My iPad Air hasn't crashed at all, and I've had zero problems with Safari even with 5 tabs open. Don't listen to the ones who go on and on about the 1GB of RAM and blame everything on it. They are bent on trashing Apple over it whenever they can and refuse to accept that many of us are having no problems at all. Have you tried using another browser to see if the crashing is limited to Safari or not? If you haven't updated to 7.1 you need to. It fixes some bugs within Safari.
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iPad mini Safari on iPad Mini retina crashing. 3rd iPad!
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My iPad Air hasn't crashed at all, and I've had zero problems with Safari even with 5 tabs open. Don't listen to the ones who go on and on about the 1GB of RAM and blame everything on it. They are bent on trashing Apple over it whenever they can and refuse to accept that many of us are having no problems at all. Have you tried using another browser to see if the crashing is limited to Safari or not? If you haven't updated to 7.1 you need to. It fixes some bugs within Safari.
All 3 minis have had 7.1 and now this one has had latest update from a couple of days ago.
Tries using chrome but can't stand to use it.
Safari STILL crashing on me very regular. Going to have to accept I'm stuck with this bad device until the next gen comes out
There are lots of other browsers out there. Opera, Firefox, Mercury, Photon, etc. Try them out and see if the problem still exists.
iPad retina 3rd gen - iOS 7.1.1 Pangu JB for me.
I also have this problem. Even something simple like browsing reddit or being on here WILL cause it to overheat. I've had it force-reboot by itself while on nook, reading. I've also had to home-power reboot it a few times after going to 7.1.1.
I also have this problem. Even something simple like browsing reddit or being on here WILL cause it to overheat. I've had it force-reboot by itself while on nook, reading. I've also had to home-power reboot it a few times after going to 7.1.1.
its random. i could be viewing this thread and it will randomly die. just quits safari back to home screen.
i can have safari open and not even scrolling up and down just reading and it will just go off randomly!?
its really annoying! even more annoying is apples lame excuse. ITS A LIMITATION OF THE DEVICE! apparently running safari/web browsing is a limitation of the device
I've had 2
I bought my first RMini 5 minutes into launch. I used it till January when I slipped on ice. I live in Houston Texas and have never see snow let alone ice lol, bur anyway I shattered the screen and got an AppleCare replacement.
Neither of those RMini's have ever crashed with the exception of this site, and that is because it is so massive:
http://www.drudgereport.com/
But even the Drudge report has only crashed me a couple of times. It usually just hangs up.
I'm surprised you are having so much trouble. Maybe it has something to do with your providers connection. Sorry for your troubles.
I bought my first RMini 5 minutes into launch. I used it till January when I slipped on ice. I live in Houston Texas and have never see snow let alone ice lol, bur anyway I shattered the screen and got an AppleCare replacement.
Neither of those RMini's have ever crashed with the exception of this site, and that is because it is so massive:
http://www.drudgereport.com/
But even the Drudge report has only crashed me a couple of times. It usually just hangs up.
I'm surprised you are having so much trouble. Maybe it has something to do with your providers connection. Sorry for your troubles.
But, how could this be? It's the RAM.... Right? Oh wait. Maybe it's not the RAM and it's actually Safari. Darn it, that's gonna mess up the "RAM activists" message now. Please don't tell anyone about this.
Update on this issue.
I am now on ios8 beta 3. Instead of crashing back to home screen, I now get page reloads and the "page encountered an error" or some similar message at the top of the screen, and it seems to be happening a lot more often.
It seems apple are now blaming the websites for the problem?
I am now on ios8 beta 3. Instead of crashing back to home screen, I now get page reloads and the "page encountered an error" or some similar message at the top of the screen, and it seems to be happening a lot more often.
It seems apple are now blaming the websites for the problem?
But, how could this be? It's the RAM.... Right? Oh wait. Maybe it's not the RAM and it's actually Safari. Darn it, that's gonna mess up the "RAM activists" message now. Please don't tell anyone about this.
The Ram activist? That's totally hilariously
I wouldn't have ever imaged that there would be any push back for additional ram. Seriously, testing other browsers wouldn't verify anything because they don't use Nitro. Third party web browsers on IOS are basically nothing more than reskinned Safari minus Nitro. This changes in IOS 8 but since it's beta software you can't really determine anything just yet. http://9to5mac.com/2014/06/03/ios-8...-apps-to-have-the-same-performance-as-safari/
There will be glitches? If you don't know that, why are you using beta software anyway?
Besides the crashing happens even on ios7 so we can only hope for fixes in ios8.
Macrumours
Macrumours forum
BBC news
Imgur
Ebay
Hotukdeals
Cex.io
Blockchain.info
YouTube
They are just the most common sites I have noticed it on. And no I don't want to use the apps that are available, except the YouTube app.
It can happen on any site at any time.
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Exactly. So this glitch is nothing new to me, I'm not complaining about the beta being buggy. It's actually sort of better as it now just reloads the page and gives me an error message, instead of crashing back to homescreen
Which are basically a reskinned version of Safari with inferior performance since they can't access Nitro java script engine. So they have most of the same issues and reduced performance.
Try
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That's all I said. Finished.
If it doesn't work, throw the iPad away. Sell it. Get a galaxy Tab s.
One of the reasons that there are apps for websites on the ipad is that they improve the user experience by minimising crashes caused by memory intensive websites. Mobile versions or otherwise. There are apps available for the websites above that will avoid your problem. If you don't want to use the apps then I guess you have an unfixable problem.
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