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Apps on iPhone 5s Reportedly Crashing Twice as Often as on iPhone 5c and iPhone 5

My dad has a 4S and I have a 5 and we keep having issues on iOS 7 with trying to wake our phones back up and they are unresponsive—just a black screen. Rebooting fixes the issue for a few days and then it will do it again. I think it's been happening more often with my dad, and he also has an issue where his phone will randomly reboot or respring (can't tell by his description). Apparently he was in the gas station and went back to his car and his iPhone was in the middle of rebooting with the Apple logo. It's pretty weird because he wasn't even using it before. He wanted me to ask on my "Apple Forums" if anyone else has had this problem?
 
macduke said:
My dad has a 4S and I have a 5 and we keep having issues on iOS 7 with trying to wake our phones back up and they are unresponsive—just a black screen. Rebooting fixes the issue for a few days and then it will do it again. I think it's been happening more often with my dad, and he also has an issue where his phone will randomly reboot or respring (can't tell by his description). Apparently he was in the gas station and went back to his car and his iPhone was in the middle of rebooting with the Apple logo. It's pretty weird because he wasn't even using it before. He wanted me to ask on my "Apple Forums" if anyone else has had this problem?
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Yep. Different people on different devices. Looks like it could be iOS 7 related.
 
iTunes was crashing on me over and over again. Reboot didn't fix anything. I had to go into the music app and then click on the store link from within that app for it to work again. :mad:
 
Cyloncat said:
Yeah, 64 bit some developers, all right.

I could go off on a rant about Objective-C and iOS memory management practices in apps and libraries, but the basic problem is that it allows programmers access to pointers and, if you work with C structures, even allows you to allocate based on size. These are the things that kill apps in transition from one memory model to another. Modern languages like C# and Java isolate the programmer from these things, and you can develop code that runs equally well on any architecture, with the libraries and runtime handling any interaction with non-managed components.

Programs should never make any assumptions about the size of addresses, values, structures, or objects.
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Good stuff, this should be upvoted to the #1 spot. :cool:

If you do start a rant, allow me to participate (funny enough, I'm in XCode right now [Grrr!], and in a VM using VS'10/C# [Weee!] ... I think I've got some Rails and Python open somewhere too :D )
 
eiuro said:
I've had 1 app crash out of the 75 on my iPhone 5s and that was iTunes store. Other than that its been nearly flawless! So i'm sure this is only effecting less than 1% of the 5s users or there would've been a big stink about it. But hey anything to report on apple gets people's attention.. Think i'm going to start a blog titled.. Why My iPhone 5s is the best phone on the market and yours is crap!
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what about your other equipment? I have apps crashing on me frequently since updating to IOS7.
 
paul55br said:
App developers need to man up and fix this one.
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I've had my 5S for 4 days now. The only app that is crashing for me is Safari, so Apple need to man up and fix this. I'll be reading on Safari and the screen will just fall asleep, as if I hadn't touched the screen for a while. And it's nit iOS 7 because my updated 5 never did this.
 
iWork crashed on the 5S rather often and in a predictable manner. It's testament to how much strain iOS 7 development put on Apple's limited resources. It must have been insane.
 
3bs said:
Yeah I would have done that except it always crashed in the most inconvenient times so I didn't think to make note of them. I'll do that if my replacement starts randomly rebooting too. If not everyone is suffering from this and both 5S models I've used are then it must be me (or the apps I'm using).

A previous poster said his 4 replacements all had random reboots so I'm kinda worried.
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I've had a few, but not very often. Also, pay attention to how long you have the same app open if you can. I noticed this with apps that are open for a really long time with no change. Then, when I try and access one, or open a new app, boom!

I wouldn't worry, we all seem to be having to some degree. I did have one app that would lock up my phone until they updated it. Bugshot screen shot app. That one was easy to figure out lol.
 
I haven't had any crashes on my 5s yet - but I've only had it for 2 days. I did have some crashes on my 5c though.
 
cmichaelb said:
I've had a few, but not very often. Also, pay attention to how long you have the same app open if you can. I noticed this with apps that are open for a really long time with no change. Then, when I try and access one, or open a new app, boom!

I wouldn't worry, we all seem to be having to some degree. I did have one app that would lock up my phone until they updated it. Bugshot screen shot app. That one was easy to figure out lol.
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I got a lot of reboots with WhatsApp and I never close that app.
 
all apps crash constantly, battery life is awfully ridiculous, I keep losing signal, google chrome will load websites halfway and crash, I kinda want to go back to ios6
 
don't know about the iPhone 5S - but so far I'm happy with iOS7: it put my iPad 4 on par with my iPhone 3GS under iOS6 in terms of speed...

not joking: iOS 7 is slow as hell. Animations are slow, four finger pinch to home is choppy as can be, email and Safari are slow to load, the swipe up gesture to search is laggy, the notification center is laggy...
It's just incredible how fast my flatmate's iPad 2 with iOS 5.0 feels fast and responsive when compared to my iPad 4 (yes I did a clean restore, etc, 5GB free...).
 
I'm sure it will get fixed, but it has been frustrating. Lots of apps crashing, OS reboots on me somewhat regularly if you try to do too much at once. Several people have complained to me about having difficulty getting the phone to swipe and answer a call when it has been locked (I had the issue as well on my i5, but haven't had it happen since I got my 5S).

I get that software has bugs and things like this are going to happen, but it doesn't make it any less frustrating when it pops up. Hopefully 7.0.3 can knock out a lot of these problems.
 
whooleytoo said:
This is a strange thread to pick to take a potshot at Android.
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Preemptive strike, perhaps, since stability problems and display bugs are something Android is supposedly worse about than iOS ;). The random crashes, occasional reboots, and jittery display (both on my iPad2 and my iP5s -- swipe up or down and as it coasts to a stop it frequently stutters back and forth) are the kind of thing we like to say Apple doesn't have a problem with. Because polish, etc.

iOS7 is not going to be remembered as one of Apple's shining moments. Should have called it iOS ME :D
 
3bs said:
How often does it happen? Mine happened 5-10 times a day so I'm getting it replaced. Are you on 7.0.3? I feel like it only started happening when I updated.

Edit: I meant 7.0.2
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i couldn't tell you when it started as I instantly updated to 7.0.2 the day I got it, then to .03 restarts about 3 times a day, especially worst when I try and go in the photo album or take a picture!

I think I'll just call apple and get them to do that, the guys fobbed me off in the store, claiming it was my fault he said to me 'Oh you're using apple apps (yes the built in ones) and they're crashing so its causing your battery to suck' well that was useful, I was very angry!
 
So itunes, safari, iwork, chrome, and whatsapp are all crashing? How is no one on here particularly angry about this?
 
I have not noticed a difference in the amount of crashes on my 5s. I've had it 2 weeks today.

Another forum I post on has been complaining about it. I've seen people talking about sprinboard crashes, which I've never seen on any iOS device I've owned.
 
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