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Symptom: Often when we are using our iPad mini to check our mails, open attachments, check Facebook or even play music at times, it would crash abruptly. The screen would go blank and the lights would dim and the Apple logo would appear on the screen.
Possible reasons for “why does my iPad mini keeps crashing”:
- A major reason for this happening can be of a faulty flash memory on your device. It doesn’t show immediately but only when your device reaches that part of the memory to use it for storage or for usage.
- Third-party app is not compatible with the latest iOS system.
- iPhone is full of junk files, corrupted files, etc.
- Part 1: What to Do When iPad mini Crashes? Force Reboot & Hard Reset
- Part 2: The Complete Guide to Avoid iPad mini Crashing
- Solution 1: Clean Junk/Corrupted/Temporary Files
- Solution 2: Trim Notification Center
- Solution 3: Turn off Spotlight Search
- Solution 4: Update iOS System and Apps
- Part 3: iPad Apps Keep Crashing? Here is the Fix!
Part 1: What to Do When iPad mini Crashes?
1 Force Reboot Your iPad Mini
- Press and hold both the Power and Home buttons at the same time until the red slider appears.
- Slide your finger across the slider to turn off your iPad mini.
- Press and hold the Power button until you see Apple logo.
When iPad mini has been restarted, all the RAM gets written again, that’s why it may fix iPad mini crashing.
2 Hard Reset Your iPad Mini
Press and hold the Power button and Home button at the same time for at least 10-12 seconds until the Apple logo appears. Then please wait for it to restart.
Note
iPad mini crashing issues have become somewhat of a common issue for consumers. Gone are the days when a simple phone/device can be functional by just readjusting the batteries. Consumers now look for permanent solutions that can help them in the long run and this case the iPad mini doesn’t crash anymore. One way to do it is to get rid of extra junk files and temporary files from your device that can take up extra space and make the device slow and faulty. These files can also tamper with the memory and flash of the device so it’s best to fix it.
Part 2: The Complete Guide to Avoid iPad mini Crashing
1 Clean Junk/Corrupted/Temporary Files from iPad mini
iPad mini or iPhone doesn't provide the option to clean junk except to uninstall apps, but you can take advantage of iMyFone Umate Pro iPad Cleaner which is the wonderful solution to fix iPad mini crashing. With it, you can remove all useless files in one place, and manage your iPad mini storage memory to reduce the chance of crashing and malfunctioning.
Umate Pro Boost Your iPad mini Performance
- Clean junk files for free, including 30+ types of useless files like corrupted files, cookies, log, caches, etc.
- Temporarily downloaded files will be scanned and thoroughly removed from iDevice.
- Completely wipe hidden deleted files which are still left on your device driver.
- Incomplete traces or fragments left by third-party apps can be easily erased.
- Fully compatible with iPadOS 14 and receive lots of positive reviews from macworld.co.uk, Makeuseof.com, Cultofmac.com etc.
Only 3 Steps Needed to Reduce Chance of iPad mini Crashing
Step 1: Have the software installed and run it on your PC and connect your iOS device with a cable.
Step 2: Hit “Quick Scan” button to start space saving analysis. It will show how much space can be saved from your device.
Step 3: Tap “Clean” button beside the specific item, like “Junk Files” or 'Temporary Files'. When it finishes, you will know how much storage has been cleaned.
Tips
If you want to erase the hidden deleted files from iPad mini, choose 'Erase Deleted Files' form the left panel.
If you want to wipe incomplete fragments of third-party apps, choose 'Erase Private Fragments'.
Other Significant Features of Umate Pro:
iMyFone Umate does well to keep your iPhone clean, also it provides the complete solution to secure privacy of your iPad/iPhone data.
- When iPhone/iPad data is erased, it can't be recovered with any recovery tool.
- You can choose to reset the whole iPad or iPad data selectively.
- It allows you to preview data first and select private photos, videos, messages, call history, browsing history, contacts, etc. to erase.
- Being the first iPhone data eraser that supports third-party apps, it can erase data from WhatsApp, WeChat, Line, Viber, etc.
2 Trim Notification Center
If you have applications that are also in your iPhone, you don’t need its notifications on your iPad mini too. Your iPhone can be the sole use for those apps and the notifications. This keeps the iPad free and lighter and saves you from notifications twice.
Go to “Settings” of your iPad mini and select “Notifications”. Select each app separately and turn off its sliders.
3 Turn off Spotlight Search
Spotlight search allows you to search anything- contacts, music and apps but you can do it on your own too, so you can uncheck this field and save some energy. Go to “Setting” and the “General” tab, click on “Spotlight Search” and uncheck the items under 'SEARCH RESULTS'.
