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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

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Mar 10, 2014 1:57 PM in response to H2oplayer

I bought my iPad Air the week they came out.


IF it is still crashing on all my favorite web sites and they come out with a new iPad Air with more RAM in September/Octobor time frame I'm going to demand a new one. It will likely be out of warranty by then and they will refuse, but what else am I going to do?


They really should have bumped RAM when they went to 64bit dataspace. I hope they can fix it in software, but I'm beginning to wonder if they will just continue to ignore the problem.

Mar 11, 2014 1:31 AM in response to Johnspierce

This is the third message I have written in this thread, noone seems to pay attention. I worked for many years in software engineering:


(1) In my opinion, the crashing problem will never get fixed, because the underlying software was misdesigned;


(2) Few large public companies can produce great software, because corporate politics usually gets in the way. (Google, and Apple under Jobs, are exceptions)


(3) Unless the blogs or press pay attention, which I doubt will happen since they haven't yet, Apple has no incentive to acknowledge or to fix this problem.

Mar 11, 2014 1:50 AM in response to kendradog

kendradog wrote:


This is the third message I have written in this thread, noone seems to pay attention. I worked for many years in software engineering:


(1) In my opinion, the crashing problem will never get fixed, because the underlying software was misdesigned;


(2) Few large public companies can produce great software, because corporate politics usually gets in the way. (Google, and Apple under Jobs, are exceptions)


(3) Unless the blogs or press pay attention, which I doubt will happen since they haven't yet, Apple has no incentive to acknowledge or to fix this problem.


Your message was the first thing that came to my mind the very second Safari crashed again. I don't want to overreact and stay cool but I am beginning to fear you are right.


This spells doom for Apple. I makes me much less eager to invest in Apple hardware, regardless whether it is running iOS or MacOSX. Next tablet or phone is likely an Android. Next PC probably a Nuc running Ubuntu, like the previous one. It hurts me to write this, having been an Apple fan since System 7. The slide has started.

Mar 11, 2014 5:03 AM in response to H2oplayer

Well it's early days yet, I only just updated an hour ago, but I'm quite encouraged to see that this site.....


http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/


Now works perfectly using v7.1. On my iPad Air. It literally wouldn't work AT ALL before this update no matter how you tried. It crashed out every time. So something has definitely been improved.


I'm not saying the random safari crashes which I think many of us saw previously has been fixed. Only time will tell on that one.


I see they are trying to tweak the horrible iOS7 style in response to the many complaints. Lots of subtle emboldening of line buttons etc. but IMO it's still visually horrible compared to the old iOS6 graphical style which was great.


I still won't be upgrading my iPhone anytime soon, which I'm very happy to say is still running v6!


What's the point in having an amazing colour display screen, then making so much if it in dull umpteen shades of depressing flat grey?


Regards


Peter

Mar 11, 2014 5:40 AM in response to prawlin

With iOS 7.0x on my iPad Air, I had 4-5 Safari crashes each day - very annoying. Upgraded to 7.1 yesterday and have only used it 4-hours since, but without a single Safari crash, even on heavy scripted sites which crashed Safari before.


I will use my iPad 7-8 hours later today and hopefully the issue is fixed for me... *knocks on wood*

Ios7 problems, safari crashes

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