safari iOS 8.1 freeze and slow

I switched to Chrome from Safari and while it's generally better, there still seem to be some pretty big issues. I'd second the idea that some of the problems are Javascript-related. This does seem to be the cause of large variability in page load times. Chrome also seems to crash every half an hour or so.

I'm wondering if other issues are related to the multi-touch screen as I seem to experience hang-ups or crashes if I accidentally brush a finger on an inactive part of the web browser display - possibly these mis-touches were handled OK before but it just seems to get confused now and hang up.

It seems to be a general problem with WebKit, not just Safari. It is affecting all browsers I have tried on iOS 8.x.

Problem for me with Safari started with 8.01 upgrade and has persisted through 8.1 upgrade ie freezes Google search results often meaning numerous refresh attempts. I abandoned Safari for Atomic web browser but miss Safari's functionality. Apple!!!! :-(

Got an iPad air and the battery was very poor. Took it to Apple and was given some poppycock about me having too many Push emails in it. Went back, removed all apps, emails and got it back to its original state. Charged it fully, put it in aeroplane mode and took screen shots every 12 hours to show how quick it discharged and went back to Apple. They finally agreed to replace the iPad air. So the new iPad air has a longer lasting battery. Upgraded to iOS 8.1 (12B410) and then today find that the screen is not sensitive anymore. The pages freeze. The keyboard freezes. I cannot scroll down. The work around seems to be to press the power button off and on and then the screen becomes more responsive. I suspect it may be the iOS after reading this forum. Do you think it could be the screen of this iPad itself?

HI syntheticzero,

I think you're onto something.

Take a look at this - http://9to5mac.com/2014/06/03/ios-8-webkit-changes-finally-allow-all-apps-to-hav e-the-same-performance-as-safari/

Now how difficult can it be for Apple to fix this?

BTW Apple don't read any of this so best to email them directly.

I know the following is somewhat off topic, but this thread is getting a lot of attention and a separate post got no replies.

In iOS 7 I could type a shortcut into a field on a web form in Safari and then replace the shortcut with the desired text by using the < or > buttons above the keyboard to move to a different field. With iOS 8.1, use of the < or > buttons does not accomplish the desired result. Restarting or resetting the iPad has no effect. OTOH, the ∧ and ∨ buttons in Chrome work as expected.

Has anyone else encountered this problem in Safari?

I have the same problem with an iPad Air running iOS 8.1. I have to wait for 20 seconds for a search link to become responsive.

The answer?

Use Chrome as your browser.

I cannot use any of my KB shortcuts as it freezes my iPad Air.

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BTW, what's all this about 'Auto-saved versions..' above? I'm simply clicking the Reply icon as usual, to reply in this case to Dhobbins, and I get this:

If I select one of those and click Recover, I see a copy of replies I've made to other posts. Why? And is this a newly introduced 'feature'?

Terry, UK

I am experiencing the same problems as well as half the screen disappearing in Safari for few seconds...None of these problem existed until the upgrade to the infamous IOS 8's. I was hoping that the 8.1 would help but no........have not upgraded my wife's I-pad, hers works great...

Sadly the update broke my Ipad 2 as well. My husband and I have identical Ipads, only we did not update his. It's quite easy to compare the differences when I run into a glitch to verify it is exclusive to the updated Ipad. I am past frustrated and just resigned to the fact that Christmas will bring a new non-Apple tablet.

On the Ipad, pictures continue to load slowly if at all, videos freeze up, I constantly get the message that pages need to be reloaded due to error, and links don't work correctly on emails. In addition, one of the truly frustrating things is if I need to enter a username and password or fill out information on any site, the keyboard pops up as I begin to type and covers most of the page, making it impossible to see what I need to fill out. There is no way to minimize the keyboard down and hitting enter, return, etc. does nothing. It just hovers over the page and I have to abandon the process and go to another tablet/computer to complete whatever task I was trying to accomplish. The other day trying to log into Verzizon again I got the keyboard block, so I went to hubby's Ipad and compared the visual on the log-in process, and on his when you go to type the page "compresses" (for lack of a better way to describe it) and you can see the username box, the password box, and the enter buttton above the keyboard.

On mine, the keyboard just covers the page and I get stuck. Other than splitting the keyboard and trying to move the page around behind the keyboard until I can reach the appropriate boxes, I can't seem to fix this problem.

Other problems are every time I miss a regular phonecall on my Iphone, it shows up as a missed Facetime call over on the ipad and it won't let me clear it off. The calls are not facetime calls and are on my phone, yet the red number tally on the Ipad facetime just keeps increasing and it won't let me clear it. Also my Overdrive library app is now super slow, and half the time when I open any app it like Kindle, etc. it shuts down immediately the first time. Usually it takes two attempts.

I did installs all updates for apps, etc, and have the latest IOS 8.1

Breaks my heart that my Ipad is fast becoming useless.

Followup: as I was typing the previous message I published it prematurely and had to try and edit it. the keyboard thing happened and wouldn't let me minimize it down, in frustation I hit the keyboard icon rapidly like 5 times and the screen blinked and then hung up for a second, then the keyboard finally minimized down like normal. So it seems like that helped, not sure if it will work every time it freezes up but at least this time that seemed to unstick it!

Apple chief Tim Cook: 'I'm proud to be gay'

That's nice for him - Now, if only he could take some pride in making sure iOS 8.x works!

I turned off Safari backup in iClous and Safari is running a bit faster. Let's see how it goes..

Absolutely. Good on Mr CEO for announcing his sexual orientation. Good for him. Unfortunately, I..DO..NOT..CARE!

Rather than flaffing about his sexual orientation, the dill might want to focus on the titanic cl*sterF*#k that is ios 8....all versions.

I won't reiterate all the problems on my iPad2 since ios8 torpedoed it, as they've all been mentioned by others on this post already. noremacniai made a very good point.

This is a company whose very marketing mantra is, "It just works". ............Really?!......That ain't happening.

So would "just working" be an endless litany of jump around, stand on your head, reset-reboot-rehash-repeat-reload, backup-reload, twist-and-shout hey-diddle-diddle, labyrinthine bul*sh*t? For example, if the idea is to wipe your device and reload from a backup (which doesn't work by the way), why doesn't the software update just take a little while longer and do that automatically during the update?! Hello!? My grandma supposed to be an Apple technician now and fix this herself? Or "corrupted apps" is it now? Yes, someone else's fault...has to be. Could one create something to check apps for stuffing up performance? Hey, now there's an idea! But, I suspect Apple are too busy announcing their CEOs sexual preference to be distracted by their own ios eh?

Apple has nice (and costly) hardware. But they've always, always, neglected their operating systems to focus on pushing the newest, costly, hardware gadget out the door. Often making those who just bought the latest iGadget's recent purchase redundant (thanks). But their software and OS are their Achilles heels, but they're too blinded by their success pushing new gadgets to see that. And it ain't like there aren't other players in the market now itching (and able) to shoot Achilles down.

And the Quality Assurance failure here on not one, but MULTIPLE ios8 updates is stunningly idiotic.

And last but not least, the most illustrative part of this whole tragi-comedic CrApple bungle is that the worst app offender....wait for it.....is their OWN....Safari! The one you can't get rid of.

iPad Air wifi and cellular first generation... excellent under ios7.x, amazed at how I lived without one for so long. Under ios8, just want to smash the piece of **** over my knee. Back on topic to the original poster, yes, exactly the same observations with Safari and freezing search results/stops responding. Now typing this via Chrome which is much more responsive that said Safari in ios 8.1. IPad overall horrendously slow however.