4 Update iOS System and Apps
Keeping your device up to date helps a lot. If you update your device as per trends and time with latest iOS updates, your device will function better because all the systems are updated too and made better. The same can be said for your applications that you need to update them with time so they function as per the latest development and does not make your device lag or make the use hard for you.
Part 3: iPad Apps Keep Crashing? Here is the Fix!
Symptom: An app can crash randomly when you are using it, which is more common. Or it may crash right after you launch it, which means it was just no possible to use the app.
Effective Solutions for 'iPad Apps Keep Crashing':
Way 1: Quit and Re-lanuch the App. When an app crashes, you can double-tap the Home button and delete that app from the background. Then try to open the app again.
Way 2: Clean Corrupted Files. You can uninstall the apps which created the corrupted files, or simply download iMyFone Umate Pro iPhone Cleaner to clean all the useless and harmful files. We have discussed this above, you can click here to access it.
Way 3: Force Restart Your iPad mini, which is also discussed in the part above, tap here to locate it.
Way 4: Update to the Latest iOS. Please simply go to 'Settings > General > Software Update' on iPad mini. If it show you the new iOS, click 'Download and Install' there.
Way 5: Install the Latest App. You can do updates of any apps from the App Store. On your iPad mini, open App Store, tap 'Update' at the bottom and then tap the Update button beside the specific app. Type your Apple ID password and it start to download and install the update.
Way 6: Uninstall and Reinstall the App. On your iPad mini, keep pressing the unwanted app on your home interface until all the apps are joggling, tap the 'x' button and confirm the deletion. Then open App Store and download the app again.
Dear Tim Cook: Do you even read books, bro?
Now that iOS 12 has been released in public beta, non-developers are getting their first look at the next-generation operating system for iPhone and iPad. And one of the most anticipated aspects of iOS 12, at least for an e-bibliophile like myself, is the Apple Books app, formerly known as iBooks.
Hands-on previews with Books have done the rounds already. But they all looked at Apple's built-in library, which is minimal. I couldn't wait to see how it handled a real reading situation, with a serious pre-existing collection — especially given that I'd had troubles with iBooks and my 1,600-plus e-book library in the recent past. So I downloaded the beta, fully aware I'd be dealing with bugs.
SEE ALSO: iOS 12 preview: Serious upgrades to security, speed, and smarts
The good news is I found fewer bugs than expected, and that Apple Books has some usability improvements over iBooks. The bad news is when it's working as intended, Books still seems like an app built more for show than for serious readers.
Which leads me to wonder whether the Apple CEO is genuinely invested in the literary category — or whether he's just treating Books as another opportunity to sell stuff (the Books store is much more prominent in the new app) or as window-dressing for his big education push.
Luckily, the problem can be solved with a few crucial design tweaks. There's still time to make Books great before iOS 12 officially launches in the fall. Here's hoping Cook actually cares.
How to lose the e-book wars
I've been an iBooks booster ever since the first version of the app launched, alongside the original iPad, in 2010. Here at last was a device and an e-bookstore that could challenge the dominance of Amazon and its Kindle, which was then three years old.
We forget now how much energy Steve Jobs expended selling that groundbreaking tablet as an e-reader. The iBooks app was front and center on launch day.
Apple was going to change the e-reading game, and for a hot minute it did. It allowed you to upload EPUB files, the open format for e-books, while Amazon preferred proprietary formats like MOBI. (It was easier to strip the DRM out of Kindle books than Apple-bought books, but paradoxically that just let you read Kindle purchases on iBooks rather than the other way around.)
When iBooks 3 launched in 2012 alongside the iPad Mini, it added continuous scrolling for all books, a feature I raved about at the time. It took Amazon until March this year to add scrolling to the Kindle app, and even now it's only available for books you buy on Amazon.
The final straw came when my iPad started deleting books
But in the post-Jobs era, iBooks fell behind. Amazon had Whispersync, a feature that let you pick up a book exactly where you left off, no matter which Kindle device or app you were using. Seems like a key feature, right? Like something Apple could manage easily with iCloud?
Nope: iBooks only ever synced bookmarks. You had to remember to bookmark the page you were on when putting down your iPad if you wanted to pick it up later on the iPhone. Ain't nobody got time for that.
The amazing disappearing iBooks
At last, in 2016, Apple let you store your iBooks library in the cloud. But even that feature wasn't all it was cracked up to be — as I learned when my iPad started mysteriously deleting downloaded versions of most of my iBooks, making them iCloud only.
