So, why do apps keep crashing on iPhone? There are many reasons why your iPhone apps may be crashing. Because of this, there is no one-size-fits-all solution for fixing crashing iPhone apps. However, with a bit of troubleshooting, you’ll be able to get back to your favorite apps and games in no time. Let’s look at the solutions you can apply when an app keeps crashing on your iPhone.

How to Fix an App That Keeps Crashing on iPhone

1. Check Your Internet Connection

If your app requires an internet connection to function, poor Wi-Fi or hotspot connection may cause the app to crash on your iPhone repeatedly. You can test whether your internet is functional with a simple Google search on the Safari app and loading some web pages. To solve internet connection problems on your iPhone, try restarting your router, connecting to a different Wi-Fi network, or applying these solutions if your iPhone is not connecting to wi-fi.

2. Charge Your iPhone

If your iPhone’s battery is running low, plug it in to charge before launching the app again. A low charge can cause your device to struggle with power-hungry apps, leading to abrupt crashes.

If you’re playing a multiplayer game with high-quality graphics, yet there’s only a battery level of 10 percent left on your iPhone, your app might close abruptly because your device is struggling to provide enough power to support it.

Heavy usage of your iPhone while charging will likely result in overheating. This might cause your iPhone to lag and close apps. It’s also bad practice if you want to maintain your iPhone’s battery health.

3. Close and Relaunch the App

Swipe up from the bottom of the screen to launch the App Switcher, swipe left or right to find the crashing app, and swipe up to close it. Then, head to your Home Screen to relaunch the app.

Even if an app closes abruptly on your iPhone, it may still be open in the background, albeit unresponsive. When you re-open the app from the App Switcher, it may only display a blank screen and crash once more. Exiting the app completely before relaunching it clears that stuck state.

4. Update the App

Developers often release app updates to fix bugs and patch other performance issues. When your apps keep crashing on your iPhone, updating them may just be the trick to solving the problem. Go to the App Store and search for the app that keeps crashing. If an update is available, you’ll see an Update button instead of the usual Open button. Tap Update to install the latest version. If multiple apps keeps crashing on your iPhone, tap your profile icon at the top right corner of the screen, then tap update all.

5. Update Your iPhone

Another possible reason why your iPhone apps keep crashing is that your iPhone software may be out of date. This is especially true if a native iOS app is crashing. Updating your iPhone’s software can resolve compatibility issues that cause apps to crash. Go to Settings > General > Software Update to see if an update is available for your device. If there is a pending update, tap Update Now and follow the onscreen instructions.

6. Restart Your iPhone

Press and hold the side button and either volume button until Slide To Power Off appears. Drag the slider from left to right to turn off your iPhone. Wait 15 seconds or so, until your iPhone has shut all the way off, and then turn your iPhone back on by holding the side button down until the Apple logo appears on the screen. Try opening the app once your iPhone has fully restarted.

7. Remove and Reinstall the App

If only one or two of your iPhone apps keep crashing, reinstalling the problematic apps will fix the problem. Find the app’s icon on the Home Screen or App Library, then press and hold it until the menu appears. Tap Remove App > Delete App > Delete to uninstall the app from your iPhone. To reinstall, open the App Store app and search for the application you just deleted. Once you’ve found it, tap the Cloud icon to the right of its name. The app will then be reinstalled on your iPhone and appear on the Home Screen. Open the app and check if the problem is fixed.

8. Check Your iPhone’s Storage

Low storage space may affect your iPhone’s performance and cause your apps to keep crashing. If your iPhone storage is nearly full, it’s best to start creating free space on iOS. Go to Settings > General > iPhone Storage to check the available space on your iPhone. You’ll see an overview of the apps taking up the most storage. If you spot any apps you don’t use, remove them to free up space.

9. Reset All Settings

if apps still keep crashing on your iPhone, go to Settings > General, scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, and tap Transfer or Reset iPhone. Select Reset and choose Reset All Settings. This restores all your iPhone’s settings to their default state without deleting your data.

