Ios7 problems, safari crashes

I don't remember if I owned the iPad 1, but I have had the 2, 3, 4, and now the Air. I have never, ever had any issue I would genuinely consider significant until this. Safari crashing out several times a day, the iPad itself crashing to the Apple boot screen every few days, it's just crazy. As if the Safari crash wasn't bad enough, sometimes, just completely randomly, starting Safari again results in the page I had open being gone, replaced by the new tab screen. I have never personally experienced a bug this out of control.

To make it worse, I did take it to the Genius Bar before I found this thread, knowing full well it was most likely a software issue, but I wanted to be sure. The guy at the Genius Bar said he knew nothing about it, pointed out that the Air has double the RAM of the 4, and that this issue shouldn't be an issue. He then told me I should power down once a day, and that would solve my problem. Even if that were the case, which it isn't, I tried to explain to him that I NEVER had to power down the 4, so why should I have to with the newer, better, more powerful iteration? I can't imagine doing something so drastic as buying any other tablet, as people in this thread have been both doing and threatening, but I am very disappointed that something this irritating somehow made it past the beta. I mean, completely mismanaging the RAM, that's terrible.

I've had the same things with an iPad 4. Since iOS 7. Even on a replacement.

But no, I'm not giving up on the device. I just wonder why Apple is not communicating with the Geniuses.

I wonder if tech support and the Geniuses are told not to say they know of this issue. I can't imagine it''s an obscure problem that they haven't encountered multiple times from customers and possibly for themselves.

I understand the are required to Clear History after each customer. It's a low-memory thing.

Since so many commenters are quick to mention that this forum may or may not be monitored by Apple, I submitted feedback directly to them earlier today stating what has been discussed in this thread and also trying to make it clear that this is not some isolated issue for power geeks. It's happening a lot and needs some serious attention.

PROBLEM SOLVED: Go to Settings > Safari and the. Clear the cookies and data and then clear the history.

No no... this case is NOT SOLVED.

Worked for me..

I'm specifically referring to the problem where EVERY SINGLE TIME one tries to open another Safari tab by pressing the + button, Safari crashes.. For me that's the problem that was fixed.. Perhaps this thread has become a huge compilation of many Safari issues.. All of which clearing the cache and history obviously won't amend.

The constant crashing also happens in many other situations so I would not consider this case closed until the problem is addressed.

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN;

Yes, this is a LONG thread that would take a bit of time to skim through all the replies.

BUT if you were to do so, you'd find (somewhere around page 8 or 9) that Apple Engineering has acknowledged that this is a bug and that a fix is on the way. No delivery date has been promised.

Four or five posters to this thread spent a great deal of time on the phone with Senior Support staff, pulling reports and sending crash logs to Engineering - AND THEY HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED THIS IS A BUG!

So please, quit all the b*tching about Apple in denial.

I have not really had this specific problem of Safari crashing whenever you try to open a new tab; and I've seen posts here saying people had that problem and managed to fix it. My main problem is Safari just crashing constantly in general, with no definite pattern. And a problem that seems to be related is Safari "crashing" in the background when you switch to another app so that when you switch back to Safari it is refreshing itself and has logged you out of sites you happened to be logged into. Those are the major problems that I'm still waiting for a fix of.

It's not like his is just a problem with IOS 7. This has happened with plenty of others IPADs before IOS 7. This was also an issue when i had the IPAD 1,2, and 3. So unless they have seriously been working for years to fix I I'm pretty sure everyone can be upset with Apple. That's what these threads are for; specifically this one considering its a thread about Safari crashing.

Agreed. I am thankful to the posters here who spent time helping get Apple to acknowledge this and to Apple for now working on a fix. And it's important for anyone reading this thread to be reminded that this is in progress.

But, the griping here can still serve a few purposes. :-) (1) My posts at this point are mostly just for venting, since I have nothing better to do about it while waiting for a fix. (2) Keeping the heat on may hurry things along some, reminding Apple that this is a real problem that needs to be fixed ASAP. (Or maybe not--maybe it's just like repeatedly pushing an elevator button; won't make it come faster but makes you feel better.) (3) Even after this is fixed, I for one will remain very disappointed that Apple put out iOS 7 with such a major bug in the first place and then took months after the fact to resolve it. I expect that kind of thing from other tech companies (cough Microsoft cough) but not Apple. Apple needs to get its mojo back and not repeat this.

Sorry lebaz the bugs are in the plural and what I find particularly annoying is the pressure that has to be put on those senior advisors to openly admit that iOS7 has several bugs.

The Genius Bar brief need to change but with the Christmas market share at stake Apple is continuing to evade the responsibility for the problems generated by iOS7.0 after several attempts to patch it after the mass release. Try asking in the Apple Shops about the bugs in iOS7 and you only get an evasive answer even when the bug is demonstrated on the iPads on show and they are reluctant to enable full web browsing. Try http://www.neff.co.uk/request-a-brochure.html and try to download the sales brochure as this crashes during the download process prior to offering alternative storage for reading.

I am still pestering the Senior Advisors in the UK for news of progress and if the bugs I have reported are those being worked on. This is why I am so keen to keep the bug(s) acknowledgements in the plural as the problems are wider reaching than Safari used as a web browser. (memory release - functionality missing or corrupted in Jarva and or PDF processing - missing core functionality etc.)

Plea to all to keep asking for asistance through the Apple Support site to get support ticket numbers despite the name 'Apple Support Community' the Senior Advisors do not monitor the posts to the threads such as this one. Get those support request numbers and persist until your request gets escalated to the senior advisors.