Ibooks Crashing Upon Opening
I'd still see the titles in my library, but no matter how many times I tapped the cloud icon next to each — this was another truly annoying feature, the fact that you had to download each book literally one by one — the cloud icon would reappear next to the book a few hours or days later. They were gone from my device, again.
This was like a high-tech, no-fun game of whack-a-mole.
Call me old-fashioned, but I like to have my entire e-library actually with me at all times — for reading on a plane, or reading on a beach far from WiFi or cell service, or reading with a solar-powered charger after some future apocalypse. (And if we break our glasses we can always increase the font size. In your face, Twilight Zone!)
What was truly disturbing about the iBooks disappearances was that nobody in my local Apple Store or on the Apple Support phone line could tell me what was going on. Finally, with the help of some engineers, I discovered that this was supposed to be a feature, rather than a bug: My iPad had less than 5GB of room on it, so it was actively trying to free up space ... by deleting books.
You read that right: In an unnecessary, unrequested hunt for an extra gigabyte or two, iOS considered books (which average a mere 500 kilobytes each) to be expendable. No matter how many times you would try to re-download them, they would be tossed into the memory hole.
George Orwell himself could not make this shit up.
Enter Apple Books
I'd been gravitating towards Amazon anyway, reluctantly, but the iBooks deletion situation was the last straw. This year, for the first time since 2010, Kindle became my only reading app.
Then we learned just prior to Apple's WWDC keynote that a new version of Books would be touted. Would it hold a candle to Kindle?
The amount of time devoted to Books in the keynote was not encouraging. Apple News, Stocks, and even the Voice Memo app were deemed more important. Apple Books was literally discussed for less than a minute, much of which time was devoted to the dropping of the 'i.'
SEE ALSO: Apple doesn't need new hardware — it's going to make you buy everything it sells
Why so little attention for a major upgrade to a medium that is more important in the Trump era than ever? Were books just too unhip for the company that bought Beats, a company that is perpetually over-eager to appear on the cultural cutting edge? Was it the embarrassing legacy of a rare business defeat inflicted by Amazon, or the open wound of a lawsuit that led Apple to pay out $400 million in 2016 for colluding on prices with publishers in the iBooks store?
Regardless, I still had hope. And that hope was somewhat vindicated when I took my first look at the iOS 12 beta. (Which, by the way, has generally improved the speed and performance of my ancient iPhone 6S, as promised. Nice one, Apple!)
Open the Books app and you're met with 'Reading Now,' a neat way to have the option of diving into your current book or having a look at another. Both Kindle and iBooks load the last book you were reading automatically, which can get annoying if you read the way I do (with a dozen books on the go at any one time).
Most prominent after that is 'Want to Read,' i.e. books you've found interesting in the Apple Book Store. Sheesh, Apple, I know you're trying to sell books, but could you maybe be a little more subtle about it?
The Collections screen, above, offers a slightly more useful way to organize your library (collections were previously listed in a drop-down menu rather than their own screen). And it's nice that Audiobooks get their own section for the first time, although I still wonder why Apple decided to make Audiobooks part of iBooks years ago. They used to be part of iTunes, which seems a more natural fit despite the name: It's a thing you want to access when you feel like listening to something.
But here's the main problem: You still have to download every book one by one. Do the math based on the 'downloaded' number on the screen above and you'll see I still have to tap more than 1,400 times before I've acquired and apocalypse-proofed my collection.
This is, in a word, nuts. Amazon lets you download each Kindle collection with a single tap. Apple Music, formerly iTunes, lets you download each playlist with a single tap. Why does Apple want to make it so hard for us to manage our libraries? Don't they realize we'd be more interested in the Book Store if we were happy and secure in the thing we'd be adding those books to?
Or to put it more bluntly, is no one in an Apple executive suite a big e-book reader themselves?
In terms of the disappearing books problem, so far so good. Then again, the iPhone I'm using to test iOS 12 has way more space available, so iOS's book-deleting instinct won't have kicked in yet. Once the new iOS is officially launched this fall, I'll be back with a full review of Books — and I'll find out whether Apple has finally caught up to Amazon on the Whispersync front.
But in the meantime, there's still time for Apple to add one more simple feature to Books — a 'Download Collection' button. This would go a long way towards winning back the estranged and Kindle-loving customers, especially the ones who have filled their e-readers with hundreds of books and would be looking to port them over.
Ibooks App Crashing
After all, Apple goes out of its way to embrace Android users and make switching systems easy. Shouldn't they make just as much effort to grab Amazon customers?
Ibooks Crashing
Your move, Tim.