This is why jail breaking is dead to me. The entire benefit of having a apple device is having the latest software once released. When you have to dodge the important updates what's the point? My wife has this issue and it's a pain.
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Apple Planning Fix for iOS 7 Home Screen Crashes
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This is why jail breaking is dead to me. The entire benefit of having a apple device is having the latest software once released. When you have to dodge the important updates what's the point? My wife has this issue and it's a pain.
I love Apple products but I have never experienced so many soft reboots on any device. Ever. It's appalling to say the least.
I agree 100%. The crashing doesn't happen constantly like the page reloading does. You should be able to have more than 1 or 2 tabs open without reloading. I just hope it isn't due to lack of RAM.
I have had some of these random crashes, but the other day my iPad Air crashed and then restarted, crashed again and then restarted, for about six times. The only action that would stop this incessant restarting was to plug it into the MacBook Pro. The message given was that this device needed to be restored. This worked, and after 5 hours of loading everything was fine. It hasn't crashed since.
Even if it is related to ram, software optimization will probably help a lot. I think.
I hope.
Software optimizations will definitely help, but there's only so much those can do. RAM limits will be RAM limits
I am still on skeuomorphic iOS 6. When 7 gets past the .4 bug stage I will consider it, but the word on the street with the kids is no. Only the drones are upgrading. 
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This is fixed for the most part in iOS 7.1 beta 4 as is many of the app crashes and resprings (white screen with apple logo).
iOS 7.1 beta 4 on iPad 2 and newer is fantastic and is what it should have been from the beginning - you will see considerable performance increases when you load 7.1 final when compared to 7.0.4.
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Where it's zooming in on a picture, so you lose the edges? They can't even get that right in Mavericks. The Photo Wall screen saver cuts off the outer edge of the pictures when it draws the picture frames around them! If it were real, wooden frames I could understand it, but this is SOFTWARE that's doing it. Things don't just work anymore, they're just goofy.
...Just noticed, it's not happening in the little thumbnail preview that runs in the Desktop & Screen Saver preference pane, but only when it is really saving the screen.
I hope so too. I've read all kinds of theories on it and I have no idea what is true. Some say 64 bit Safari isn't refined, some say 1GB of RAM isn't enough, especially with a 64 bit processor. It really is disappointing to have this issue on a new device. I think that Apple should have just used 2GB of RAM to begin with. By the time iOS 8 rolls around, 1GB isn't going to cut it. It really doesn't cut it today. Apple is really taking the el cheapo route by doing this, IMO.
They've considerably tuned memory compression in iOS 7.1 beta 4 (it's new to iOS 7 and Mavericks) and it's made a big difference especially on older devices such as the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S (I no longer have an iPhone 4 to test with so I can't vouch for performance on that device) where memory is constrained as well as have tuned Safari such that it uses less memory when rendering pages which means one can load more pages/tabs than previously possible and not have Safari crash or the pages constantly reload.
iOSBry
They are. I heard they just going to remove all icons and put super thin text in each ones place. Like Clock, Photos, Maps etc really thin and pink (I believe it was)
Actually, in iOS 7.1 beta 3, three of the super lime green icons were all made darker and they toned down the in call progress banner which appears at the top of your iPhone during a call and you switch away from the dialer as well as a few of the other banners.
iOSBry
Are the going to fix the ugly?
Yea by bumping up the ugliness.
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Please do us all a favor and fix all the crashes while you're at it.Thanks