8.4.1 issues

I am running iOS 8.4.1 on my iPad 4 and am experiencing a couple of issues. One, iMessage will not load. I get a blank screen and nothing more. Tried killing the program. tried a hard reset. tried resetting network settings. To no avail. See picture of what it looks like. Oh, and when I try and log into messages under the settings menu, I cannot. I tap messages and the settings app crashes. The other issue is I got an alert the new issue of Mac Life was here, but it won't show up to download. I haven't really dug into that. it's more of a minor inconvenience. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

Mac Life issue resolved. Deleted and reinstalled the app (I told you I hadn't done anything about it yet)

 

Messages started working again. Perhaps Mac Life is the key to everything. I'll keep you posted.