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Web pages crash all the time in Safari on iPhone

This page encountered a problem. Or a problem repeatedly occurred. All. The. Time. Zooming makes it worse/happen faster. Other times, just going to sites triggers this. it has been happening for years and it has become maddening. This kind of a bug is honestly just inexcusable at this point and and anyone working on Safari should be ashamed to have their name associated with the product it works like a third world space exploration program.


I have the latest iOS 16.4.1. I always update and install the latest versions. I’ve cleared history and cache and everything else I can think of. Ot happens on different iPhones that are also different models. This one is a 13 Pro. The only “pro” in Safari is how profoundly often pages won’t render. Other browsers don’t have these problems. Only Safari, you know, the browser that comes with the phone and is developed by Apple who also developed said phone it should run well on.


And while I’m at it, scrolling sites with ads often causes text to not display at all after a certain point. it really makes my day when I scroll past an ad on a page and then can scroll infinitely more while only seeing a blank page background until I reload the page and lose my place (no, it doesn’t).


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iPhone 13 Pro

Posted on May 5, 2023 7:19 PM

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Posted on Feb 11, 2024 11:00 PM

The only app I experience issues with is Safari - and it's almost every webpage I use now. I've done all the steps, but they don't work. I can see I’m clearly not the only person having this issue.

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Jul 8, 2024 1:54 PM in response to Discussioner0

This is the issue I've been having exactly since updating to Sonoma 14.5 (MacOS). Pretty-much any site that has Javascript crashes. Turning off JS "fixes" but then the sites don't work.


I tried clearing caches, all web data, history, etc. No joy. Tried reinstalling MacOS. No fix.


Oddly, I created a new user (me-2) and things work over there. But that's sort of a stupid hack!


I'm hoping to figure out what I need to delete on main user ("me") to get that working again.


NOTE: main-user crashes on Apple sites. Pretty-much any JS site. I don't think the issue is the site(s).

Aug 24, 2024 6:24 PM in response to luanne183

I have been struggling with this problem for YEARS on so many of the sites I visit regularly (ESPECIALLY pcgamer, tomshardware, and ign - yes I’m a bit of a geek).


After trying every troubleshooting suggestion I could find on the issue I’d accepted I would just have to live with this pain for life.. But after hitting it like 10 times today I thought I’d try again to find a resolution. AND HERE IT IS! FINALLY! Disabling “privacy preserving ad measurement” seems to have solved the problem.


Thank you!

Nov 24, 2024 6:14 PM in response to Guest82

Don’t listen to puppybull-toot. The issue has been persistent for years now, and Apple can’t figure it out. If it’s a website bug as she/he indicated, then cnn, ESPN, my bank and about 73% of the websites I visit all have the same “bug.” If that were true, i believe it would actually be critical for Apple to address the issue within safari rather than expect such a large % of websites visited by Apple users attempt to remedy the issue on their end. That expectation would be akin to the proposal of “solving mental health” to reduce mass shootings as opposed to limiting access to firearms… well… it may be time for us all to bail on apple phones.

Web pages crash all the time in Safari on iPhone

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