Safari no longer works after iOS 8.2 update.

I don't know if this relates to your specific problem, but some on here may find it useful. My daughter's iPad Air has restrictions enabled, and Safari content is set to "Limit Adult Content." I was experiencing the same problem. Disabling Restrictions solved the problem. after enabling restrictions again, everything worked fine!

I'll try anything once -- no luck though. Thanks anyway.

AmishCake was right: since this is not a widespread issue there is no guarantee of a timely fix. I got sick of waiting and attempted a downgrade to 8.1.3 on the iPad without restoration from backup, which is much faster but by no means bug-free. Lo and behold Safari works again. Some apps have to be reinstalled, though YMMV.

PS Worked on iPhone as well. Reset phone beforehand and it kept all the apps. Keeps tempting me to "upgrade" to 8.2. HA! 😠

Settings > Safari > Advanced

Turn JavaScript from ON to OFF.

This is the problem that has been causing the lock-up.

Once you've turned JavaScript OFF, make sure you close Safari, then you can turn JavaScript back ON and reopen Safari.

My GUESS, is there's a bad piece of code floating around in ADs or something and it's locking up JavaScript. Turning JavaScript OFF, resets it. Just a guess on my part, but this seems to fix the problem.

Seems to do the trick. Thanks!

Many thanks! Though mixed outcomes for myself. On iPad this worked, but only after the DNS trick AND network settings reset.

Alas this did not work for iPhone, after numerous resets...😕

NB The DNS trick works only on wi-fi of course. Now iPhone works! ✅

PS last update: Safari would work fail again whenever I try to restore backup of messages. On the iPad though am choosing Safari over message archive (less important). Exhausted from endless repeats so now done with this issue until there is a better fix.

Over and out.

https://twitter.com/JohnGreenaway/status/575389917842440192

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Same problem here: Safari completely non-functional on my iPhone 6 after updating to iOS 8.2, refusing to load any web-pages. Instead, it appears get stuck while trying to load web-pages, and sometimes the app seems to crash after a period of nothing happening. Very occasionally (maybe one attempt in fifty, or one attempt in a hundred) it will load a single web-page successfully before immediately returning to the usual behaviour of not any loading pages.

I think I've tried all the suggested methods to fix the problem e.g.

• Turning JavaScript off and on;
• Turning off iCloud Keychain, turning off iCloud Safari sync and deleting web history
• Resetting network settings
• Erasing the phone and restoring from iCloud backup
• Erasing the phone, reinstalling firmware from iTunes and restoring from iTunes backup.

Nothing resolves it - Safari always remains broken on the iPhone. I don't see any such issue on my iPad, where Safari works fine after the upgrade to iOS 8.2

For information, during this process of trying to get Safari working, it's noticeable that trying to turn off iCloud Keychain doesn't always work - that is, it automatically re-enables itself the moment the switch is toggled to off.

Google Chrome works fine, which means there is at least some kind of workaround possible. However, It's a shame that Apple's QA process didn't identify this problem before iOS 8.2 was released - not being able to use Safari is a pretty serious issue. Still, they're only human, and anyone can screw up - what counts now is the speed with which they're able to resolve the problem.

Have you reported it to Apple or called Support on this? Because it's not a wide-ranging issue. There may not be a "fix" in the works.

What makes you think it's not a wide-ranging issue - I see plenty of people on Twitter saying that Safari is completely broken for them in iOS 8.2, including some fairly high-profile people. I haven't reported it to Apple yet - I will file a bug report when I get some time.

In the meantime, I hope and expect that some enthusiastic members of the iOS Safari team are taking some time to browse these discussion forums and social media to see how their work is doing in the outside world, and so are aware of the problem.

For information, with this problem of Safari not loading pages, I've found that iti will load pages from Favorites (or links from other apps) in Private Mode. However, even in Private Mode, it still won't load pages when URLs or search terms are typed directly in the search/address text field.

Same problem. I have turned off all other apps - no luck. Rebooted the iPad - no luck. Turned off Javascript - no luck. Checked and downloaded all updates - no luck. Cleared cache - no luck. Other suggestions?