Ios7 problems, safari crashes

Very good to hear! Can you check it a bit further and tell us a little more? Like: open the home page of several heavy sites (like The Verge, for example) and check how many of them you can keep open and fully loaded before it starts reloading them. Once you reach the limit what if you go to another app like youtube or the note app or google now (if you use it) and then go back to Safari? Does it reload? Thank you!

I have been looking for impressions on beta 3 on other Apple-centric forums too and beta 3 doesn't solve much and introduces bugs of its own to boot.

After lots of trials and errors and "building knowledge" on this whole issue I feel we are dealing with 2 largely separate issues here:

- iOS7's bugs (this o.s. really, REALLY felt like an unfinished beta when it was released and has really not improved much in the long months since...)

- first gen 64bit iDevices' insufficient RAM and an architecture which seems far away from getting adequate SW support.

So there are less issues with 32bit iDevices, especially those with 1GB of RAM (and, most importantly, those are FIXABLE issues via software updates! although I have a feeling it will be a long wait...) and more issues on 64bit ones (part of which CANNOT be fixed via software, just like iPhone4's Antennagate and iPad3's inadequate specs couldn't be fixed via software...).

roadkill_97006 wrote:

If diagnostics showed a memory problem then they should replace it. No more attempting to cure it with "fresh air and sunshine"!

The "memory problem" is that there is too little of it, period.
Replacing the device (or restoring it, or setting it as new or any other pointless time-wasting try we are told to attempt) solves NOTHING.

In iOS7 there surely are memory leaks and bugs of all sorts but the problem is here to stay even when (and who knows when that will be...) Apple will finally fix all of the iOS7's bugs and bad memory management because 1GB of RAM on 64bit devices is like 512MB on the iPad3: bloody useless.

roadkill_97006 wrote:

If my iPad Air was half as stable as my iPad 3 I'd be happy. The solution is, as you say, fix the memory management. If necessary, kick out background apps to free memory up. It's like they kick out the running app instead. Google Earth constantly groans about being low on memory, but hasn't crashed.

You already can disable background apps "auto-refresh" and it solves nothing. Other mobile operating systems have REAL multitasking and can run in 1GB RAM without issue (yes with a limited number of active apps running at the same time but with WORKING and REALLY MULTITASKING background processes active).

iOS's "multitasking", OTOH, is still very much a work in progress and Apple doesn't seem to be able to crack it yet...

Upping the RAM would go a long way towards alleviating these issues (and it would give a MUCH better experience even once the problems are fixed as you could run MORE apps, you could have MORE tabs in the browser and so on without having to reload them every time you switch between them losing your inputted data, the zoom level, the position in the page/app and so on...) but they seem to go the OPPOSITE way: on 64bit iDevices the already ludicrous 1GB RAM is even "smaller" as 64bit apps have a larger memory footprint (and iOS7 is quite "heavier" itself as the free memory available has become smaller even on 32bit 1GB RAM iDevices once they are updated to iOS7).

Several folks have found that resetting all settings and resetting the iPad will solve the problems you describe.

First use the Settings app

Settings > General > Reset > Reset all Settings

Then reset your device like this. Press and hold the Home and Sleep buttons simultaneously until the Apple logo appears. Let go of the buttons and let the device restart. See if that fixes your problem.

I concur entirely.

It was a massive mistake to install io7 and I now dont even want to turn my ipad3 on!

Apple have well and truly dropped the ball and ruined any good will I held with them.

I feel like snapping the thing over the desk and getting a different tablet altogether.

I have tried to reset to an earlier version by putting it into DFU mode but to no avail.

Since 'updating' to this travesty its wiped half of the contents on the ipad, and the apps I need no longer work.

Why cant I simply revert back to an earlier ios, its like apple are treating loyal customers with disdain.

Just throwing my 2 cents in: I have the same issues although not as bad on iPad 4. Sound and music is fine, but safari crashes regularly for me. Been browsing for a half hour and it's crashed 4 times which is why I googled and found this. Some sites are ok, but I notice it more with "heavy" sites. Sites with interactive media, .pdfs, many images in a slider, etc.

Also, even though this is the latest iPad, it's more sluggish than ios 6. It's not huge, but delays in actions seem to have doubled for me. If it took 1 second before to open safari, it now takes 2. If scrolling up and down the page was seamless before, it slightly stutters now. Sometimes I have to tap multiple times to select stuff- this was never an issue for me before. This may not sound like a lot but since it happens across the board, it's very frustrating and detracts from the overall experience.

iMessages won't send sometimes. A few times a day I have to reset my iPad / iPhone just to be able to txt. Messages just hangs there at "sending message"

Last, siri doesn't recognize my voice as well. This is happening on both iPhone and iPad since ios 7 update. I used to use the texting feature heavily while driving. "Text John Doe I'm on my way" sometimes plays music, sometimes texts John Doe "Doe I'm on my weight" and so on. Also, when siri says "here is your message to ___ would you like to send?" I always used to reply with " read it back to me" so I wouldn't have to undock my phone or drive dangerously by looking at it. Now, that phrase will copy my in to the text, sending to John Doe and myself OR it will say it didn't understand "ribald didactic Emmy" or something else totally ridiculous. I bring this up only because this is something that used to work fairly well on 6 and is now unreliable enough that I'm thinking about jumping ship and getting an android and hoping it's more reliable.

Same problem Safari crashing. iOS 7, latest iPad.

It seems to happen for sure on an espn.com page (with video?) when I go to the comments section, and only after a pinch-zoom. I think it also happened on another site with a comments section. I haven't seen this on my iPhone 5 with iOS 7, but will check more closely.

I'm holding off on the Reset, too, although said you "might" try this.

I'm having the exact same issues on the iPad 2. Constant browser crashes on the Guardian website which I have used daily for 2 years without a hitch. The device I rely on for internet browsing is so unreliable now I'm considering getting rid of it unless an update arrives very quickly.

I nearly got rid after they ruined maps until Google came to the rescue. Now they've done it again with the browser!

This would never have happened under Steve Jobs!

+1!!!! Same experience with iPad 3 + IOS 7 on specific (heavy) web sites. The advice to reset just about everything and restarts helps, but only for a short while...... Then the problem comes back just as bad.

Please Apple, accpet that this may be a bufg related to IOS 7 and GET WORKING TO SOLVE IT!!!

It seems to happen to me on sites with certain kinds of comment sections and/or video. But not all.

iOS 7 new iPad.

Same for me. My ipad 2 is now jerky and laggy in most apps. All the fluidity and beautiful design have gone. It is now no better than a jerky, laggy, ugly android pad. It is just astonishing that apple could have released an OS that ages their products by two years. I will never trust apple again - will definitely not buy mavericks - certainly not going to pay to have my MacBook ruined too.

Safari on IOS 7 is unusable for many sites. It appears that Safari on IOS7 needs much more memory than the IOS6 version to run the javascript on a page. Sites that work on every browser I ever tried, on any device, now crash on the fancy IOS 7.

It does help a little bit to close all other apps before using Safari.

A more technical discussion on the subject (but without a real solution) can be found at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18759401/google-map-crashes-in-ios7

I've reported this behaviour as a bug at Apple but no news on that yet. I advice other to do the same.

I'm going to tweet this to some of the Apple/iPad/Mac feeds.mall should do this.m

Apple should be embarrassed when their tech support people haven't heard of this.

I reports this as well.