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Safari Crashes When Tapping URL field

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I have four iPhones and when I tap on the URL field or if I get as far as getting the keyboard to popup, as soon as I type the first character, Safari closes.

This is happening on my 6S on 9.2, 6S+ on 9.2, 5S on 9.0.2 and on my iPad Mini 2 on 9.0.2. My jailbroken 6+ is working ok so far.

All but the 6S and 6S+ are jailbroken so it's not a jailbreak issue. Google turns up lots of others with this problem but in trying all their suggestions, nothing helps.

Anyone have any ideas here?
 
That is extremely odd cos that just started happening on my iOS 9.2.1 iPad pro but not on my iOS 9.2.1 iPhone 6
 
JackBauer24 said:
I was having the same on my mac and iphone until disabling search suggestions.

There is a thread about it on the mac forum too, seems to be people with all different versions having the same issue.
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This seems to have fixed it. Thanks you! In case this matters, my search engine was set to Google.
 
JackBauer24 said:
I was having the same on my mac and iphone until disabling search suggestions.

There is a thread about it on the mac forum too, seems to be people with all different versions having the same issue.
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That actually did it for me.. Wow thank you. Kind of odd though that it seems to be happening all of a sudden across multiple devices. Could it be that 'search suggestions' works from a central server? (Meaning our searches are recorded?)
 
Started this morning on my iPad Air running 9.2.1

My iPhone on 9.2.1 is working fine though
 
So strange how it's worked fine all day and literally right after reading this thread it starts to crash. I was even able to tap the URL bar and search just minutes before reading this thread.
 
I noticed the bug today and the only workaround is to turn off safari suggestions.
I guess it is something they can fix on their servers since the problem started today and 9.2.1 has been out for a while
 
Mine still works fine. It must be a server issue which is why iOS and Mac are affected; but possibly only certain areas of the world.
 
This is why I don't trust Apple to make a car. "Oh sorry, tapping the accelerator causes your engine to shut off, but thats ok in 48 hours our servers will be fixed".

The emails from my family members and friends are starting to roll in.
 
oldmacs said:
This is why I don't trust Apple to make a car. "Oh sorry, tapping the accelerator causes your engine to shut off, but thats ok in 48 hours our servers will be fixed".

The emails from my family members and friends are starting to roll in.
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Pretty much the case with almost all software companies out there. To some degree even applies to actual car manufacturers too in the sense that often it might take a long time for them to even recognize and admit there's some issue and then even longer to deal with it in any meaningful manner.
 
C DM said:
Pretty much the case with almost all software companies out there. To some degree even applies to actual car manufacturers too in the sense that often it might take a long time for them to even recognize and admit there's some issue and then even longer to deal with it in any meaningful manner.
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Oh I agree - its more I worry about autonomous cars from any company out there, as this sort of thing is not unusual even on iOS where Apple is fairly good at keeping bugs at bay.
 
Same issue on all my iOS devices running 9.3 beta 2

No issues on Mac though.
[doublepost=1453965688][/doublepost]I find, browsing in Private Mode does not cause the crash.

Does that work for you guys ?
 
M5RahuL said:
Same issue on all my iOS devices running 9.3 beta 2

No issues on Mac though.
[doublepost=1453965688][/doublepost]I find, browsing in Private Mode does not cause the crash.

Does that work for you guys ?
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Have you tried disabling Safari suggestions in settings for Safari? What about resetting and deleting Safari data?
 
C DM said:
Have you tried disabling Safari suggestions in settings for Safari? What about resetting and deleting Safari data?
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Yup, tried all that but still crashes as soon as I tap the URL bar. Even did a soft reset, in vain.

The only way it's working right now is in Private Mode.
 
It's happening to many people worldwide.
Luckily enough it doesn't happen on any of my devices, iDevices or Macs
 
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