Ios7 problems, safari crashes

All the VOODOO crap is not going to magically do it, clean well written code and MEM management.

I have tons, tons of college and business associates that have same issue, Safari crashes daily.

I have tried all the suggestions in this thread, and none have work for any length of them. I may buy some time, but that is it.

.. This is BRILLIANT LordE ..

3 hours and holding after your iCloud/Safari Settings advice.

Testing on iPad 2 and 3.

Cannot test on iPad Air as we sent all 3 back at Apple's request due to the known problems.

I will post up your advice/tip on our site with Creds & link to you.

AGAIN - BRILLIANT and THANKS!

Pete/ed

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ah, now i see you said that - sorry, i failed to read the replies after i posted my suggestion. 🙂

by the way, there seems to be some confusion here.

so let me clarify a little bit:

before i accidentally figured out the "iCloud fix", the Safari on my iDevices (1 x iPhone 4, 1 x iPad 2) didn't work at all;

i mean, if i tap the Safari icon back then, a blank Safari app skeleton appeared on screen, and it just disappeared in a few seconds.

so i could not even try anything with Safari on my iDevices.

then i came across the iCloud fix when i happened to look at the bookmarks bar of the Safari browser on my iMac, and the fix (at least) enabled me to "use" the Safari browser again on my iDevices.

but yes, the Safari still crashes (=suddenly terminates while browsing something and kicks me all the way back to home screen) from time to time,

and yes, obviously there must be some loose ends in the memory management scheme in Safari on iOS 7 - e.g., crashing while zooming suggests that the zooming op implementation is very naive: like "enlarge all the visible contents first, then crop" instead of "estimate the contents rectangle to be enlarged to fit the cropping rectangle after enlargement, then enlarge just the area estimated"

of course such loose ends are not tolerable, so those must be taken care of by Apple.

well, so my point is:

what i meant by "Safari crash" is "Safari crashes (=disappears) every single time, right after i tried opening the Safari browser. so i cannot even try anything with the Safari browser."

and what i meant by "solution" is "i was able to *use* the Safari again after i did it, though Safari still kept on crashing from time to time."

thanks. 🙂

Safari has NEVER crashed on my 64gb iPad gen 3, my 64gb iphone5 or my wife's 32gb iPad air. We use them for work and pleasure, for many hours each day.

Some web sites are just built very poorly. Don't blame Apple, blame the sites you're visiting.

Apple devices, iOS7 and Mavericks are incredibly stable so stop immediately blaming them for your problems and look to the real cause ..... The sites you are visiting, or perhaps user ignorance.

My website never crashed running iOS6...I wrote the code.

My website always crashes running iOS7...same code runs perfect on all tablet brands and smartphone brands.

Apple iOS7 is very poorly written with numerious BUGS, and should have never been released.

Kevin, I'm might agree if I had not seen the problems on two iPad 4s and an Air on sites that were quite stable pre-iOS 7. I've had a senior advisor confirm it's a problem.

I'm not giving up on Apple or iPad.

But you really are blowing smoke on a problem you don't really get.

If Safari can't handle the ESPN site, Safari has a problem.

What it your website please.,, and I will try it on my iPad air and see

If mine crashes.,,

Stop blaming websites or "user ignorance"! I have been using iOS devices for several generations now, and most of the websites that frequently crash on me ever since iOS 7 were WORKING JUST FINE BEFORE IOS 7!!! Not to mention that there is no particular pattern here--while some sites seem more prone to crashing than others, the crashes are not limited to specific sites. I'm no techie, but probably am a lot less "ignorant" than your average iOS device end user. A device and operating system that are DESIGNED for web browsing should work with THE INTERNET AS IT IS! Otherwise it's useless. If a car company were selling a car with such uncontrollable steering that experienced drivers were constantly running off typical roads and crashing would "just drive on wider roads" be an acceptable response?

