Ios7 problems, safari crashes

After installing 7.1, I will say it's "better".

http://www.outdoorphotographer.com/ seems to work everytime now and has not crashed my iPad. Before the 7.1 update, this web site would crash it every time all the way back to the day I bought the Air.

The iPad Air review on 9 to 5 Mac will not crash it in "swipe" mode, but in desktop mode it still crashes both Safari and Chrome, but not every single time like it did before.

http://9to5mac.com/2013/11/08/a-week-with-the-ipad-air-in-three-words-believe-th e-hype/

So, I will say they have improved memory management slightly. I have my diagnostics turned on with automatic send to Apple, hopefully they will figure out the rest of their issues.

Improved slightly, still unacceptable.

There are still pages that systematically crash, which work just fine on an old $100 Android phone with a 0,6GHz processor and 160MB ram (!!).

It's a shame.

If I had bought an iPad myself, I would want my money back.

Four days on 7.1, no crashes.

I used to get 3-4 crashes per day. Much improved experience!

Almost 5 days with heavy use, 2 Safari crashes on heavy scripted sites.

Before the 7.1 update I had 5-6 Safari crashes every day on my iPad Air, even on fairly plain sites.

So yeah it's a lot better now, but not perfect since it's still crashing.

I've had about the same experience since updating to 7.1.

On my iPad 4, maybe one crash.

New iPad Air, after a week, no Safari crashes, no low memory messages.

This site, http://www.postandcourier.com my local paper had steadily gotten worse, from no crashes in November to 5 or so per day before the update. So I'm watching it over time to see what happens.

It would be nice to see a technical explanation of the issue.

It would be nice to see a technical explanation of the issue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_leak

That's generic. An explanation of this bug, from Apple one someone who has looked at the code changes.

What would also be interesting would be an explanation of Apple's response and apparent lack of communication with their support people, even Geniuses. They apparently replace a lot of iPads without resolving he issue - right up to the update release.

We will never get a proper explanation for the issue, or even Apple officialy admitting there was a major issue. Will never happen.

It was/is probably a combination of several issues like poor implementation of their scripting engines, memory handling, etc. Not a single or easy fix, otherwise it would have been fixed much earlier - not 5-6 months after.

Apple also recently fixed a Safari exploit where sites could redirect to the app store without prompting the user. Apple never officially admitted that issue but seems fixed now.

What would also be interesting would be an explanation of Apple's response and apparent lack of communication with their support people, even Geniuses.

Yeah, that would be interesting.

But if they cared to explain that, I think they would have already fixed the bug in the first place.

Replacing iPads because of a software bug, OMG that's not lack of communication, that's either lack of neurons or lack of respect for their customers.

Not a single or easy fix, otherwise it would have been fixed much earlier - not 5-6 months after.

5-6 month? How do you know? It's not fixed yet.

That they are not capable of fixing it doesn't mean it's difficult, by the way.

That is the suprising part. I had already determined by trying certain web sites on multiple IOS devices that the problem was memory allocation/deallocation, but I had many people (including Apple support) telling me I should just get my iPad Air replaced. Ridiculous! It was clearly a software issue.

I'm sure it's still not perfect, since Apple decided to keep the RAM size the same even when they went to the more memory-intensive 64 bit dataspace, but at least it's liveable now.

Apple will never really tell us what they did to fix the problem, that's not their way. I think they make a great product and they do take care of issues, but they are notorious for not admitting they have a problem in the first place.

Oh well, at least my iPad Air isn't crashing 3-4 times per day anymore.

Installed a Microsoft surface 2 RT edition for a customer. As the old Apple adage goes , "it just works". Funny how a $450 tablet runs circles around my $850 iPad Air. Apple and iOS7 is like a Porsche and using ethanol gas. We all paid for a Porsche and were given a defective GM.

Unfortunately I came to the same conclusion. I loved my new iPad Air, but could not take the constant web crashing. So as I type this response on my Nokia 2520 Windows RT tablet, it just works.

It sounds like 7.1 has made thngs better, though I am not sure I will purchase an Air again.

I use a tablet for consumption only and I am very happy with my current choice.

"5-6 month? How do you know? It's not fixed yet."

What are you talking about?

As I said, it's not completely fixed but wastly improved (read my post again). So they have finally done something right with the 7.1 update - after 5-6 months.

"That they are not capable of fixing it doesn't mean it's difficult, by the way."

What are you smoking again?

What are you talking about?

As I said, it's not completely fixed but wastly improved (read my post again). So they have finally done something right with the 7.1 update - after 5-6 months.

Yes, they've done something (how impressive!) but they haven't fixed it. Pretty far from that. It still crashes from time to time, which is a huge issue.