Q: Safari crashes on iPad after ios 5 update

Hank LV, the memory discussed here refers to the system memory (which is 256MB for iPad1). When you say your iPad2 has 64GB, it means its flash capacity. Think RAM and HDD in computer terms.

How can I unsubscribe to this forum thread? I went to my profile preference and marked everything "No" yet I still continue to receive the thread updates.

TIA.

EDIT: NVM, there was a link in the upper right that I clicked off.

JP,

Thanks for calling that to my attention. I assumed that the 64GB was carved up as the OS needed but it makes sense the way you describe it.

Talent try to have Apple listen. I truly think that the iPad is growing so fast and the first choice by Apple is to sell, sell, sell. The next is to have apps that entice sales to sore. BUT, if the iPad continues to dive on the basic Apple function SEARCH Safari...Apple has trouble with its Mother Ship SAFARI, and needs to make sure that it is function on all devices, and they will find that price is not the issue but rather the key is stability consistently.

Whoops... Meant Galant Try ... Not Talent Try.

Just to chime in, replying to the original poster.  After my IOS 5 upgrade of my Ipad 1, I had the same issues -- Safari constantly crashing.  Whereas in the prior 18 months it had crashed maybe twice.  Really.   From the system log, I see the same thing he sees.  Which is that it's simply memory-starvation, exacerbated by having the cloud turned on -- I think for bookmark sync, primarily, that's the big culprit at least in my case.   With bookmark sync turned on, there is some kind of mail object that is constantly running -- and crashing.   Turn off bookmark sync, and sure enough, the crashes have gone way down in number.   

One other thing that helped was to 'Clear Cookies and Data'.   What's way stupid, though, is that these things are combined.  No way to delete data, and yet save cookies.   Very irritating.

IOS 5.x Safari has additional bugs, though.  When you navigate back to a page, it will frequently happen that you get a stale version of the page, which it evidently is pulling out of its data cache.  This is not just an Ipad thing.  I see the same thing on my iPhone 4. 

Something that drives me nuts is that when even just TWO tabs are open, you can't return to another tab without it LOADING THE WHOLE PAGE OVER AGAIN.  (Unless maybe the pages are teensy in size.)   Which is VERY irritating.   Bad design Apple!!  Surely even with just 256MB you can do better.   Other browsers don't seem to have this issue!

Hi everyone,

I got my iPad1 about a month ago, with iOS 4.x. Everything worked fine until upgrading it to iOS 5. Now ist crashes on a regular base. During a search on how to fix this problem I found this page http://lanceulanoff.tumblr.com/post/8618621769/apple-ipads-crashing-secret

Which says that all the Apps are running in the background even after going back to homescreen, by purpose or by crash.

Maybe everyone allready knows, but by double clicking on the home-button all running (and thereby memory-using) apps will show. If you keep your finger on them until they vibrate, you can close them by clicking the "-" in their upper right corner.

This should free up some memory.

I can even open the killer-link from page 4 now, but just with all other tabs closed.

This was the answer for me, thanks so much!

FYI ... the link about background apps is incorrect in some of its statements. The list of apps in the multi-tasking bar are not all running. Some of them may be alive in the background, but most of them are not and are just listed as being one of the "recently used apps". They are listed as a mechanism to quickly go back to a recently used app.

If the app is alive in the background (and there is no way of knowing whether or not it is), removing it from the multi-tasking bar does indeed kill the app.

iOS is "supposed to" automatically kill all background apps when the foregroud app needs more memory.

I'm an App developer and have had experience dealing with apps running out of memory, and I think if an app requests a lot of memory at once, iOS may not be able to act quickly enough in terminating background apps. Maybe this is why manually terminating background apps helps.

I am also a developer, and iPad 1 after iOS 5 is borderline useless. Best example:

http://www.apple.com/retail/grandcentral/

Goto pictures, select last 360 puc, try to tilt from portrait to landscape. Crash.

And no iCloud sync, and ZERO background suspended apps.

It has nothing to do with Apps, I don't have any installed and my new (replacemant from Apple) iPad2 crashed within 4 words when replying to a forum thread, first thing I did!!

Apple have made a brilliant device useless!!

They are sure not leaving a good legacy for Steve Jobs.

Rightly or wrongly he could be associated to this last release, a bit of a shame about both.

I do seem to find if I type slower I get through more. Or just seems like it :).

I will not type more else it will crash.

Hi, found this discussion after trying to sort out my problem with my iPad 1 many, many times with restoring, clearing data, cache etc.

Frustrating stuff. Tried to read for solutions, but gave up after browsing through this thread too..

My problems:

Safari crashes..

Old pages load in Safari when using back-button..

Images in newspapers end up getting mixed when I hit back-button in Safari..

Slow Safari..

iCal won't load properly..

Extremely slow sync on iCal..

Missing happenings in iCal..

Have been discussing on this forum: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3404713?start=0&tstart=0

Apple is watching for sure..

My iPad has lost it's value after I installed last iOS. Been like this for far too long. Loosing patience!

Now:

Regret having bought iPhone 4s!

Having problems with a noisy fan on my "too new" iMac (Apple not beeing very willing to help me)!

Ordered LaCie portable harddisk oct 4th; still not shipped! Apple constantly trying to get me to choose another product and constantly trying to get me to pick a cheaper product and pay for the more expensive that they were supposed to ship (they have made me the offer over and over again, still after I told them on phone)..

Have taken the decision to not let Apple into my TV solution!

I started buying only Apple products for computers, phones, handheld units (iPads) ten years ago.

Now; not too keen on buying a single item from Apple store again and participating in discussions at work dissing Apple.

I really hate it, but Apple has served me too many reasons to choose other brands!

Thank you all for reading (Apple too?)!

That is a good example Edmund. Should be something Apple can easily duplicate and use as a basis to solve at least some of the issues mentioned here.

Safari on my iPad 1 with IOS5 crashes frequently. For me this does not make it useless but is a significant inconvenience. Sounds like a lot of people are having more serious problems.

I will not install Lion on my iMac until they issue an upgrade which gets much better response from users. With Apple's excellent record it is very difficult to understand why they are suddenly releasing these poor products.