Your iPhone won’t delete any data as long as you don’t accidentally choose Erase All Content and Settings.

10. Check if an App Update Is in Development

Visit the app’s official website or social media pages to see if the developers have acknowledged the issue. Developers may announce that they are aware of the problem and are working on a hotfix or update to fix it.

This way, you will know whether or not the developers plan to fix the crashing issue in a future update. And if they are, all you need to do is wait for its release. An iPhone app that keeps crashing for many users is no small issue, so developers tend to prioritize these fixes.

11. Provide Feedback to the App Developer

If you didn’t spot any announcements, provide feedback to the developers via email or other designated channels. Sometimes, only users of a particular platform or device will experience frequent app crashes, and developers may be unaware of the extent of the issue, especially if it’s an indie app with a smaller customer base.

While it’s understandably frustrating that your iPhone app keeps crashing when you want to use it, be polite and constructive in your feedback. Remember that app developers are people, too!

12. Replace With a Similar App

Head to the App Store to find and install another app that serves the same purpose as a replacement. If you notice that the latest version history of the crashing app was a year or two ago and its social media hasn’t been updated in ages, chances are that the developers are no longer active and won’t be releasing a fix.

Get Your iPhone Apps Working Again

If you’ve had a headache over wondering why your apps keep crashing on your iPhone, we hope our list of fixes has helped you resolve the problem.

Focus on finding out if it’s an app-specific issue or whether the root cause is your iPhone. It’s always worth keeping things up-to-date on your iPhone to enjoy the latest features and ensure app compatibility.

If you have tried all the above solutions, the issue may be the app itself when it keeps closing. Although this is beyond your control, it’s good to inform the app Developer about the problem you are having.

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This has become even more of an issue now that Apple doesn’t include a charger in the box with its phones. If your new (or old) iPhone is charging slowly, it might be down to a few key reasons.

Why your iPhone is charging slowly

First, lets clear up how fast an iPhone can charge in principle. As of this writing, the latest iPhone generation is the iPhone 17, with the iPhone 17 Pro Max topping out at 40W when it comes to charging speeds. That’s the fastest for any iPhone model I’m aware of, and as you go back to older generations that speed goes down as well.

Realistically, "fast" charging on an iPhone means something closer to 20W, and that’s exactly what the official Apple USB-C power adapter offers.

In general there are three reasons that your iPhone might be charging slowly:

• Charger specs: The charger can’t put out as many watts as the phone can handle.
• Cable quality: The cable can’t handle the wattage, or it doesn’t have the right components to negotiate the right power level.
• Battery state: Something about the current condition of your iPhone’s battery is limiting how fast it can charge, if at all.

I’ll unpack each of these broad issues next.

Your charger or cable isn’t delivering the power your iPhone expects

If the charger you’re using doesn’t have enough power to match what your iPhone can handle, then that explains why your iPhone is charging slowly. That’s just physics. However, in some cases even though a charger is rated for the wattage you need or more, things aren’t working. First, if you’re using a new USB-C iPhone, the charger has to support a suitable USB-C PD (Power Delivery) profile.

If you’re using an iPhone (like mine) which is still stuck on the Lightning standard, then you need to ensure you’re using an MFi-certified cable and charger. If you use any type of USB-A charger, you’re likely going to get the fallback 7.5W mode too.

The cable also need to be in good physical condition. If it’s kinked, worn, or otherwise has higher electrical resistance than it should because of damage the charging system will fall back to the safest slow-charging minimum.

Your iPhone is regulating speed to protect the battery

Even if you’re using the right cable and charger, the power management system on your iPhone can still choose to charge more slowly.

For example, if you have "Optimized Charging" turned on then your iPhone will time its charging rate so that the phone is fully charged at the point you usually take it off the charger. This is meant to improve the lifespan of your battery by reducing how much time it spends at full charge. When it works, it works great, but if your routine changes you might find your phone is only 80% charged when you pick it up. You might mistake that for slow charging, but things are working as designed.

