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Ipad air low memory crash

I came to this forum to see if other ipad air owners are experiencing same problem with low memory crashing as I do but seems like I'm one of the few people have this. So far I have 10 low memory crash reports. I also have about 30 more crash reports but it's from various apps. I got my ipad air on the launch day, second in line, here in California. Maybe I just have a defective one, I don't know. If you have same issues, please reply so I can determine if I should return it or just live with it. Closing apps every day is a hassle. I wish Apple just put in extra gig of ram. Overall, I am extremely happy with my ipad. There are so many good this things to mention about this ipad but this is wrong thread to do that.

iOS 7.0.3

Posted on Nov 6, 2013 10:09 AM

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Dec 7, 2013 6:47 AM in response to PeterLW

I have a new iPad on it's way from China, due here Tuesday. I came across this thread and it

scared me a little. I was ready to cancel my order. I brought up Apple chat and the person from Apple, supposedly, had no idea what I was talking about. She kept saying, they had sold millions of the Air's and this is the first she heard of any problems. I gave her the link to this discussion, she claimed she couldn't open it. I suggested she check it out on her own, since it was on the iStore page. She did say I have until January 12th to return it. I will have a couple weeks to test it out to see if I have the problem many of you are reporting.

Dec 7, 2013 7:40 AM in response to sheddron

" I gave her the link to this discussion, she claimed she couldn't open it."


I take it she was trying to open it on an iPad Air?


I have to repeat yet again that this is not an iPad Air problem per se; it's an iOS 7 problem. I have had this Safari crashing issue on two other devices ever since updating them from iOS 6 to iOS 7. Yes, the problem persists on the iPad Air, which, unfortunately, can only be has with iOS 7. I'd love to be running iOS 6 on the iPad Air until Apple get iOS 7 sorted out; I bet it would rock. So I regard this as an iOS 7 software issue--even if more RAM could cure the problem, all that means is that Apple is foisting on us software that NONE of the hardware it sells can handle. What could go wrong?


If not for the constant Safari crashing, I'm sure I would absolutely love the iPad Air. Unlike some others have reported, the Safari issue is the only major one I have had with it. But I use my iPad heavily for online work and leisure so that's enough to have me DISGUSTED at this point, after struggling with this issue on all my iOS devices since September with no fix from Apple so far. Given that Safari in iOS 6 worked fine on less powerful iOS devices than the Air, I have to believe that this particular issue is fixable through a software update and that what has really happened here is Apple rolled out iOS 7 with this major bug in it.


All that being said, if a slowdown in iPad Air sales is what it takes to get Apple's attention and finally fix this issue, so be it. And if Apple does happen to issue a "refresh" of the Air with more RAM a few months after I paid almost $1,000 to snap this one up, well, I'm sure many of us will be beyond angry.

Dec 7, 2013 8:52 AM in response to Tulkinghorn

You know this is beginning to remind me of the iPad one on iOS 5.1.1. iPad 1 worked fine until iOS 5. But iOS 5 was too it for the available RAM and things started to crash. Now comes iOS 7. Same thing ... Maybe worse ... On ALL devices. Too big for the available RAM.


I still use iPad 1. It is usable, but it does crash often. I was hoping to upgrade to get more RAM. I am beginning to be convinced that 1gb is not enough for iOS 7. THBS I personally know folks on iOS 7 who report no problems. Upgraded my wife's iPad 3 to iOS 7.0.4 with no problems. But she does a fixed limited amount of things on it with limited web surfing. Have a friend with Retina Mini. He reports no problems, but we do see the occasional crash while playing head-to-head command and conquer red alert.


My iPhone 5s crashes occasionally but not enough to really concern me.


So ... I'm waiting to see some kind of a resolution or even acknowledgment of a problem before I jump in and buy a new iPad.

Dec 7, 2013 10:13 AM in response to apw2

Thank you for this info. I like to say this solved my question but low memory crash still exist so this helped me to decide to return my ipad air and ipad mini retina. Anandtech performed numerous tests and he knows what he is talking about. Apple should hire Anandtech and fire current engineers. If Steve Jobs was still around, he will not tolerate this and make whoever was responsible for this mess pay for it by firing them.

Ipad air low memory crash

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