iPhone Safari Crashes: Does It Happen to You?

Yes, my iPhone’s Safari browser crashes a couple times a week and goes straight back to the home screen. It doesn’t seem to happen for any particular reason. I will pay more attention to it now. I think it happens when I have 4 or more tabs open, but not always.

I get the occasional Safari crash, but more often (more than once a week), I get a complete iPhone freeze-up. I haven’t figured out exactly what is going on, but it happens most often at work, which makes me think it may have something to do with the wireless.

Doug, that’s interesting that it happens most often at your workplace. I wonder if the wireless network could have anything to do with it. Come to think of it, I haven’t bothered to notice whether I’ve been on WiFi or EDGE when Safari crashes.

i havent had any of these problems with my phone. i musta god lucky and got the only one that works. i actually use my phone so much and the internet. it has tto kover my life, im more connected with the people around me.

I had the same problem, but I called Apple and they said all I needed to do was turn my iPhone off every once and a while. The problem stopped immediately .

I have had this problem with my phone as well. Whether on edge or wifi network it still crashes. I have had it crash while having only 1 page open while the ipod was running and it crashes. So multiple pages crashes it as well. I have actually had it crash on my just while loading a webpage as well. Now I don’t really care too much for the crashes because now I have another issue with my phone. It has to do with the silencing switch. I turn it to silent but the phone shows up on screen that it went silent then comes back to sound enabled and keeps doing it for about 5 times by itself. sometimes I switch the sound on but it goes into silent mode. Has anyone experienced this? sorry to Chris for bringing up another question in your topic.

My safari crashes all the time. If its anything more than a news site, and oftentimes when entering text. Most of the time when entering text. The rate seems to have increased since the new patch came out. (the one released within the same time as the air) anyone else?

I think there’s only so much this little device can handle. Which is a little dissappointing considering the commercials are all about multitasking.

My iPhone crashes while I’m listening to music, on it’s own.
Then, listening to music and browsing Safari, crash.
Listening to music and typing SMS messages, crash.
It’s not all the time, but the majority.

Tom, that’s a serious problem if it crashes the majority of times. Have you tried restoring your iPhone through iTunes? If you have and that doesn’t solve the problem, why not take it into the Apple Store? I’d assume the warranty would cover that, especially if it crashes more times than it doesn’t.

3day old iPhone, it crashes a few times a day. One tab, no music and only on wifi. I hope it gets fixed, as I love this little phone. ( last phone was an xda )

I am seeing the same issue it happens on edge when there is more then 2 windows open and seems to happen more frequently on wifi wPA encrypted not sure if the encryption matters. The safari crash I see does not require any other apps running however I do have 10 IMAP email accounts that check for email every 15 minutes in the background that may also have something to do with it. I just power cycled my device hopefully that helps I will make sure I do it once a day like the apple customer cafe advised one of the previous posters. I’ll keep this updated if I keep seeing it.

That’s highly disappointing, but not surprising.

Every Mac I’ve ever used crashed, and I’ve never bought into that hype.

For the record, my WM6 smartphone never crashes. WM5 did sometimes, but never WM6.

How ironic that it’s more stable than the iPhone!

Glad I read this before I actually bought an iPhone.

Ive had my iPhone since the start of December, and experience crashes on a fairly regular basis.

Majority of times it crashes on more data heavy pages; lots of graphics, long forum posts, that sort of thing. Other times it just crashes for no perceivable reason whatsoever.

It has the occassional tendency to load pages and fail to activate hyperlinking too, which is annoying.

I get a full iPhone freeze once every two weeks or so too, and on about ten occassions had the touch system either slow almost to a halt, or freeze entirely.

Annoying.

mine crashes as well. i havent used the ipod feature yet. i will be just surfing the web and it crashes.

since I power cycled my device and updated to 1.4. My browser no longer crashes and my phone has been very stable. I would recommend a power cycle if u see the problem frequently that seemed to fix my problem even before the 1.4 update. I have the 16g model with quite a bit of music and video I also browse on it very often on both wifi and edge

yes just ryte now in about 4 minutes it crashed 3 tymes .
And it seems lik wen it listening 2 the iPod it crashes more same with more tabs and
SMS . Mine crashes A LOT witch is really irratating

I am a new Iphone user, I bought mine last march and it seems that safari is the only thing thats annoys me. It keeps on going back to the home page of the website I am browsing. I tried copying the settings of my Ipod touch which really works fine with safari but still I get this problem. Any suggestion aside from rebooting

I am also a new iphone user. I bought it last thursday (5/22/08). And I am also experiencing the crashes on the safari browser. I only have that open no email no music just the one page and it crashes on me often. Also it has crashed on my while watching movies. I wonder if it is an error in the conversion I did from the dvds to mp4? But on the browser I do feel it happens more on content rich pages. I am on wifi at home and at work its the edge and same thing. One page is what it takes for me… should I exchange it?

I am the proud owner of the iphone (16g) and I’m also experiencing safari crashes. Im only using wifi and the problem occurs mostly on data intensive webpages, but sometimes also on smaller pages.. First i thougt unlocking and jailbreaking the device with ziphone could have something to do with it but after seeing so many experiencing the problem i doubt that now - my guess is that the defect is caused by a memory leak..

My Safari crashes all the time, but only when i am on myspace! I dont know why!

Hi,
I have had iPhone since March 2008.
But recently the Safari started crashing.
Yesterday it crashed 4 times during my usage for 30 min.It costs losts of data as when it comes alive again its fresh with memory.So all the information that you were visiting or say writing vanishes.

Just to throw my experience in here:

I noticed earlier today that when my iPhone 3G was switching between Edge and 3G, safari would reliably crash.

Perhaps you folks on wifi are having a similar issue, just with it for some reason switching between wifi and OTA.

My phone has actually been consistently crashing for about 3 months now, i’ve learned to live with it and hope that Apple will come out with some type of fix for this…basically I post alot on a sports message board and every time i get on the site and begin posting it would freeze up and go back to the home screen. Now it used to just do this when i would attempt to type on the website, but recently it has been doing it when i simply just want to view sites. I performed a restore on it last month but it doesnt seem to help, this is extremely dissapointing as this is probably the best phone on the markert right now and no one is even close to challenging it.

Here’s to Apple finding a solution to this headache….

Yes it does happen. The iPhone 3G is my first Apple product. I’ve always used PCs and WM. I love the design and overall functionality of the iPhone, but I’m really dissapointed about its stability. I went through three updates already and the applications continue crashing. Safari is not the exception. Sometimes it crashes at random, sometimes you can repro the crash by going to the same site. Regarding complete freeze, I’ve got just one since I got the phone three weeks ago.
I would have expected more stability considering the lack of features in the individual applications.

Yes safari crashes almost everytime i use it. Only tried it with wifi so far. Tried the hard reset and tried the iTunes restore. Still the same. Any solutions?

I recently upgraded the firmware and the regularity of safari crashes is not very comforting. I can see this crash when I have three tabs open, browsing on wifi, and the site in question: apple.com apps page.

it’s the java most likely. Java is very intense on system resources so dirty java code would over load the mini browser. I find I crash went I enter a java heavy site driven by a database if they could just alocate more systememory to it when needed like OSX does then I don’t think it would crash with heavy or frequent use