Apps running on the iPhone 5s crash twice as often as the same apps on other models, according to data released by app performance monitoring company Crittercism (via AtD).
The usual rate for app crashes on iPhones is a little under 1 percent, while the rate on the iPhone 5s is closer to 2 percent.
Levy said that perhaps the reason that the iPhone 5s is seeing more crashes than the equally new iPhone 5c is that, while developers were able to check their apps for compatibility with iOS 7 during several months of beta testing, the new hardware wasn’t available ahead of time. The iPhone 5s packs a new 64-bit A7 chip and an M7 coprocessor, while the 5c is nearly identical internally to the iPhone 5 […]
“The good news is that Apple is certainly aware of issues. they’ve pushed out two iOS updates for iOS 7… Apple is doing a really old job of addressing these issues as they come up.”
Reports of bluescreen issues are still making the news (video below), despite the iWork bug having been fixed in 7.0.1. The current version is 7.0.2, and 7.0.3 is expected soon.
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Not had it crash once.. odd.
Looks like this is related mostly to Apple’s productivity apps.. they have not been updated since iOS 7 came out..
LOL… you may be right about that. These just got minor tweaks to run under iOS 7.
I have a feeling there will be an announcement for new versions of these apps on October 22.
I did experience some crashing and even some phone reboots ( !? ). I wonder how could a misbehaving app cause the phone to reboot, when it’s supposed to be running in a sandboxed environment.
I would imagine that as apps get updated to run under iOS 7 these problem would be less frequent and eventually nonexistent.
the reason of all those crashes is Crittercism library
How about developers actually update their apps to work with the new hardware, huh?
Your an idiot as usual, that’s not the issue.
Didn’t you read the article? Developers didn’t have access to the new hardware, just the software, to test compatibility of their apps. Now that they have both the software AND hardware for testing, these issues should be resolved soon.
Before you call someone an idiot, you should probably check your grammar. You look more like the idiot to me!
ahhh… someone thinks they’re smart by pointing out I didn’t use you’re for a statement, how cute. Do you want a cookie now?
64-bit uses more memory than 32-bit, without increasing the RAM on the device Apple has essentially lowered the amount of RAM you have available for applications on a 5S. Not 100% sure this is the only reason they crash more often but it is definitely a factor.
You can easily verify this yourself using Xcodes profiling tools.
This is absolutely untrue and you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Really I have prof, what do you have? Google memory usage 64 bit vs 32 bit. Or use Xcode or are you to slow to figure that out?
Here you can read it from Apple’s own docs too… https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/cocoa/Conceptual/Cocoa64BitGuide/OptimizingMemoryPerformance/OptimizingMemoryPerformance.html
Experienced crashes and the BSOD two times as well. Really annoying.
OMG i have this problem with my ipad , the problem is , my ipad doesnt show the blue screen of death with iWork apps only , BUT WITH EVERY APP
any thoughts how to fix it ?
Have you updated to 7.0.2?
yes I did update to 7.0.2 . still the problem is present
Sounds like a faulty device, then
The general lack of updates to 3rd party App Store Apps and Apple’s-own App Store Apps is absolutely pathetic and has made this one of the least enjoyable launches of a new iPhone/OS.
iOS 7 on iPad is awful. It is horridly slow, and crashed constantly. Feels like the Android tablets I make fun of for being unusable with such issues.
I hate when people pull this card, but I CANNOT see Steve Jobs standing for such a dismal rollout….Apple’s own Apps taking their sweet time, buggy and laggy iPad software….WTF are they thinking?
In the back of my mind, I’m thinking that this is a temporary period that will last until Oct. 22nd when they get around to releasing 7.1, iPads, and Mavericks. And hopefully, a frigging iBooks update.
This is absolutely untrue and you have no idea what you’re talking about.
I use iOS 7 on my iPad mini every day. I think that’s the worst-performing iPad that’ll run iOS 7. And it’s wonderful.
Not saying you aren’t having problems, but it’s worth looking into why. The two times my iPad mini started behaving badly a shut down/restart cleaned it right up.
Actually, the iPad Mini runs it well but the iPad 2’s performance is abysmal! -_____-
A bit more context would be helpful here. Is this the core OS only? It sounds like instead we’re talking about third party apps only. So are third party 32 bit apps crashing more, or only those rebuilt for 64 bit?