Thursday, February 19, 2009

Fixing an iPhone Safari Crash

Last night my iPhone's Safari application crashed. All I had was a grey screen of death each time I opened it. It was an easy fix. I thought I'd share it for anybody else who may be ready to break their iPhone in half over this issue.

My apologies to a fellow blogger who has these steps posted on his site. I don't remember which blog I got this information from, but I'm very thankful for his help.


1. Open Settings then scroll down to Safari and click it




2. Scroll down and click the buttons marked Clear Cache, Clear Cookies and Clear History



3. Hold down the power button on the top of the iPhone and the round button at the bottom until it shuts off (even after the "Slide to power off" screen appears)


4. Restart your iPhone, try your browser, then kiss it if it works and promise never to fight like that again

19 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your solution worked like a charm and that last bit made me laugh.

Anonymous said...

another perfect google => answer resolution,tx a million, worked for me ;)

whatthewhat said...

thanks! was going crazy....made the mistake of trying to download flash like an idiot before mine locked up.

Anonymous said...

Yeah it worked! Thanks for posting.

Anonymous said...

Bravo! This worked perfectly!

lynn said...

Brilliant! worked! thanks!

Sandra Dee said...

thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!!!!!

Bookmarked this page for (heaven forbid) future reference.....

Alexander said...

My Sunday morning is saved ! Thanks it worked !!

Emily said...

Thank you! :)

Anonymous said...

Worked perfect on the 3GS version 3.0.1

DG said...

Thanks - my Iphone is new and I didn't know what was wrong. Your fix was the fix!

Anonymous said...

Brilliant! Thank you so much!

Anonymous said...

It worked perfectly!!
You are a darling - thank you, thank you!

elisha said...

WOO Hoo! Fixed! Thank you!

Anonymous said...

Actually, it is the reboot (power down & restart that fixes things. I never bother to clear caches and history.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the tip, I was annoyed that within and hour of getting my new iPhone 3Gs that it locked up the very first time I tried to use Safari, but this cleared it and it's workig great now!

Simon said...

Yeah, a simple reboot was all that was needed to fix mine too (3GS 3.0.1).

Anonymous said...

thank you. Mind crashed because of porn, lol.

Dana said...

Yeah, thanks a ton. Easier fix than I though it would be!