Technology end users shouldn't need to possess any special knowledge just to use a consumer device to browse the Internet. Apple's whole history and philosophy has been about taking computers out of the realm of mysterious devices that only hobbyists tinkered with into the daily lives of normal, everyday people who just want something that "works."

I'm glad your Apple devices are working fine for you. Sorry for all the shouting. I just take umbrage when someone suggests that I'm the one who's the idiot because something that should work fine and used to work fine for me suddenly stops working fine. And I'm especially galled when Apple and its apologists seem to respond with "oh, so you were wanting to use THAT Internet?"

It's unacceptable that Apple haven't acknowledged the problem and sorted a fix by now; the first post in this thread was on 1 October!

It's not just Safari being unusable on my Air, it's the camera software too. It won't switch between photo and video and chooses randomly which one of those to get stuck on.

I'm wondering if I should drive the 40 mins to the Apple store to complain yet again, when I know they'll just tell me it's my fault (my data on the ipad) or the websites I visit's fault or the weather's fault etc etc, not their fault - and have me do the 3rd restore, with all the inconvenience and pointlessness that that involves (solves nada).

I'm eyeing the nexus 7.

after owning ipad 1 ipad 4 and Air, I gave up, now running a Nokia Lumina 2520 and could not be happier.

Great for web surfing, email, facebook, twitter, youtube and netflix. i am not a gamer.

i will only return to Apple when IOS 7 hets fixed.

"It's unacceptable that Apple haven't acknowledged the problem and sorted a fix by now; the first post in this thread was on 1 October!"

And I actually created two threads on the topic on September 27. (I posted threads in both the iPhone and iPad forums because I noticed the problem on both my iPhone 5 and iPad 2.) I believe my two threads might have been the first ones posted here that were specific to Safari iOS 7 since I searched and didn't find any others. Notably, after years of using Apple products, this problem was the first one that was so severe it promoted me to register here and start posting. And I'm still waiting on a fix!!!

On a hopeful note, however, some posters here have said that Apple now has quietly acknowledged the problems with iOS 7 and working on fixing them with iOS 7.1, which should be released by Feb. 1. Fingers crossed.

Just like to add my long experience of this very real issue.

I had ipad 1 from the beginning. No safari crashing.

I had ipad 3 for a year. No safari crashing UNTIL I sadly updated to the first release of the dreadful iOS7. Then it started. My previously 100% reliable web browsing experience became suddenly prone to apparently random crashing. It appears completely without warning and no obvious pattern that I can detect. It happens pretty much on a daily basis. I strongly dislike ios7 in every respect and really wish I had never installed it. Applied the OS updates since, but no improvement to the terrible crashing.

I recently also bought an iPad air 32gb. Great hardware, but naturally the ios7 Safari crash is still there, just the same as on my ipad3.

Come on apple, please acknowledge this safari crashing issue and indicate when you hope to have a fix for it.

If you could also, give us a settings option to set ios7 to look, feel and operate just like ios6 that would win me back as an enthusiastic apple advocate!

Regards

Peter (UK)

I stand corrected. Just now spotted this thread started on September 24, predating mine: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5361917

I have a few different Apple devices and not all of them crash, but all of the devices purchased within the last year that are running iOS7 do crash. None are Jailbroken and all of them crash so it cannot be hardware. Also, old macs do not crash.

I don't know why.

I like Mavericks better than Mountain Lion, and it seems quite stable to me too.

But, iOS7 is not as stable as iOS6. That is plain as day to anyone with an iPhone 5s who previously had an iPhone 5. You can defend the company till your blue in the face (and I still think Apple is pretty great) but they have a rather visible problem with safari and iOS7 for many people.

I have an iPhone 5 and an iPhone 5s both on iOS7 and no problems at all,.. i have an iPad mini Retina on iOS7 and no porblems at all, the olny problem i has was with my iPad air, with safari crashing, which is now ok after i did the icloud safari sync suggested on this thread,..