Safari returns to Home screen

When changing websites in Safari our iPad often goes blank and returns to the home screen. Just recently started in the year that we have had it. Other applications seem to work fine.

You can try this next. You can remove databases in Safari. I'm not sure it will do any good but it will not hurt anything.
You can go to Settings>Safari>Databases. If you don't see databases under the Accept Cookies field in the setting then it doesn't matter and this theory is shot. If databases is listed - tap it and it takes you to the next window that shows all of the databases in Safari. Tap edit and remove them - or at least see if one or more of those databases is from the sites that are causing Safari to crash. If they are, by all means delete them and that may help. It does no harm to remove these because when you return to that site again the databases will reload. I delete mine from time to time. If you see one that is close to the size limit alloted for that database, it may be causing an issue. Restart the iPad after you do this.
Your theory about removing apps may still hold water. You may have not hit on the one that is causing the problem yet. One other thing you can try is to download an app - any free app - see if Safari works OK after you try that. This seems to be a new "fix" that sometimes works for apps that crash. Again - no promises - but it will do no harm to try. You can always delete the app if you don't want it.

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Why does my IPAD return to home screen randomly

I am having problems with my IPad returning to home screen while I am in the middle of using it. Any ideas how to stop this.

Try This...
Close All Open Apps... Sign Out of your Account... Perform a Reset... Try again...
Reset ( No Data will be Lost )
Press and Hold the Sleep/Wake Button and the Home Button at the Same Time...
Wait for the Apple logo to Appear...
Usually takes about 15 - 20 Seconds... ( But can take Longer...)
Release the Buttons...
Also consider Deleting any Apps you have Purchased / Downloaded but you now never use..

HT201412 while using sometimes my iphone 5stops working and shows the apple logo with white background for 5 seconds and in short time it returns to home screen.please solve it

while using sometimes my iphone 5stops working and shows the apple logo with white background for 5 seconds and in short time it returns to home screen.please solve it

Hi there bencong111,
You may find the troubleshooting steps in the article below helpful.
iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3281
-Griff W.

Safari randomly returns to home screen...

My iPhone 3G, using os ver 4.0.2 (8A400), while browsing the internet will randomly return to the home screen. It doesn't matter if I am using AT&T 3G or at home using my US Robotics WiFi the problem will happen. And the timing varies... sometimes it happens in two to three minutes and sometimes it takes ten to fifteen minutes.
Is the problem with my iPhone or with Safari? Is there a resolution tot he problem?

There's very little help that a restore is going to do in this case, and probably even less calling apple. This is a very common problem people have had with the touch, and we can all only just wait for a future update to the firmware, which will hopefully fix these "glitches".

My iPod is stuck on safari and won't turn off or return to home screen

I updated my iPod touch to iOS 6 and since then I've encounntered multiple problems. My iPod is stuck on safari and I can zoom in and zoom out but that's all I am able to do, I can't turn it off nor can I go back to the home screen. I tried letting it go on low battery but it's still on. The only button that works is the volume buttons. Help please?

If the reset is not successful, try the other items of:
- iOS: Not responding or does not turn on
- If not successful and you can't fully turn the iPod fully off, let the battery fully drain. After charging for an least an hour try the above again.
- If still not successful that indicates a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order.

My iPod touch 4th keeps returning to home screen when on the internet

This is a real problem! I can't have more than two internet pages up at one time and if I try to open any other pages it returns to the home screen before thepage has even loaded. I constantly use my iPod for the internet, it's not much use if I can't open more than one page.
I have used the soft reset- holding down the lock and home buttons at the same time- before and it has worked but now my Home button doesn't work at all so I have to use assisted touch, meaning there isn't a way to do the soft reset. Can I do the resset another way?

Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Go to Settings>Safari amd Clear History, Data and Cookies
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
iOS: How to back up
- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.
- Make an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store.
Apple Retail Store - Genius Bar

Safari crashing to home screen

This is getting really annoying. Every single time that I use Safari, it crashes and sends me to the home screen. This crash will occur anytime within seconds to a few minutes after beginning to load a page. I have cleared the cache and everything else and the problem still persists.
In anticipation of a crash I stopped a webpage while it was loading this afternoon. I did this so this so that I could read the text on the page which had already loaded. Despite the fact that the webpage was no longer loading, SAFARI STILL CRASHED about 30 seconds after the loading was stopped.
I see this problem posted and there seems to be no solution. Does this affect every single iPhone?
FWIW, I pretty much only use edge and not wifi. I have 4 free gigs of space on the iphone. I am using Vista at home. Software version on the phone is 1.1.3. I've owned it since a day after MacWorld. It has never been jailbroken.

Try a Reset by pressing and holding the Home button and Sleep/Wake or On/Off button simultaneously until you see the Apple logo and the release - ignoring the slide to turn off prompt when doing so.
If this allows Safari to load a website, quit Safari by pressing and holding the Home button until the iPhone returns to the Home screen. This quits the application.
Then clear the Safari cache, cookies and history.
Power your iPhone off and on or do another Reset.
If this doesn't resolve it, time to give AppleCare a call - (800) 694-7466.

