IOS 8 messages app hangs at random

It's a new iPhone 6, pre-installed with the latest and greatest iOS. The messages app appears to crash or hang at random, and I have to use the "double-click the home button, kill the app" approach to get it working again.
Anything specific I can check for?

Try a reset. Hold the sleep/wake and home buttons together until you see the Apple logo and then release. If that does not correct the issue, after killing the app as you refer to it, then create a backup of your device and restore from the backup. If that doesn't do it, then restore as new, not from a backup.

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I have an iPad 4 16 GB with iOS 7. There's no secret that I need 5 GB of free space to update to iOS 8. But I don't have such amount of megabytes to install new iOS due to small size of my iPad's storage. However I noticed that Messages app took 2.2 GB of iPad's capacity and it's full of photos and videos sent to me from my friends. I really don't want to lose this data, but saving all of those photos and videos to camera roll and then transferring to Mac will take forever. Is there any way to batch this process?
And also I have similar question about Mail's app attachments. How can I delete all media from emails that stored in my iPad? I mean not delete them right from my email account (I want to keep them on Gmail's server) but from iPad.
Thanks in advance!
Sorry for my English if there were any mistakes.

Hello lovecoffeemusic,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
The following article should help you with upgrading your iPad:
Resolve issues with an over-the-air iOS update
Regards,
Jeff D.

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My sister sends me a message to my iPhone (using my phone number) from her iPhone. The message comes through on my iPhone as usual, but shouldn't it also come to my iMac with Mountain Lion and Messages running? I can initiate "chats" from my iMac to her iPhone and they show up on her phone as coming from my email.

Correct. This requires the unification of the Apple ID to include phone # and Apple ID. That hasn't happened yet... at the WWDC keynote it was said to arrive with iOS 6. So... sometime this fall it should work.
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Several times a week, my message app hangs. I have an 6+. I can't view new messages or send any - the screen is frozen. I can exit the app,but sometimes it will cause other problems with other apps - notably the health app. The only way to fix it seems to be rebooting the phone. I have heard that there may be others with the same problem. Is there a fix, maybe in a future update? I am running iOS 8.2.

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Then do a reset, no data loss. hold down the home/sleep button together until you see the apple logo and then release, then wait for the phone to boot bak up.

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Updated to ios 8 yesterday and noticed that messages were appearing in my messaging app, but no chime or alert badge was appearing. yes i did check do not disturb, it was off, the sound was on and alerts were also turned on.
i've also noticed the messages app is crashing about 50% of the time and is hanging every time i use it. i'm going to backup and restore now. wish me luck.
anyone else having problems?

This was the final step in a series of attempts and it finally worked for me... finally after an hour or two of reading every post I could find on getting repeat alert notifications. I closed the app (double clicking home and pressing the red circle with the white line in it which turned off the messages app). Then I held the home and off button until the apple came on... I had also reset the DNS service numbers to 8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4: I also made sure that the badge icon was on, a sound was selected and I had it turned to repeat alert 3 times. When I tested after doing all these things the repeat worked. I decided I wanted to turn it to repeat 10 times and it didn't work.... so I held the home and off button at the same time and it reset so that the alert repeats 10 times. Perhaps the combination of all these these things did the trick, or maybe it was just the home and off button reset...

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2. It can take 10+ seconds for the camera app to activate. In many instances, the moment is long gone.
3. Switching from camera to video can take 5+ seconds.
4. Saving a photo that's been optimized in iOS 5 can take 30 seconds. Absurd.
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Hello there, Eimear_d.
The following Knowledge Base article offers up a set of steps that can be useful as a first steps for apps that are not behaving as expected:
iOS: Understanding multitasking
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4211
If an app doesn't respond to your input, or doesn't perform as expected, do the following, testing after each step:
Check for app updates.
Force the app to close.
Restart your device.
Update your iOS device.
Learn more about troubleshooting apps.
If you find the issue persists, then this article offers extensive, in-depth troubleshooting for Messages itself on your iOS device:
iOS: Troubleshooting Messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2755
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
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I have tried restoring and the problem is still present.
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We have stumbled upon a bug in iOS 5 running on the iPhone 4, in regards to the badges showing up on the Messages App.
You can reproduce this bug yourself.
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i tried calling apple about this problem back on ios 5 launch day and i even wrote some guy on infoworld about it. no one even knows what i am talking about or even cares.
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im not observing that issue on my ipad, heh
my original thread
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16374805#16374805

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I don't really care much if Apple reads this, I'm just trying to find a solution. Geez.
If you genuinely were just looking for other users help to fix a problem, and weren't expecting Apple to read or respond you wouldn't have titleled this thread as you did. You wouldn't have said: "I can't imagine this hasn't been noticed by Apple, but the lack of updates and some sort of status to their customers is incredibly irritating. When will this be fixed?" It is YOU who are trolling by deliberately posting inflamatory and misleading statements.
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