Slideshow Crashes Photos in iOS 8 on iPad

Same problem on 8.1. The problem occurs in slideshows with more than 300 pix. I have several smaller slideshows and all run continuously.

My iPad2 works great now after IOS 8.1 Update

NO problem with Slide Show

This might be a reason why so many iPads won't Update right.

While the iOS 8.1 just consumes around 90MB of space, you need at least 5GB of free space to initiate the download."

Go to Settings, General, Storage, Manage Storage and you will see how much space each App uses.

I did my iPad2 16GB update thru iTunes on my iMac with 8GB of memory and it was sucking the iMacs memory very low during the update. Safari froze before loading the first web page and I did a hard boot and went fishing as I saw where it was going to take a long time to recover. When I tried again it wasn't quite right and then did one more hard boot and then did a Reset by going to General-Reset-"Reset all Settings" and it works real well now without loosing any data and in-home wi-fi clocks at 17Mbps download. I backup my iPad on my computer. Probably like most of you I’m sticking with OSX 10.9.5 Mavericks as it gets the job done very nicely and don’t need all that extra fancy stuff that probably will slow things down.

...sadly, not the issue for me. I have over 80 gigs available on my iPad Air 2 and still get slideshow crashes

with over 300 pix.

I have the same problem after installing IOS8 on my 3rd generation iPad, was told in the Apple Store that I did not have enough RAM, (3rd generation only had 256 MB) So I bought the iPaid Air 2, which supposedly has 2G RAM, but the same applies. After about 50 photos it crashes back to an empty screen.

Before IOS8 and all the updates I did not have this problem, Photos Slideshow worked just fine then even with my limited RAM. btw I had 800 pics in one album and not a problem.

I have the same problem with both iPad and iPad mini after installing 8.1. Any fix other than keeping it less than 300 photos per folder, yet to try.

Crashes even though there are less than 300 photos in the folder!

Just did an 80 pic show to fit one song and it crashes at about 2 minutes! This happened with io7 and 8. I thought 8 was suppose to fix the bugs.

Got the same problem (ipad 3, ios 8.1.1). If Apple does not solve this issue with the forthcoming update, I will go back to android. Since ios 7/8 there are several bugs, which occur on all ios devices. So, it is not true, what Apple told their customers (Memory leak problem). I think, they want to sell more new devices by telling wrong facts.

And this is a standard feature!!!! Every mac/pc since the middle of the 1990s was able to play a photoshow without crashing. Like almost every Tablet pc on the market, also the older devices...

Same problem here. The crashes uccurs around approx 100 pics depending on the size (resolutions). My iPad is version2 running 8.1.1. I also have an iPad1 running 5.1.1 and here the slideshows run perfectly, even with 400+ pictures. I pretty much agree with your comments, Johnny. Photos in 8.1.1 has become more or less useless. I sync my Events vis iTunes and the Events used to show up on my iPad in Alphabetic order (still does on 5.1.1). But on my iPad2 with 8.1.1 they show up in random order. And if you have some 300+ Events it's very cumbersome to search through all to find the right one to show off.

Updated to 8.1.1 and still the slideshow crashes after 60 photos. Set at 2 seconds, crashed after 2 minutes. Set at 10 seconds, crashed after 10 minutes.

Found out it doesn't crash when I set it to Origami but everything else won't work after 60 slides! I hate Origami with all the cropping.

I couldn't agree more. Origami is not very useful, but it works:-) Just tried it with a slideshow of 1200+ pictures on an iPad2.

I have tried this approach, and it works for me as well. The slideshow crashes on all the other settings, but if you set the Transitions option to Oragami, it will work.

It's not a perfect solution, and it is certainly far from what a company with Apple's capabilities and standards should be offering, but at least it's an option.

Me, too, I hate origami! I've cropped every one of my 1,500+ family photos tightly and to the same aspect ratio for a smooth slideshow. Origami makes a mess of them, cropping off big chunks of pictures that I don't want cropped any further.

I filed a bug report with Apple about the slideshow problem a couple of weeks ago. I've also been in touch with AppleCare. The advisor who's handling my case is trying to be helpful, but this is a software problem, not something she can fix. She sent a problem report to engineering on November 20. As of today she has not received a response. I'm very disappointed with Apple right now. The slideshow ran my 1,500+ photos flawlessly for hours with iOS 7. Then Apple broke it, and now even Apple's own reps can't find out if Apple intends to fix the problem they created.