Then there are situations where the phone will slow down or even stop charging because the phone is too hot. For example, if your phone is doing background tasks while on charge it can heat up the system leaving less thermal headroom for charging. Likewise, if you’re using the phone while plugged in, the combination of heat from the processors and from charging can limit the total amount of charge and is offset against increased power drain.

Environmental or usage conditions are getting in the way

The environment your phone is charging in also has an effect. For example, if it’s charging in a car and baking in the sun, then fast charging isn’t going to be an option. If the phone is running a GPS app or streaming music, then the same rule applies as when you’re using the phone while plugged in for anything else.

How to restore full-speed charging (or get as close as possible)

Whether your iPhone charges at its maximum speed isn’t always within your control, and honestly most people don’t actually need their phones to charge that quickly. However, if you want to maximize the chances that your phone will go from empty to full as quickly as possible, do the following:

• Use the correct certified cable and charger for your iPhone model.
• Keep the phone cool. Personally, I’ve had success with using vent-mounted phone holders in the past, but at the very least make sure the phone isn’t in direct sunlight or near some other heat source.
• Don’t use the phone while charging.

That’s about the extent of what you can do on iPhone, but you may also want to check your battery health just to make sure that there’s nothing funny in the battery diagnostics.

See also: How to Calibrate The iPhone Battery

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It might sound like a joke, but it’s true: You can fix most tech problems by turning your device off and back on again.

If you run into a weird glitch on your iPhone — maybe the sound won’t work, or apps keep crashing, or you can’t make calls — your first step should be to perform a quick restart. This will refresh the software on your iPhone and likely fix whatever’s gone wrong.

And if your iPhone is so bugged that you can’t even restart it, a force restart works just as well. This method "forces" your iPhone to turn off, even if it’s frozen.

Here’s how to restart or force restart an iPhone — and what to do if restarting doesn’t fix the issue.

How to restart an iPhone

1. Press and hold either volume button and the side button until the power-off slider appears.
2. Drag the slider, then wait 30 seconds for your device to turn off.
3. To turn your device back on, press and hold the side button (on the right side of your iPhone) until you see the Apple logo.

How to force restart an iPhone

When your iPhone freezes, it might not even be able to show you the power slider. In this case, you’ll need to "force" your iPhone to restart.

Don’t worry — this won’t harm your iPhone at all. Just beware that if you were working on a project, this will likely erase any unsaved data.

1. Press and quickly release the volume up button.
2. Press and quickly release the volume down button.
3. Press and hold the side button until the Apple logo appears, then release the side button.

During this process, you will see a slider to power off the ‌iPhone‌. You’re going to want to ignore it and continue holding down the side button until the screen goes black. At that point, the Apple logo will pop up, and after the restart is complete, the screen will activate once again.

How to Reset an iPhone

If you’ve restarted and force restarted your iPhone but it’s still not working, there’s a deeper issue at play. Some files or pieces of software might be corrupted, meaning that they’ll always cause an issue.

Your best chance at fixing these issues is to give your iPhone a factory reset. A factory reset will erase all of the data on your iPhone and return it to the state it was in when you first bought it, as if it just left the factory. This might sound extreme, but it’s a fantastic way to fix nearly any software issue. To factory reset your iPhone, go to Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Erase All Content and Settings.

See also: How to Soft Reset Your iPhone

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1. Take a Screenshot on iPhone Using Physical Buttons

To take a screenshot on an iPhone, simultaneously press the side button and the volume up button. You’ll see a flash on the your iPhone’s display which indicates that a screenshot has been taken.

2. Take a Screenshot on iPhone Using Siri

You may not have realized that one of Siri’s lesser-known tricks is taking a screenshot for you. Simply summon Siri by saying "Hey Siri" or pressing and holding the side button. Say, "Take a screenshot," and after a moment, Siri will acknowledge the request and take a screenshot as normal.

This method comes in handy if your hands are dirty, or when you can’t perform the gesture to take a screenshot for whatever reason.

3. Take a Screenshot on iPhone by Tapping Its Back

For even more convenience, you can use an iPhone accessibility shortcut to take screenshots without the buttons. This feature is called Back Tap and allows you to perform actions simply by tapping the back of your iPhone with your fingers.