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My boss's iPad1/Safari will stop responding when reading Wall Street Journal and other news paper pages and close out and return to the Home screen where you can restart the browser and begin again.
iOS version is 5.1.1 on a 32 GB device with 12 GB free
Anyone havwe any thoughts, Time to replace device or reimage it?

Try reset iPad
Hold down the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears
Note: Data will not be affected.

Returning to home screen?

I leave my iPhone at the home screen and it enters the sleep mode. I get a phone call, up popes on the screen who it is. I answer it and when I hang up it returns to the sleep mode. Works great but when I take it out of the sleep mode the screen is in the contact list.
I hope I explained this well enough. Is this normal? All my phone calls received while in sleep mode will leave me at the contact list when I take it out of sleep mode.

Pretty sure it is normal...at least for me...anytime I answer the phone (from sleep) and go back to it later it will be on contacts. Sort of annoying, but I have gotten use to it.

Why do all my apps never open and return to home screen?

I installed my apps, but now every time I try to open one I am immediately returned to the home screen and can't use anything. Any ideas?

GREAT, thanks for the fix to a bizarre problem that was driving me crazy! You can always count on Apple discussions, can't say the same about this whole "2.0 transition", it's been a bit rough and I can't get push contacts or calendars from MobileMe to work, but I'll give things a couple of days to get back on track.
I had a strong feeling things would be difficult today after the WWDC keynote, particularly the whole push functionality given the myriad of syncing problems we've had to deal with in the previous non-push world

Mail will not display, screen returns to home screen when I try.

MMail will not display or load up. When I enter the mail icon it instantly returns to the home screen. Therefor mail will not display or show.

The Mail App is crashing on you. You might have a corrupt email, a spam email or an email with a very large attachment that is causing the crash. It could also be a corrupt setting. It's difficult to know that it could be. If you have a computer, log into your email account in a web browser and look for any problematic emails and try deleting them there.
Try closing the mail app completely on the iPad, reset the device and then try mail again.
In order to close apps, you have to drag the app up from the multitasking display. Double tap the home button and you will see apps lined up going left to right across the screen. Swipe to get to the app that you want to close and then swipe "up" on the app preview thumbnail to close it.
Next, reset the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider if it appears on the screen - let go of the buttons. Let the iPad start up.

My iPad Air will suddenly quit in the middle of an application and return to home screen.

Can anyone tell me why my iPad Air will suddenly stop in the middle of an application, (usually a game), and return to
my home screen? Thanks

(A) Try reset iPad
Hold the Sleep/Wake and Home button down together until you see the Apple Logo.
Note: Data will not be affected.
(B) Close all apps in the multi-task window
1.Double-click the Home button.
2. Swipe the app's preview up to close it.
3. Preview will fly off the screen.

My iPhone keeps freezing when I tap to check emails, then it returns to home screen HELP

Please help, my iPhone has a mind of it's own, it freezes when I check my my email, it returns to the home screen then it takes about 30secs to work again.

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HT204266 My App Store keeps struggling to load up. Requests frequently time out and searches just don't do anything. If it does load up a search, the iPad closes down App Store, returns to home screen and, upon re-opening, the search has been deleted. Hel

I've had my iPad (retina display) since last year. Over the last few weeks the App Store struggles to load on occasion and times out completely. When searches do rarely complete, the App Store closes down and returns my iPad to the home screen and, when I open the App Store again, it has just reset the store, forcing it to load all over again. I've tried closing all running background applications, with no difference being made. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

1. Double-click the Home button to reveal Task Bar
2. Hold the App Store app down for a second or two until you see the minus sign
3. Tap the minus sign to close app
4. Re-launch the app and test
Note: If necessary close all apps in the Task Bar

Mail inbox shuts automatically and returns to home screen

Hi everyone,
My iPhone3GS mail inbox displays and even updates for a few seconds then quits automatically to the home screen every time. This only started happening after only 4 days of usage without no apparent reason. I am devastated as I need to send emails on the move. Worked fine for the past 3 days though and I haven't done anything unusual at all.
I have noticed a few threads regarding this issue but I haven't seen any real answers so far.
Can anyone help? Thank you.

Well I had some success in correcting this situation. I have five accts with one of my earthlink accts causing all the problems. I had gone through all the suggested corrections and much more many times over with no success. This last time here is what I did...
1 I deleted the offending acct from my iPhone
2 I reset my iPhone
3 I went into the webmail portion of my earthlink acct and deleted all emails that were not from my contacts list. This included all the junk, spam and returned emails for the first 50 emails. I made sure that at least the first 25 emails (as that is my setting on the iPhone) were clean.
4 I reset my email acct password on the webmail
5 Then restarted my iPhone
6 I added back my offending acct
7 It reloaded the first 25 emails, which were now clean of spam and whatever else might be lurking
This solved it, at least for now. I had previously done all of this many times over, except for the clean out and re-passwording of my email acct. So it would seem that offending emails can cause the iPhone to crash. Maybe it has something to do with the lack of a Junk filter on the iPhone. I don't understand enough of these things to know, but it all works for now. Hope this helps someone.

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