Since updating to ios5 and the latest versions of iWork for the iPad, all programs keep crashing. I can't open anything. I've tried all the usual fixes, but nothing works. Would love some advise from Apple before I go APE! I cannot rely on my iPad now for keynote presentations. ICloud will not download new items from the cloud too - just hangs.
This happened to me once before with another update and also affected other non-apple apps. Did you try completely powering down the iPad (hold down the power until you see the swipe to shut down). When you restart the iPad, if that doesn't work, try holding down both the power button and the home button until the iPad restarts.
You are not alone in this mayhem. I downloaded Pages months ago and it does need an update now and the worst thing is I cannot view my Assignments anymore. I am not so not impressed with Apple at all. I am spending so much time trying to figure out how to download icloud and iSO 5.0 I am gutted.
My Problem is, that I can import a spreadsheet from my iMac, I can also open it, but I can't use it, because if I touch a field with a formula running in the background Numbers crashes immediately. So for me this is completely useless at the moment.
I had the problem of numbers crashing down every time I wanted to keep working with a previously made spreadsheet. The fact is that that was the only spreadsheed that would crash when trying to edit it and indeed, it is the assistance template.
I had made more sheets from zero and those ones remained unaffected. Reinstalling the app did not work and it kept collapsing, so I came up with the idea of duplicating the problematic sheet and erase the original one and it just worked. I can now keep working with my data without crash. I hope this helps to guide anybody who might have the same problem as I did, fortunately the issue didn't get bigger just affecting one spreadsheet.
Hope you have luck people and that Apple faces its issues, for we have paid for this apps and they just MUST.
I don't know what the "usual fixes" are, but I tried a few things with a broken Numbers file, such as restarting, exporting and reimporting as a Numbers doc, and upgrading to ios 5.0.1. What DID WORK for me was to export to XLS via email, and re-import. All the formulas came through just fine but the formatting was of course broken. After an hour of rearranging tables I'm back up and running, but the table styles are still a bit off. (And the original file still crashes, while the rebuilt clone file works fine.)
Do you have action menu plus pack or backgrounder installed? If yes, try to disable it first. I did that and numbers, pages and keynote never crash/
MetaRain78 wrote:
Do you have action menu plus pack or backgrounder installed? If yes, try to disable it first. I did that and numbers, pages and keynote never crash/
Are you sure you're talking about iOS? It sounds as if you're suggesting solutions for the Mac versions of the software.
Disabling Action Menu Plus fixed the problem on my iPad 3 - thanks.
No, that was the solution for iOS.
Thanks.
Ah, the solution for a jailbroken device. Discussion of jailbreaking is not permitted.
Why not?
It is not permitted by Apple. Their forums, their rules.
Fair enough. Seems strange that they would want to stop 10% of iDevice owners talking about their devices, but, like you say, it's their forum.
Keynote, Numbers, and Pages Crash
