reconfiguring the ipad 2 as new and removing MS Outlook and just installing apps that are absolutely required.I have also noticed that in my iphone 4S, siri has issues working with the memory hog issues and I had to re-install the iphone 4S as new and again with minimal apps & it started working. I saw that Apple has seeded ios 5.1 beta to developers for testing. so hopefully this will magically resolve all these issues.

Nov 30, 2011 4:35 PM in response to petemj23

I just wanted to let everyone know that I am still crashing. I have tried most of the "fixes" since I first posted here back in Oct. (page 2) short of a complete wipe and have just resigned myself to having to restart Safari a half a dozen times anytime I am trying to surf the news. Had to give up playing any games that have cool graphics and delete others. I enjoyed my iPad 1 so much I bought one for my wife and a MacBook Pro and now I find that fixes are worse/slower in coming than they were in my old Windows/PC days, they just co$t more (the computers). At least with a PC you can restore to an earlier date! I am in a position that I deal with a lot of different folks and have been telling everyone I see with an iPad "Don't upgrade to iOs 5 because it will ruin your iPad". Very disappointed with Apple's lack of response after releasing this iOs when it clearly was not tested on iPad 1 and has ruined my experience.


Not bragging about Mac/apple anymore.

Safari crashes on iPad after ios 5 update

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