Ios7 problems, safari crashes

Hey keep the faith., Apple always comes good!

One thing for sure is they will fix it.,,

Unfortunately us early adopters of new tech

Are often Guinea pigs.,, six months from now

People will say 'what Safari crashes'

But hey I do get it, frustrating and not really

Good enough by Apples standards

Hi all,

I read through this forum and thought of all troubleshooting time and collective frustration we had gone through. Then I got to the recent posts about how everybody was so hopeful about the new release and how hopefully it would resolve this issue. As a gen1 owner who only upgraded to Air a month ago, I want to add something that has been raised only once and completely overlooked. I too on my iPad 1 experienced the crash with the browser in all forms and on all mainstream sites and then individual apps including mail. The same memory error in the debug log showed up over a year or two ago and kept on happening at an alarming rate this year, to the point that I stopped using my iPad 1 for browsing and used it only for email when it would not crash on email. The only difference is that iPad 1 couldn't be upgraded beyond 5.x, so this is not new to Apple. Never upgraded my old iPhone to 7 but didn't use it for apps or mush browsing either. There are more older posts before ios7 about safari crashing on iPads. It seems that Apple was correct to say this was an iOS issues, as they know better, having all of crash logs for the last 2 years. BTW, I did go to Apple store about 1.5 years ago and they told me my iPad was out of support therefore they return it. Seems it is the same story, different device, different ios. Oh, and they told me,'they had heard of his issue'. Ironically, I was told the same thing 2 weeks ago as well, when I took my Air back to get it fixed.

For those who have keep track of the specifics, I don't have an iCloud account (refuse to sign up for it), didn't restore old data into the new iPad air (yeap, backup/restore wasn't supported between iPad 1 and Air) and it crashes when using Pinterest's app. Pinterest even had a site up asking users to provide info so they could contact their users directly to see what they could do about it. Obviously they were dealing with many frustrated users very recently! Since now I get the same crashes on mainstream website, I have come to believe that Apple is no where closer to fixing this problem than they were 1.5 years ago and it is a willful decision, as it is not due to the lack of data or resource.

Will check back in feb-2014 to see what the verdict is for 7.1 and safari/apps/Air crash issues.

Happy Holidays.

Sorry meant to say Apple support said that they had NOT heard of safari crashing on iPad both times when I took my iPad 1 and then iPad Air to the store .Both suggested I reset and not restore from back up if this was due to corrupt data and so on and so fort. You know the story.

I've given up on Safari since Apples new update of iOS 7. Since then Safari no longer works on any of my iDevicesl. It lags and takes forever for anything to show up on the browser. This happens on my iPad 2, Mini iPad and iPhone 5 and it all began when I updated to iOS 7. Its pretty much made the Safari web browser totally useless. I've tried just about everything. Restoring, Restoring from backup, etc ... Nothing worked so my solution to this was I placed Safari into a folder of other useless apps and I now use Google Chrome as my web broswer on my iDevices. Thanks Apple for making my Safari browser completely useless.

try turning off the icloud safari sync, then turning it back on:

Settings > iCloud > Safari : turn the switch off, then choose to remove all safari data on device...

it may take a while turning it off with a spinning wheel shown on screen...

when it completes turning off the safari data, go check if the safari works now. (probably it will, i hope.)

then get back into the Settings > iCloud > Safari, and turn the switch back on.

may this be of help to you fellas.

I had found a way to make it work, and a solution i think, although it may not be to everyones liking. I've had the same problem, and managed to fix it, just by simply restoring my device to factory defaults, and then when i've set it up, if done so as a new phone. Therefor, no setting from the old version were imported, so do not restore your phone from the old version, do not sync it and you should be ok. I've done so with mine and all worked out perfectly

Just want to add my voice for anyone out there in Apple-world: I used to go to my i-pad for relief from my slow and buggy Windows web browser, but now that Apple has forced me to upgrade to iOS-7, they've actually driven me back to my buggy Windows browser as a relief from the horrible, crash-filled slowed-down Safari experience. So let me say this in all-caps: FIX THE SAFARI PROBLEMS, APPLE, AND SOON. You've taken a great operating system and made it a hundred times worse.

Yup you are definitely right. Seems to be a memory leak. It happens mostly on memory intensive HTML sites. Ironically my google news reader crashes at least 2x a session ;)

They will fix it... Love others comments of switching to Android assuming they don't have these problems.

Are you kidding me?! It is far worse in droid land

Apple should fix this super pronto though I agree that it detracts from the usual perfect experience they are known for

Fbsoft, let us know in several days if it's still working. Many of us have done this, even with brand new devices courtesy of Apple, with no success.

Happy Days

Hey thanks europaa.us, Tried what you suggested switching off icloud sync etc and so far so good

No crashes on safari for 2 days now.,, early days yes.,, but encouraging indeed!!

Just to mention after reading several posts on this thread.,, I don't know

If I have been lucky, but I have several iOS devices all running iOS7 (1x iPhone 5S, 1x iPhone 5C,

2 x iphone 5,1x iPad mini retina and 1x iPad Air) all my other devices have had no

Issues / no crashes on safari except for the iPad Air, which as I have said above

May now be ok due to the icloud sync remedy.,,

Hope this works for everyone else.,,

Will report back after a few more days of use to let you know if I

Am still a happy chap

Well... I have never used iCloud sync for anything than backup/restore when migrating to a new device. And still Safari crashes 3-4 times every day.

And most sites which covers Apple news, does not report on this issue, which doesnt help either :(

This problem is so crotical it should be big news, but nothing...

Recent posts seem to imply that iOS7 may be corrupting settings, since removing them and starting fresh works for some. It just seems random, and that it may be various settings stored in different locations. Starting with a new device could have the same issues if you are restoring from a backup or using your settings in the cloud. This has been the case for me in the past.

By the way, I immediately noticed a slowdown in wi-fi access with the ipad air. My previous ipad was a 2 and running 7, so wondering if the dual wi-fi streaming could be an issue. Right now my own photo library won't even load, and redraw.

Also have the same problem as many, with tabs, buttons, etc not responding. Also my email freezes constantly and i have to force quit the app to get it to work. I have reset many times--no point in doing a restore, since the problem has always still been in the restored backup for me in the past.

Frankly, I cant believe the huge risk Apple is taking. With Steve J gone, we have all just been waiting to see if they would drop the ball, and this is going to seriously impact their reputation. I would welcome suggestions of where to post to ENSURE this goes viral...

Both my iPhone and iPad mini have suffered all sorts of Safari related issues since the IOS update, but more so since turning on Safari bookmark synching with iCloud.

I tried the above suggestion to turn off iCloud Synching for Safari on my iPad mini. It failed and after that the iPad no longer can update apps. It behaves as though the requests are all queued up, and for some reason will no process till the "turn of synching" has completed. Which failed and leaves the iPad in limbo.

A previous suggestion was to reset the entire IOS device and not restore from backup.

I'm stalling on that alternative as far as possible and hope Apple will come with a better solution.

After years of blue screens of death on Windows PCs and having to re-install everything, I was just getting used to the higher sense of quality and reliability of IOS devices. At least on the PC, you had more control of what was going on as a developer and hacker. On IOS devices, you're at the whims of what Apple chooses to release.

Apple: What will you do about this? Would Steve Jobs have approved IOS 7?

The community: How can we react as responsible consumers and believers (for a while more)?