iPhone 6, 6s+ entire phone crashing & restarting when using web views

[mkaen]

There have been many posts about Safari freezing or Safari crashing on 9.3, but I haven't been able to find other threads where peoples' entire phone is crashing and restarting like this. Any thoughts?

Specifically, while in a web view (whether in Safari itself, or inside of another app), the phone suddenly crashes, displays the Apple logo, and restarts. It has even happened while in iCloud Shared Photos.

 

[Salvor Hardin]

What log type is this crash generating?

 

[mkaen]

What log type is this crash generating?

It appears to be generating panic-[date].ips and/or ResetCounter-[date].ips logs.

 

[Salvor Hardin]

It appears to be generating panic-[date].ips and/or ResetCounter-[date].ips logs.

Are you using a Pac file in your Wi-Fi settings to block ads? I was getting kernel panic crashes from 9.3 and it turned out to be because of that.

 

[mkaen]

Are you using a Pac file in your Wi-Fi settings to block ads? I was getting kernel panic crashes from 9.3 and it turned out to be because of that.

Oh wow, yes, I am. Were you able to modify the PAC for a fix, or had to disable it completely? It would be nice to identify what exactly in the PAC is causing the crashes.

 

[Salvor Hardin]

Oh wow, yes, I am. Were you able to modify the PAC for a fix, or had to disable it completely? It would be nice to identify what exactly in the PAC is causing the crashes.

I just disabled it so I'm not exactly sure what's causing it, nice to have content blockers to block ads but of course that only works in safari. The one I was using is called "1337 ADBL0cK3R of DOOM" which gets posted on here a lot.
Edit: here's the link to it http://shion.ca/ios/adblockpub.js

 

[mkaen]

I just disabled it so I'm not exactly sure what's causing it, nice to have content blockers to block ads but of course that only works in safari. The one I was using is called "1337 ADBL0cK3R of DOOM" which gets posted on here a lot.

Yeah, I'm using a customized version of a different pac file, as described here. I think it must be a Safari bug that'll hopefully be fixed along with the other JS issues. I turned on sending of diagnostic data so they'll maybe take note of the kernel panics.

 

[silvetti]

It's related to this - iOS 9.3: links in safari not clickable anymore
https://forums.macrumors.com/index....inks-in-safari-not-clickable-anymore.1962471/

 

[C DM]

It's related to this - iOS 9.3: links in safari not clickable anymore
https://forums.macrumors.com/index.php?threads/iOS-9.3:-links-in-safari-not-clickable-anymore.1962471/

Seems potentially somewhat different given that the whole phone crashes as the OP mentioned.

 

[silvetti]

Seems potentially somewhat different given that the whole phone crashes as the OP mentioned.

You might be right. But I had tweetbot webview crash my device as well so I thought all was related

Only happened once though so maybe random coincidence...

 

[Salvor Hardin]

The panic logs at least mine list "ftp-proxy" as the panicked thread so I'd say the use of PAC files is absolutely the cause for these specific crashes. Either it's a glitch in 9.3 or possibly some new security measure if the PAC happens to redirect one of Apple's services despite it being to a dummy address like localhost.

 

[thekayman]

I was using PAC on my iPad 2 and since updating to 9.3 I started experiencing daily crashes / reboots. Disabled it, everything was fine.

However, after a few days I realized I'd rather take a couple of crashes every day than the barrage of mindless ads on most websites. So I re-enabled PAC.