Thanks for sharing. I'll give it a try. Most of my crashes stopped when I cleared Safari history several times a day. Never used the history anyway. Apple will sort this out soon.
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Safari constantly crashing since update to iOS 5
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Thanks for sharing. I'll give it a try. Most of my crashes stopped when I cleared Safari history several times a day. Never used the history anyway. Apple will sort this out soon.
Safari crashing with iOS5
Have been experiencing similar issues and appears to be getting worse. Visited the Apple Genius bar and was advised that I should try a DFU Restore...haven't tried it yet...anyone else been recommended this and if so did it improve things? Thanks.
Have been experiencing similar issues and appears to be getting worse. Visited the Apple Genius bar and was advised that I should try a DFU Restore...haven't tried it yet...anyone else been recommended this and if so did it improve things? Thanks.
Crashing for me as well, even crashed while I was writing this reply. Has this been reported on the apple website?
I did this at the Genius bar and it didn't work, they replaced the iPad (it crashed whilst the Genius was using it) and that hasn't helped, I believe it is obviously because I upgraded to iOS5 as soon as I got it.... I'm hoping it will be sorted soon, although I know I'll be getting an iPad 3 when it comes out.
Disabling Spotlight Search works ... So far...
The setting on iPad 1 is Settings>General>Spotlight Search
The setting on iPad 1 is Settings>General>Spotlight Search
iTunes store crashes too
Can anybody comment on iTunes also crashing, I noticed it does (all the time) when I search for something, enfuriating as it is very hard to find anything without search. Spotlight is off.
Can anybody comment on iTunes also crashing, I noticed it does (all the time) when I search for something, enfuriating as it is very hard to find anything without search. Spotlight is off.
Happening to my iPad 1 but not on wife's iPad 2. I rolled back the iPad 1 to 4.3 just to make it usable again.
Tons of low memory errors in the diagnostic logs.
And I'm not doing anything heavy duty-reading CNN or even Macrumors will crash safari, particularly if I open a text box to type something. The typing lags behind, and I know a crash is imminent.
Very very poor job of quality control by Apple on iOS 5. Let's hope 5.1 fixes these issues.
Tons of low memory errors in the diagnostic logs.
And I'm not doing anything heavy duty-reading CNN or even Macrumors will crash safari, particularly if I open a text box to type something. The typing lags behind, and I know a crash is imminent.
Very very poor job of quality control by Apple on iOS 5. Let's hope 5.1 fixes these issues.
It keeps crashing for me too (on an iPad 2), I've tried clearing cookies, history, resetting settings, everything else suggested too, nothing helps. I never have apps running in the background, and the crashing happens no matter how many tabs I have open. Argh.
For me the crashing mostly seems to affect anything with web-browser functionality, including Safari, iCab Mobile, Facebook, Pulse News Reader... videos crash constantly, but sometimes just loading a page does it. Reloading the same page or video is often successful.
It's only since updating my iPad 1 3G 32GB to iOS 5.0.1 (from 4.3.3).
Disabling Spotlight seemed to help a little bit, but hard to tell.
It's only since updating my iPad 1 3G 32GB to iOS 5.0.1 (from 4.3.3).
Disabling Spotlight seemed to help a little bit, but hard to tell.
I have posted on this topic previously. I have been consumed with the iPad3 release which now seems won't be until March. I am partly anxious to have the 3 because since the release of IOS 5 my iPad1 is constantly crashing. The biggest offenders are, in order, Safari, iTunes and, IMDB (app). I have tried all the anecdotal remedies. I have called Apple. I have done a clean install. I would go back to an earlier IOS, but, not really a practical solution with iCloud, Match, etc... I am nearly certain this is a memory issue. I hope everyone who has this issue contacts Apple. After this long I fear Apple is either unable or unwilling to solve this. My theory would hold up if it was only happening to 1st generation iPads. Is the Apple solution the latest and greatest, iPad3?.
It's Safari.
I installed Atomic Web Browser and haven't had a crash since ..... so far.
Its unacceptable to me that Apple has not addressed this issue. I've read they had been deleting threads pertaining to Safari crashes w/iOS5 on Apple forums -- not sure if true b/c I don't go there.
I installed Atomic Web Browser and haven't had a crash since ..... so far.
Its unacceptable to me that Apple has not addressed this issue. I've read they had been deleting threads pertaining to Safari crashes w/iOS5 on Apple forums -- not sure if true b/c I don't go there.
I've subscribed to a couple of threads over there on this topic and while they haven't deleted the threads they have been deleting some of the posts. A couple of guys have said they have been contacted by Apple (after emailing Tim Cook) and that supposedly Apple is working on it. Of course, we will never really know. But one post did say that the engineer he was talking to did say that we should be sure to update any new OS version, implying that a fix would be there.
Who knows. All I know is that my iPad 2 crashes a lot and I'm pretty tired of it. I won't be buying another Apple product if it's not fixed in the next software update.
This is a very serious issue, if you dig deep you will find many discussions. We are not alone. Is Apple listening? Lots of us are experiencing iPad apps crashing very often, especially Safari web browser... Let's hope that the next iOS update will help.
This is currently a major issue on the apple discussion boards…
It doesn't seem iOS 5.1 has fixed it either. Surprising this hasn't been reported by any blogs anywhere considering the number of people it seems to be affecting (over half a million views on the Apple discussion forums).
It doesn't seem iOS 5.1 has fixed it either. Surprising this hasn't been reported by any blogs anywhere considering the number of people it seems to be affecting (over half a million views on the Apple discussion forums).
Possible Fix for Crashes
Enable "Debug Console" (Settings - Safari - Advanced - Debug Console).
This will place a console pane at the top of every page, but it's not too obtrusive. This also appears to fix the "Back" caching issue and the responsiveness issues as well.
YMMV, but this seems to work for me. Good luck.
Enable "Debug Console" (Settings - Safari - Advanced - Debug Console).
This will place a console pane at the top of every page, but it's not too obtrusive. This also appears to fix the "Back" caching issue and the responsiveness issues as well.
YMMV, but this seems to work for me. Good luck.
Atomic Browser, tried it, no joy, crashes persist.
Debug console, no joy, crashes persist.
There is something far more basic going on.
Most often, when the browser crash occurs, the app: "App Store" or "mail" has just begun running, they come in like a bull in a china shop and disturb memory.
If I could turn off the App Store from running automatically every half-hour or so, more than half of the crashes would go away. I would rather check for updated Apps once a day, not several times per hour, please!
Seems a little bit better since 5.1 upgrade, instead of crashing twice an hour, crashes are now only five or six per day, but app crashes persist at an UNACCEPTABLE LEVEL.
Debug console, no joy, crashes persist.
There is something far more basic going on.
Most often, when the browser crash occurs, the app: "App Store" or "mail" has just begun running, they come in like a bull in a china shop and disturb memory.
If I could turn off the App Store from running automatically every half-hour or so, more than half of the crashes would go away. I would rather check for updated Apps once a day, not several times per hour, please!
Seems a little bit better since 5.1 upgrade, instead of crashing twice an hour, crashes are now only five or six per day, but app crashes persist at an UNACCEPTABLE LEVEL.
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