Why are most Google apps crashing on my iPhone 13 Pro with iOS 18.1.1?

I think I found fix (thanks to this post).

I went to Gmail app:

1. sandwich menu on top left
2. go to bottom "settings"
3. go "Inbox" section then "inbox personalization"
4. click on "categories"
5. untick all sections (notifications, social, etc) and click OK (you have to be fast because app will crash)
6. wait few minutes
7. go back to Gmail setting and re-tick all sections
8. and voilà! All Google apps working as before.

Prior this, I also tried to:

• do a force reboot (volume up, then volum down then long press on power button) --> did not work
• remove VPN (even if not used) --> did not work
• reset network settings --> did not work

Hope it's going to work for you guys!

PS: I'm not sure about english names in Gmail app as mine is set to French.

SOLUTION: I HAD SAME PROBLEM ON IPHONE 16 PRO MAX WHEN I UPGRADED TO 18.3.1. This reditt post fixed the crashing on all google apps. I had the same 2gb Google LLC file that probably caused the issue:

"Here is what the problem was and how I fixed this. I knew something was staying behind that was constantly tripping things up on these google related apps on iOS. I eventually asked ChatGPT to help me troubleshoot it, and it did mention something about clearing out data from the google app in the iPhone Storage screen. I thought not a bad idea.

I find in there this app called "Google LLC", and that it's tied to 14 different apps on my phone and that it's almost 2gb in size. BINGO. This is where whatever old data is tripping things up lives, but i can't just delete "Google LLC". I have to manually uninstall every Google related app there is on my phone (14 of them). After that i rebooted for good measure, installed Google Search (which reliably crashed for me) aaaand... no crashing, solid. I install all my other apps, I setup my personal gmail account and my work google account, still solid, I open all the other apps that were breaking, totally cool now.

I hope this helps someone who runs into this, I use Google products alot for work, and it not working on my nice iPhone 14 really was irritating and interrupted my daily workflow. Enjoy!

FYI this is not my phone screenshot, but something i googled and copied, remember my version was 1.9GB and shared to 14 apps. Probably too big and prone to failure."

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I found the way to fix it. Which is deleting every google apps on your iphone and redownloading them again.

My equipment: iphone 16 pro on ios 18.3.1

Things I have tried that doesn’t work out:

•Reboot my phone

•turn off “Learning from this app” AI function

•redownloading a single google app

•Logging out google account on the apps

Hope this would help.

Possible fix to this issue, as was experiencing same crashes with any google app, running on iOS 18.3.1 and with all apps being updated. I happened to uninstall Google Home, as this app was not being used and not setup, and all other apps seem to be working well now. The only google apps I have installed which were effected are Gmail, Google Maps, Google, and Chrome.

This worked perfectly for me. Uninstalled all the google apps listed. I have a strange feeling Google Chrome was probably the main culprit so if someone elses wants to just uninstall chrome and reset and re-install to see if that works that would be good research. If all else fails just do the above method and remove every google app on the phone.

Thanks so much for this info. Deleting all my Google apps, restarting iPhone, reinstalling Google apps, worked for me very helpful 😀😘

This fixed my problem:

Reinstall Google (search) app.

I had uninstalled it when the issue started.

I installed it again to checkout some other new feature, and that also fixed my other Google apps!

You have to delete every Google app.. You can't miss any... Delete then restart phone go back to app store and download one by one.. Do NOT use the bulk one that downloads them all at once.. also all Google apps just go through every app I had a sneaky Google app that was there it was app that actually I'm not sure what it did but I keep deleting and redownload but it continued to shut down so I took my time and found every single app and it was one that I never saw before deleted it and redownload and everything is working once again

Delete the Google apps and download from Apple App Store again.

I updated to iOS 18.3, still same issue.

I've tried to uninstall one of Google apps (Youtube), reboot phone, reinstall YT, and still crashing...

However, if Gmail is used "in-app" (for example, I scanned a document and shared it via Gmail), Gmail inside scanning app did not crash.

What is solution? One week I cannot open Google apps...

I just did an update today. 18.3. Let’s hope this is gonna work. It’s nice to see that. A lot of people are having the same issues I am.

I updated all google apps to the latest version yesterday and everything seems fine. Everything seems normal. The important thing is I am still on 18.2.2. This means that the problem is probably due to some google apps not working properly.

my problem start from yesterday, not a single google app is usable after 15-20s afterward phone become laggy. I did many steps along with update to 18.3 noting was solved. Meanwhile my ipad still running lower version of ios all working just fine there. By going through the comments it appears no solutions for this issue till now.

Hello, updating to iOS 18.3 solved this issue? Thanks

The only Google app that I use on my devices is Gmail. I have an iPhone 16 Pro Max and an iPad Pro. Both have iOS 18.2 on them and I'm not having any issues with Gmail on either device. I would contact Google support for help with their apps.