Safari doesn't work after iOS 8.3 update

I Have he same issue on iPad Air 2 and iPhone 5. I tried many of the suggestions here but nothing worked. Finally I found a solution. I installed Chrome. Unfortunately is not possible to remove completely Safari.

Why is it taking this long for Apple to recognize this as an issue, let alone fix it? I have the same issue, and the same solution: install Chrome. The fact that we are forced to use Google apps should have Apple running for the solution. Oh well, hope the next update includes a fix.

Have you let Apple know? Just posting it on this forum is not letting them know; it's only users here, not Apple itself. It doesn't appear to be a widespread issue. You'll need to provide feedback directly to Apple at this link: http://www.apple.com/feedback or contact Apple Support.

I went to my local Apple store to see if their display phones were running the 8.3 update and if Safari was working. It was. I talked with several of the floor people, the genius people were occupied. No one had heard of this issue. This suggested to me that this is a software conflict issue. I decided to restore my iPhone to its original condition and not restore from a backup. After the restore and with nothing but the default software installed on my iPhone 6, Safari worked! yaaaaa!

I then started restoring software incrementally, and testing Safari after each software install. First was gmail accounts. Then one-by-one, my music files and about 20 more apps. Safari continued working after each app install. Finally after installing the 24 Hour Fitness app "My 24" - BINGO!!!!!!. SAFARI QUIT WORKING!!!!! I tried deleting the My 24 app but nothing. Safari still did not work.

Finally I did another reset (my 4th) and installed all of my apps EXCEPT "MY 24". Guess what? Safari now works!!!!!

To me, there are a couple issues here. There is a software conflict issue that needs to be fixed by both Apple and 24 Hour Fitness. When you delete an app, apparently you do not delete all of the files associated with that app. It seems as if you only delete the icon and the files remain so they can continue to cause problems. This issue has probably taken about 10 hours of my time or more to resolve. I think I will take it up with my local 24 Hour club. I know they won't do anything but at least I can waste some of their time like they did mine.

Lets face it, there is no solution until Apple will fix there broken Safari!

Thank you for this suggestion. I changed my default search engine from Google to Duck Duck Go, and that solved the problem :-)

I have this same issue. It fixed itself today... so I am sharing this to see if this fix works for others.

1. I tried wipe & restore from iTunes (still broken)
2. I then tried a wipe and NEW PHONE to verify it wasn't some weird device issue, and confirmed that Safari worked fine.
3. Then I wiped & restored from iCloud backup.
4. After restore, Safari was broken again. So, seems like either restore method will restore the corrupted data that crashes Safari.
5. Apple said the only recourse for me was to wipe & NEW the phone and lose all kinds of data, so no way am I doing that.
6. I was planning to reproduce the error and file a bug on RADAR (Apple's bug reporting utility). So I opened up the "iPhone Configuration Utility" and clicked on my phone in the DEVICES section and clicked on "Console" tab.
7. I then wen to repro the bug, and amazingly Safari WORKED! I've played around w/Safari for another 15 minutes and it's still fine, even after disconnecting the config utility. So my ridiculous theory is that maybe using this utility allowed Safari to fix itself...

It was easy enough to try that it's certainly worth doing for anyone having this problem. The app is in /Applications/Utilities so I don't think it's part of my XCode install.

Please try it out and LMK if it works/doesn't work for you.

Alan

Hi Alan,

I've been having this issue and Apple exchanged my iPhone - safari worked for 2 days and failed. Here is a work around: Open Safari - select the new page button and select "Private". This will open a workable page. My guess there is a bug in safari and it might have something to do with cookies. I might try turning off cookies which I think is what Private does as well.

Joe

SealTeam,

My work around for the same annoying problem is to: Select New Page icon located in the lower right corner - Select "Private" browsing and you should have a working "Private" Safari.

I haven't tried it just yet, but I am going to turn off cookies for regular browsing.

Good luck.

I found a permanent workaround. I upgraded to an Android phone. iOS 8 has left a severely bad taste in my mouth. All the various issues that affected "some" people and generated many-page threads on the Apple discussion board all hit my iPad Mini Retina and my iPhone 5s. So now that I came eligible for early upgrade, I got a Droid Turbo. Heck with it, I'll try my hand with Android.

Yeah... Same here.

But guess what... On private navigation it works.

Safari on both my iPad and iPhone have suddenly stopped working. Try and load a page and it freezes. Have tried everything suggested in this thread. Only private browsing works, but the only fro links or bookmarks - searching and entering urls doesn't work as nothing happens when tapping go!

Same here on iPhone 5s. Tried everything in this thread (including restore, etc) with no effect. Safari is unusable, and I've had to switch to chrome.

This problem only started in the last 2 weeks, whereas I upgraded to 8.3 a long time ago.

Vince did you try my advice from "May 26, 2015 4:25 PM " ? I cannot figure out how to get a link directly to my post. But I was a sufferer of this problem for 4+ weeks including after multiple restores from backup. The trick I used seems to have worked -- my Safari is still trouble free 2 weeks later! Would love to know specifically if my trick works for anyone else.

Alan

Hi Vince:

See Yazoo's post from May 12, 2015 11:30 AM . I unlinked Safari from iCloud and haven't had a problem since. Even Chrome is more stable now.

David