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iOS 9.3.5 safari crashes

Since upgrading to iOS 9.3.5, safari tends to crash often. Is this a bug? Is there a fix for it?

iPad 2, iOS 9.2.1, (Or whatever is the latest update)

Posted on Sep 22, 2016 10:29 PM

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Jun 25, 2017 2:57 PM in response to JamesHartline

JamesHartline wrote:


I have had endless, constant crashes, freezes and slow responses to websites opening in Safari ever since I upgraded to IOS 9.3.5 on my ipad 2. Even prior to that, as well as in the 9.3.5, my photos are constantly re-uploading my entire photos in the ipad photo app. Even though I haven't put a new photo on my ipad in the last few days, it still says it is uploading 1 photo. This has also caused my twitter app to constantly crash or freeze or be delayed for days everytime I try to tweet anything with photos in it from my ipad photos. I was almost going to purchase a new ipad mini 2 last week because of a good deal a certain vendor was offering, but all the constant disruptions that the IOS causes in delaying projects I'm working on and the constant freezing in apps I use to work on projects with each new upgrade, I am on the verge of going with Microsoft Surface.

Forget the 1st gen iPad Air and 2nd gen iPad Mini 2 which are 4 years old now.

The new 2017, iPad 5 is the newest and most hardware up to date, of the "plain Jane' standard iPad at the lowest pricing Apple has ever offrered for new iPads.

Also, you CAN find price deals on the iPad Mini 4 which is only over two years old and has almost all of the features of iOS 10.

My local Best Buy electronics has the 128 GBs iPad Mini 4 for $289.00.

Check Apple's Refurbished store for iPad deals.

Inventory changes daily, so check this area often.


https://www.apple.com/shop/browse/home/specialdeals/ipad

Good Luck to You!

Jun 25, 2017 4:17 PM in response to Raptor4069

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Good Luck!

Jun 25, 2017 3:04 PM in response to Raptor4069

Your iPad is having other issues.

Maybe you should try a backup of your iPad to the latest iTunes on a computer and do a complete erase and reset of your iPad to see if this clears things up!

If that doesn't work or help, bring in your iPad to your "local" Apple Store or authorised Apple reseller for diagnosis and possible fixes for your iPad error logs.

Complaining here gets you no real answers


Good Luck to You!

Oct 18, 2016 7:07 AM in response to Bobby Collins

Apple has never really been clear or specific about the whole apps running in the background in the iOS App Switcher, and how performance is impacted by having too many apps being left active in the background in the iOS App Switcher, but my six years of extensively using iPads, it's best to keep the amount of apps in the App Switcher, especially more memory and resource hungry apps, to maybe less than 10 and, somewhat ideally, keep to 6-7 apps or less running in the App Switcher.

You maybe able to leave 10 or a few more apps than this running in the background if you go into the Settings app and turn off Background App Refresh, so whatever apps are still running in the iOS App Switcher won't continually update in the background.


You have plenty of free data storage space available.


The iPad 2 only has 512 MBs of RAM, so this limits how many active web tabs you can have open in Safari during a web/Internet browsing seesion.

I use a large iPad Pro, plus I still own and use an iPad 2 and I have found with Safari and my other third party web browser that the most active tabs you can leave running while surfing the web is no more than 3-4 tabs.

Any more active website tabs open than 3-4 and Safari will tend to crash.


With your iPad having only 512 MBs of RAM, this is another BIG reason to keep apps, running in the background in the iOS AppSwitcher, to a minimum all the time.


Plus, take a look at and perform all of my tips, in the link below to help improve your iPad 2 performance.


Slow iPad 2 on iOS 9


Good Luck!

Oct 18, 2016 7:14 AM in response to MichelPM

SO, from what I'm seeing here, no one else is having this crashing problem since 9.3.5 came out? OK. I have switched (today) to Firefox for iOS to see if it performs better - more reliably - than Safari in this version.


THank you for the answer. I do regularly check to keep background apps down - usually only 2 - 3. Checking out your tips link next...

Nov 26, 2016 10:00 AM in response to Bobby Collins

I have had endless, constant crashes, freezes and slow responses to websites opening in Safari ever since I upgraded to IOS 9.3.5 on my ipad 2. Even prior to that, as well as in the 9.3.5, my photos are constantly re-uploading my entire photos in the ipad photo app. Even though I haven't put a new photo on my ipad in the last few days, it still says it is uploading 1 photo. This has also caused my twitter app to constantly crash or freeze or be delayed for days everytime I try to tweet anything with photos in it from my ipad photos. I was almost going to purchase a new ipad mini 2 last week because of a good deal a certain vendor was offering, but all the constant disruptions that the IOS causes in delaying projects I'm working on and the constant freezing in apps I use to work on projects with each new upgrade, I am on the verge of going with Microsoft Surface.

iOS 9.3.5 safari crashes

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