To configure it, go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Back Tap. You can customize two actions that happen when you tap twice and three times on the back of your device.

Tap Double Tap or Triple Tap, and then select Screenshot to take a fast screenshot with a few taps.

4. Take a Screenshot on iPhone Using AssistiveTouch

Another way to take a screenshot on an iPhone without pressing buttons is by using AssistiveTouch. This accessibility feature puts a button on your screen that you can use to perform multiple tasks, like taking screenshots.

To turn on AssistiveTouch, open your iPhone’s Settings app and tap Accessibility. On the Accessibility page, tap Touch. Tap AssistiveTouch and toggle it on in the subsequent menu. This will add a white circular button on top of your screen.

Whenever you tap this AssistiveTouch icon, it opens a menu that provides quick access to various functions. To easily add screenshot functionality to the menu, select Customize Top Level Menu from the AssistiveTouch settings menu.

Here, tap an icon you’d like to replace and choose Screenshot from the list of actions. You can also add another icon by tapping the Plus button and assigning the Screenshot action to it.

If you’re not a fan of tapping through these menus, there’s a faster way to take screenshots on iPhone using AssistiveTouch. On the AssistiveTouch settings menu, select the Single-Tap, Double-Tap, or Long Press option and set it to Screenshot. Then, quickly tap once, twice, or press and hold the AssistiveTouch button to take a screenshot on your iPhone.

This is even more convenient, as you don’t have to show the full AssistiveTouch menu that takes up screen space. If you find the AssistiveTouch button annoying, lower the Idle Opacity in the settings menu to make it more transparent when you’re not using it. You can drag the button to any corner of the screen you like when you’re not using it.

Now, all you need to do is select Screenshot from the AssistiveTouch menu or perform your assigned tapping shortcut, and your iPhone will take a screenshot. This works just like the usual method of taking an iPhone screenshot with the buttons. When you take a screenshot, the AssistiveTouch button and its menu won’t appear in the image.

Where Do Screenshots Get Saved?

After you take a screenshot on your iPhone, it gets saved to the Photos app. To see all of your screenshots in one place, open Photos, tap Collections, scroll down to Media Types, tap Media Types, then tap Screenshots. You can edit, delete, or share screenshots just like you would any other picture saved in the Photos app.

Take a Full Page Screenshot on iPhone

A full-page screenshot, or scrolling screenshot, captures an entire page — webpage, document or email — without you having to take multiple screenshots and then stitch them together. For example, if you wanted to screenshot a 116-page document in Safari, you would only have to take a single screenshot to capture the entire thing.

To take a full page screenshot on your iPhone, first take a regular screenshot by simultaneously pressing the side button and volume up button. You’ll see two options: Screen and Full Page. Select Full Page.

If you need to trim down how much of the page is included, select the Crop tool at the top of the screen and make your adjustment. When you are finished editing, hit Done.

Finally, tap Save PDF to Files or Save to Photos (if available) to save the screenshot.

If you’re saving the screenshot to Files, you must choose a folder to save it in. By default, the Files app will select the last folder you saved something to or the Downloads folder.

Before, you could save long screenshots only as PDF files. And that’s sort of still true — depending on the length of your screenshot.

The most obvious way to see if your scrolling screenshot can be saved to your photo reel is to just check by doing the steps above. The option to save the screenshot to your photos will either be there or it won’t.

Where to Find Full Page Screenshots on iPhone

As mentioned above, extra-long screenshots are automatically converted to PDFs, so they’re saved to the native Files app. To see full page screenshot on your iPhone, open the Files app, go to the folder in which your screenshot was saved and tap the screenshot.

Here you can rename the file, draw on it, leave comments and more. You can also share the scrolling screenshot, but the other person must have Files or another PDF-reader to view it.

If you saved your screenshot to your Photos app, then that’s where you can expect to find it.

Now you know how to take a screenshot on your iPhone, even if you can’t use the physical buttons.

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