Safari problem on ipad

first78

Don't know what's happening with my iPad but this morning I opened safari and as soon as i tried to type something into the address bar the page just closed. Anyone able to tell me how to fix this please?

grumbler

Can you not simply delete the app and reinstall it?

first78

How do I do that please?

ukcarper

This is happing to lots of people this morning me included, go to settings, Safari and switch off spotlight suggestions that worked for me.

Anne_Marie_2

Possibly caused by the new update? Notice that I have an update 9.2.1 waiting to be installed. Will leave it for the moment.

TadleyBaggie

It's an issue on the Apple Server side, nothing to do with IOS updates.

Anne_Marie_2

Thanks for that, will go ahead with the update then. At the moment, mine is working fine.....that will be the kiss of death then.

Roland_Sausage

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/01/27/safari-crashing-how-to-fix/

agrinnall

It's on the BBC so it must be true (although it's unusual for them to offer any criticism of Apple)...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35420573

bjbyorkshire

I thought it was just my ipad that had thrown a wobbly. I logged on to this site to ask for help and saw the thread saying it was an Apple update issue. I did what was suggested and yay.... It's working. Once Apple have looked into and sorted out the issue from their end will I have to go into settings and toggle suggestions on again? How will I know when to do that if so?

Thanks for your help on this brilliant forum.

Roland_Sausage

bjbyorkshire wrote: »

Once Apple have looked into and sorted out the issue from their end will I have to go into settings and toggle suggestions on again? How will I know when to do that if so?

Yes you will if you want the safari suggestions feature to work. Keep an eye on the tech/Apple news sites as they will no doubt report when it is fixed.