Why is safari crashing after ios9 upgrade

iOS 9 Safari crashes when I use a text replacement in the URL field. As soon as it expands, Safari crashes. When I restart Safari, the tab is still there, awaiting a URL. Tried it 3 times and got consistent results.

Update: maybe it's not the text expansion that's crashing Safari. When the first letters I enter in an empty URL field are "sc " it crashes. I can expand "sc" after other letters are in the field.

I have the same issue... Mine crashes all the time since the update 2 days ago. It comes up for a few seconds and then closes instantly.

Frustrating!

WOw.. As soon as I read this thread, I retried it, and it works fine (without doing a darn thing!) Murphy's law... Good luck

Firefox & Chrome

I have not experienced this issue on both iPhone 4s and iPad 3, but others are obviously affected.

QUESTION: Is this a SAFARI issue? Does it also crash sites using Firefox or Chrome?

greg

I have tried this only with Safari. After upgrade to iOS 9.0.1, the problem is gone.

Can you explain more. I use iPad mini 2 and the problem of safari, chrome crashing and reloading is still frustrating me. i was hoping 9.0.1 would be the answer, but it wasn't.

I'm having the same problem with iPad 3, even after installing both updates. I can't really use it with Safari at all.

Just a quick remark. What helped for me after having had this issue for several weeks was to just close all the pages I had open in safari. After I did that I never had this problem again. So maybe it was like someone said further up a problem with some websites.

With ios9.0.1 on my iPad 2 I am also getting a variety of issues with Safari. It crashes often, on a wide range of websites, usually more complex ones with a lot of advertising, and sometimes hangs when I am inputting text on the keyboard - it will just pause, wait for maybe ten seconds, and then suddenly play back all my keystrokes and input the text as I typed it.

Aso when I try to use the search bar it can sometimes become unresponsive for ten to thirty seconds. This is not quite as bad as the crashing problem but still close to making the device unusual or for research on the internet which is my current need.

I have tried clearing all my web data several times. I have done a restart. I have changed various settings. None of it has helped so far.

Try turning 'OFF' the Background App Update feature, in Settings->General->Background App Refresh

In the end I have done a full restore to factory settings via iTunes, still using iOS 9.0.2 and without restoring to backup, which so far is giving good results, the device seems fast and responsive again. Setting up accounts and re installing apps is a minor hassle compared to having functional web browsing and keyboard again.

The problem in the past was intermittent and would vanish when I cleared the web history, only to return after a few days, so we will have to see if it stays like this, but it seems to have eliminated a lot of performance bottlenecks in browsing in several apps, switching between apps, and in the keyboard.

So it seems the problem returns even after a full restore to factory settings. After about 20 hours of browsing on various websites I had my first crash on Cnet.com, and have had several since, although they are not as frequent as before (when they used to happen every ten minutes). A lot of the performance gains from the restore have stayed intact.

This is with safari as the only active app on my iPad 2.

I corrected my same problem by turn off the Preload Top Hit. Goto Settings-> Safari -> Preload Top Hit.

I had a similar problem, that involved Safari crashing (in i OS 9.0.2) on my iPhone 5S, and i located to problem to be a "system/springboard" error, and after a reboot, and a complete delete of history and cookies, i seem to have my Safari app running normal again / Peter