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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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rayloricred183

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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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TheLittles

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May 5, 2023 9:41 PM in response to sypoltsystems

sypoltsystems Said:

"Web pages crash *all the tine* in Safari"

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If an App with Not Respond on an iPhone:

Close All Apps:

An app may not be responding, particularly Safari.. So, close all apps. Hold you finger down as you swipe up. Then, close all of these open apps, by sweeping up quickly for all apps.

Jun 17, 2024 2:14 PM in response to sypoltsystems

A couple of debugging steps:

* It seems Javascript related. Turning off Javascript allows me access to the page(s), they just don't work (because they need Javascript).

* I created a New User on my computer -- NOT an admin -- and I can browse to at least some of the pages as "them" (even if I login to the page as "me"), but still crashes on my main/admin account.

* The pages that crash (one example: after login -- but there are dozens, this is NOT a wave apps problem!), they crash Safari, Chrome, Firefox and DuckDuckGo browsers.

...So maybe the bug is in WebKit?

I don't know enough to offer a strong opinion about where the problem is, I'm just reporting my experience.

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Jun 24, 2024 1:16 PM in response to sypoltsystems

In my case, re: my crashes on iPhone browser (both Safari and Chrome), (and yes, it still happens), it may have something to do that I cannot update to IOS 17, because my phone is no longer supported. I’m on IPhone 8.

I just saw I can update to a new IOS 16, maybe that will help.

It is definitely not on every page, only those with lots of ads going on, pages that are heavy to process, and are messy. It’s a little better with Chrome.

Need to figure out getting a new phone, I guess.

Dogcow-Moof

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Jul 8, 2024 1:42 PM in response to lavacaballero

It's impossible to say what the issue is, most likely that your game does not conform with one or more modern web standards.

You may wish to create an account at Apple's Developer site and ask there:

Apple Developer

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).

apb86

Level 1

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Aug 4, 2024 5:37 AM in response to luanne183

I made the change you suggested. Sadly, it didn’t help me at all. Certain websites are worse than others (Facebook for example isn’t awful), but websites that have links to multiple articles and such? Forget it. Crashes happen within minutes if not seconds. It’s horrendous.

Kobeight

Level 1

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Sep 17, 2024 4:05 PM in response to sypoltsystems

Mine too. Used to be slow loading specifically yahoo webpage. Then when trying to go to discussions, it will always kick me out and go back to the parent article and I’d have to go back to discussions. Now I’ve been getting an error page, so I decided to remove it and use chrome browser.

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aadyn272

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Nov 25, 2024 12:07 PM in response to sypoltsystems

But the thing is, it’s the only one that can ACTALLY zoom under 100%, (chrome zooms only text, and fillberdabber you if you think I’m gonna start using bing.) (I’m on a phone and I don’t want stuff clumped together all the time)