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H2oplayer Author

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Ios7 problems, safari crashes

This new iOS 7 has ruined the whole ipad experience for me. I use this as a browser, email tool and music library. The browser randomly crashes on a very frequent bases, some times a page opens and other times the same page crashes safari and I have to relaunch. The browser seems sluggish I feel like I just took a giant step backwards. Email is clunky and slow to respond, requires multiple touches to change folders. Music sound terrible, has hangs in sound and generally sounds glitchy. Not at all enjoyable.

I wish I had just kept dismissing the pop up asking me to update.

If you asked me a week ago about the ipad I would have told you it was great. If it was lost or stolen I would run out that day and buy a replacement. Ask me now and I would say good riddance.

Apple really blew it on this one, they took an excellent product and turned it into a frustrating pile of hardware. If ios7 was not intended for the ipad 2 why are their servers pushing it out to devices that they should not.

I have searched and found that I am not alone in these problems but have not seen any solutions.

iPad 2, iOS 7

Posted on Oct 1, 2013 8:22 AM

471 replies

bob.c

Level 1

12 points

Dec 9, 2013 8:12 PM in response to Mini-Mac

Hi Mini-Mac: I have done the same thing, backed up everything in both icloud and itunes, then did a complete recovery wipeout of my mini. I have been putting it thru the paces with just the original app's, trying every one. Mostly using safari, into yahoo and doing lots of reading but no games. The crashes are less but still happen, black screen with or without apple in middle. At times the iPad will come back but usually stay black. If I close the cover of my case, the slider screen with come back in 10 to 15 minutes, but then will crap out after starting browsing or just reading. Haven't been to the apple store (50 miles away) and I bought this thing thru amazon...am I really screwed on this, as it is only 6 months old? It really ****** me off, as I have three old mac's 10 to 15 years old which still keep plugging on!

Dec 10, 2013 9:53 AM in response to Meeka37

Correct. I have had the Safari-crashing problem on all of my iOS devices ever since the first version of iOS 7 came out, and it continues now with iOS 7.0.4. Each time there was an update, I eagerly downloaded it expecting it to be the fix I've been waiting for. No such luck. If anything, in 7.0.4 the problem is even worse than before. Unbelievable.

Beano70

Level 1

0 points

Dec 11, 2013 4:00 AM in response to H2oplayer

I'm also experiencing many Safari-related crashes on my iPad Air - several crashed every day with the latest iOS 7.0.4 version 😟

I'm considering going back to my old iPad 3 if this is not fixed VERY SOON 😟

I'm surprised this critical issue is not mentioned on any Apple or gadget related site?

Dec 11, 2013 6:02 AM in response to H2oplayer

Same here. I've been an Apple iOS user since the original iPhone, and my new iPad air is so unstable, I can hardly do anything productive with it. Safari crashes almost every browsing session, and at work, my iPhone 5s is useless in meetings, since when I go to look things up in safari, it crashes quite frequently. I've noticed that loading PDFs from safari links is especially problematic, and that's something I do quite often, looking at server specifications and performance reports from my datacenter. Pages with embedded media are also problematic.

This used to be a great platform, Apple. If this isn't fixed soon, I need to look for an alternative.

Dec 12, 2013 8:48 AM in response to H2oplayer

Yep- me too, just jumping in here. If they don't fix this error now, and ensure this doesn't happens moving forward, we will be transitioning our business clients to android or windows

Katuak

Level 1

5 points

Dec 13, 2013 2:32 AM in response to H2oplayer

Same issue here. Genius Bar guy told me to use Chrome on my brand new iPad Air (!) They ran a diagnostic and said Safari is pulling too much power from the processor.

The Air is a premium device so sort it out, Apple, and stop pretending it's the websites' fault.

Dec 13, 2013 6:52 AM in response to Katuak

Chrome crashes too. Just as bad as Safari even worse!!!!

Dec 13, 2013 3:18 PM in response to H2oplayer

Its not productive anymore. Jquery and other-driven things won't work precisely. Hotfix (please)!

Dec 14, 2013 12:50 AM in response to ronfromtoronto

IOS 7.1 release date ??

or is it hotfix 7.0.5 coming to solve this problem?

minakic

Level 1

0 points

Dec 16, 2013 7:08 AM in response to ronfromtoronto

iPhone 5c iOS 7.0.4 Safari crash

chall5

Level 1

4 points

Dec 16, 2013 11:28 AM in response to minakic

just wanted to chip in and say Safari on my iPad Air crashes way more than my iPad 3, its getting annoying

Dec 16, 2013 11:50 AM in response to H2oplayer

I'm thinking this almost has to be a problem with the new 64-bit processors (and a really big problem at that). Hopefully this is something they can fix with a patch.

psmyth

Level 1

18 points

Dec 16, 2013 12:03 PM in response to nerfTractor

Except it's not confined to 64 bit machines. I see it as much on my iPad 4 as I did on the iPad air I returned.

pleask55

Level 1

0 points

Dec 16, 2013 1:20 PM in response to psmyth

Yep that's too true!

We're now onto our 3rd iPad Air .. (Replacements done at Apple's advice).

This has totally crashed on us .. Courier picking it up today to return to Apple.

Now we are switching over to an all Galaxy world with the new Samsung Galaxy 10.1 2014 (note 3) to add to our already non-problematic Galaxy Family.

We are aware this iOS 7 problem is not just confined to 64bit machines .. As it's also happening on our 32bit iPads as well .. ie. our iPad 2 & iPad 3's.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY !

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Dec 16, 2013 2:26 PM in response to psmyth

Correct. I remain convinced that the main problem here is a major flaw in iOS 7, which (one would think) should be fixable with a software update, and hopefully will be fixed in the upcoming 7.1 (fingers crossed). As I have posted many, many times by now, Safari-crashing problem began for me on my iPad 2 and iPhone 5 as soon as I updated from iOS 6 to iOS 7. Safari on those devices was working fine before iOS 7; it's been crashing ever since.

The crashes continue on my iPad Air. The simple fact is that Apple put out a half-baked operating system that doesn't function properly even on its newest hardware.

Ios7 problems, safari crashes