Q: Ipad air low memory crash

I don't use dynamic wallpaper, so I don't think that is it. When I got my new iPad 4 a couple days ago, instead of doing a restore from icloud or iTunes, I set it up as a new iPad, then hard wire from iTunes/PC installed most of my apps one by one. Some one described this as a temporary fix for the Air's problem. I have had a couple crashes to desktop, including the magic Mac page. I don't ever remember my other iPad 4 crashing, even when I had 25 tabs open. It would just do the page reload thing that the Air does (when it doesn't crash).

So I think by a fluke I may have gotten a buggy new iPad 4.

I know that flaky memory can cause any computer to crash. So right now the power users of the iPad Air and those with flaky memory are feeling it first.

I had the iPad Air from day one. It crashed with each version of IOS7. So I am highly skeptical that another update will completely fix it. It may not crash with a new update, but there will be some kind of a performance issue, because 1 GB RAM in 2014 just ain't gonna cut it, especially with a 64 bit CPU.

My iPad 4 loaded that magic map page without crashing as well, until I scrolled down. I agree David, I can expect to have some light issues with this iPad, being a power user, because I firmly believe 1 GB RAM is insufficient. I can tolerate the light problems with iPad 4 IOS6 until a new more powerful (and hopefully larger screen) iPad comes out. I am not switching to Android or Windows Surface Or Kindle just yet.

I was prepared to go with the Playbook with BB10 because the QNX kernel is designed better (highly efficient with resources) than most OS's out there, but Blackberry's CEO, genius that he is, reneged on his promise to port BB10 to the Playbook. He even went so far as to state he doesn't believe the tablet market has a future. Anyone with that perspective should not be CEO of a corporation that competes with Apple, Android and Microsoft.

Apple has/had a reasonably efficient OS up until IOS7. Regardless of that- I don't care how efficient your OS is, RAM is the bottleneck; it is so cheap now that it shouldn't be an issue, but it is. Apple needs to get on the ball, and soon, or I am jumping ship. I was amazed they didn't included the fingerprint gizmo on the Air, but not surprised at all now that I see they skimped hard on the memory. I also think it is long past time to start the entry level devices at 32 GB or higher. Crap, I can buy a 16 GB USB stick for less than $10....what the ****.

Can someone explain, in layman's terms, how the iPad Air can run things like Infinity Blade III and Real Racing 3 just fine, but runs out of memory loading a Twitter web page?

That's exactly what some people here need to understand...

It's a memory leak, affecting only some apps, Safari in particular.

Memory is allocated and never reallocated elsewhere, causing IOS 7 to shutdown the affected process.

Webpages with a lot of contents are to avoid in this case.

If 1 gig was not enough for the ipad air, a lot of crashs would occur in other apps,

in high def games particulary since these kinds of game need a lot of memory...

My new ipad Air had an iTunes app crashing problem. Diagnostics in Settings showed low memory errors with the crash.  I returned it for a replacement iPad air yet the same problem exists. iTunes app crashes when I try to preview movies while holding the iPad in landscape (horizontal) position. Low memory errors related to the crashes with iTunes show in Diagnostics in Settings.  But if I close the iTunes app and hold the iPad in the portrait (vertical) position and tap iTunes, then I can preview movies in iTunes without any low memory crashes.  I reported this to a senior advisor at Apple on Friday Nov 29th. They have assigned a senior engineer to investigate it. They said to wait 3 business days.

I encourage everyone to call Apple and report this problem. That's the only way Apple can fix it.

The iPad Air has a quad core GPU with 64 bit memory interface, so it can render the games much faster than the prior generation. This also means that the device, due to its faster graphic rendering ability, needs less RAM to cache the data in. Kind of like using a smaller funnel with a larger hole- the fluid doesn't back up because it flows faster with less restriction(32 bit memory width being more restrictive than 64 bit memory width).

To complete the answer, the web page isn't rendered and discarded like the graphics in a video game. The video game is constantly morphing, the old frames and data are immediately dumped from memory. A large web page with embedded graphics, video, text and more must all be stored in RAM until you close the page. This is why the Air is reloading tabs(when it doesn't crash) because it simply doesn't have enough RAM to hold all the data.

New ipad mini w/retina. Reporting in: apps crash too much in iOS 7! Safari keeps exploding off the screen. Will return this device if not fixed by Christmas!

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For Apps that are not part of iOS 7 (Safari, etc.), try contacting the app developer.

In a moment of high irony, Safari on my iPad Air just crashed three times in a row while trying to load this page: http://9to5mac.com/2013/11/08/a-week-with-the-ipad-air-in-three-words-believe-th e-hype/

This was also very shortly after a reset.

For over two years now I was looking forward to the device we now know as the iPad Air.  But the buggy iOS 7 has turned my excitement into frustration, disappointment, and--considering I gave Apple a thousand hard-earned bucks for the device--anger.

APPLE, PLEASE FIX THIS NOW!

I have a free app called MemoryInfo. It shows the amount of free available RAM when it first opens, and then frees up more. I have often seen my free RAM as low as 20mb after a "stall" or "crash". Within seconds it shows as much as 580mb free, and I can run whatever had just crashed. This indicates to me (fingers crossed) that our problem can be fixed with a software update. IOS is not properly releasing memory from previously run apps. Try it, you'll see.

I am really annoyed at this old problem for Apple...

I have a new IPad Air and it behaves like old IPad did.

The problem is simple: 1 GB of RAM is not enough !!!

The OS and apps requests for memory are not satisfied by 1 GB...

I want my money back.

Amen

Re:

In a moment of high irony, Safari on my iPad Air just crashed three times in a row while trying to load this page: http://9to5mac.com/2013/11/08/a-week-with-the-ipad-air-in-three-words-believe-th e-hype/

Extremely high irony

"Ask Doctor Apple"

Dr., my iPad Air crashes when I do this.

Don't do that.

Very funny...