akathy
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Post by akathy on Oct 10, 2015 1:28:24 GMT
For some unexplained reason I can't get websites to open for me. It seems the ones I have bookmarked are fine and open but if it's a site I've never been to it doesn't open. For example I'll google a recipe and the search comes up but if I click on any of the links it starts to download but then just stops.
Please tell me it's as easy as turning something on in my settings. I had the opportunity to buy a new one for $100 a couple weeks ago when I got my ne phone and didn't take it because this one isn't that old. I have the worst luck and am so hoping I don't need to replace it now when the $100 deal is no longer available.
Anyone have any thoughts or ideas for me to try?
Update
I tried a few things. I closed a bunch of tabs, removed a bunch of apps, hard restarted it, unplugged my modem, deleted and re-added my network and lo and behold it's working like a champ. Thanks so much for all the tips!
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garcia5050
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Post by garcia5050 on Oct 10, 2015 1:41:39 GMT
I hate to say this, but have you tried a reset? When mine starts acting funny, it always seems to do the trick.
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Post by phyllis on Oct 10, 2015 1:44:26 GMT
Yup, I was going to say try turning it off for about 10 seconds then turn it back on. This always works for me-- seems like it's little brain gets scrambled every now and again!! Lol!! Good luck!!
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akathy
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Post by akathy on Oct 10, 2015 1:53:53 GMT
I've tried turning it off a few times and it's still the same. You know when you open a page and that little blue line shows up under the address at the top? Well when I open a page IF the page opens it only goes a little over 1/3 of the way across and stays there. IF the page doesn't open that line only goes about 1/5 of the way across. Blah! I cannot live without my IPad! Well, I could but I don't want to  . Bah, humbug! |
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Post by 950nancy on Oct 10, 2015 2:17:30 GMT
Do you have a genius bar around? I bring mine to the counter and the nice people always know what to do.
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akathy
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Post by akathy on Oct 10, 2015 2:22:55 GMT
Do you have a genius bar around? I bring mine to the counter and the nice people always know what to do. I wish! The nearest one is at least 250 miles away. |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Oct 10, 2015 2:37:40 GMT
Are you running one of those ad blocker things? I'm running Weblock on mine, and any websites that are at the top of a Google search are probably listed as an ad so even if I click on a site I want to see it wont open because I think Weblock is considering it an advertisement. For me, other things farther down the search list seem to open just fine. Maybe that's it?
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Post by peano on Oct 10, 2015 3:08:38 GMT
If I have trouble opening a site, I click on "open in Safari" and they often behave better.
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seaexplore
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Post by seaexplore on Oct 10, 2015 3:08:22 GMT
Hard restart. Hold down the power button and the home button until it shuts off. It will then be able to be turned back on. Also, try turning the wifi on and off. "Forget" the network and reconnect. Lots of little tricks.
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Post by oaksong on Oct 10, 2015 4:50:00 GMT
Maybe you already know this, but none of your apps close unless you go through and manually close them. If you have too many things open at once, your iPad freezes as you're trying to open something new. To see what's running, double click on your home button and all of your open apps will appear. Close easy one by swiping up to get it off the screen. Also make sure that you don't have too many tabs open at the top of your browser screen. That slows everything down too. Hopefully that will help if a hard reset didn't already solve the problem.
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Post by theshyone on Oct 10, 2015 4:53:09 GMT
Hard restart. Hold down the power button and the home button until it shuts off. It will then be able to be turned back on. Also, try turning the wifi on and off. "Forget" the network and reconnect. Lots of little tricks. Before you do this, close all the things running open in the background, and close all the tabs open on the net, then do hard reset. I do get stuck at times with the little bar only going so far. I eliminate the multiple things running & it fixes it. |
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Post by DinCA on Oct 10, 2015 5:06:33 GMT
Hard restart. Hold down the power button and the home button until it shuts off. It will then be able to be turned back on. Also, try turning the wifi on and off. "Forget" the network and reconnect. Lots of little tricks. Before you do this, close all the things running open in the background, and close all the tabs open on the net, then do hard reset. I do get stuck at times with the little bar only going so far. I eliminate the multiple things running & it fixes it. And I would add clearing your history, too. Just in case you don't know how to close the apps running in the background, click on the home button twice and the open apps will appear. Slide each one to the top and it will close. |
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Post by mzza111 on Oct 10, 2015 6:19:59 GMT
My iPad was acting funky like that so I turned off my modem & router, waited a few minutes, turned it back on and voila, the websites started opening.
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Post by joelise on Oct 10, 2015 8:24:54 GMT
Maybe you already know this, but none of your apps close unless you go through and manually close them. If you have too many things open at once, your iPad freezes as you're trying to open something new. To see what's running, double click on your home button and all of your open apps will appear. Close easy one by swiping up to get it off the screen. Also make sure that you don't have too many tabs open at the top of your browser screen. That slows everything down too. Hopefully that will help if a hard reset didn't already solve the problem. Thank you so much. I didn't know this. I've been thinking that maybe it was time to buy a new iPad as it was becoming very slow to open websites. I did what you suggested and found that I had around 40 apps open!  |
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Post by seaexplore on Oct 10, 2015 14:05:54 GMT
Maybe you already know this, but none of your apps close unless you go through and manually close them. If you have too many things open at once, your iPad freezes as you're trying to open something new. To see what's running, double click on your home button and all of your open apps will appear. Close easy one by swiping up to get it off the screen. Also make sure that you don't have too many tabs open at the top of your browser screen. That slows everything down too. Hopefully that will help if a hard reset didn't already solve the problem. Thank you so much. I didn't know this. I've been thinking that maybe it was time to buy a new iPad as it was becoming very slow to open websites. I did what you suggested and found that I had around 40 apps open! You and my DD! She's always telling me that her iPad "won't work" and I check and she has like every single app on it open! I am constantly telling her to close the apps at the end of the day. |
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Post by laulley on Oct 10, 2015 14:55:14 GMT
Both my iMac and iPad have been doing that since the last update.
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Post by mom on Oct 10, 2015 15:23:06 GMT
Both my iMac and iPad have been doing that since the last update. Can I just say I hate the update? Ugh. Nothing works like it should now! |
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Post by anniefb on Oct 10, 2015 19:00:09 GMT
Both my iMac and iPad have been doing that since the last update. Can I just say I hate the update? Ugh. Nothing works like it should now! I'm waiting for OS9.1 to come out for my phone and ipad- apparently later this month or November. I was going to update to 9.0.2 then saw that you can't revert to 8 if something goes wrong. That put me right off! |
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Post by berty on Oct 10, 2015 19:49:07 GMT
I have trouble getting things to fully load, too. I agree with the other posters. Also,what I do is go to click on a link, but hold my finger there until a little menu pops and then I choose open in a new tab. Then I open that tab to see the site. It's a bit of a pain to keep closing multiple tabs, but it's the only way I've found to get sites to load.
HTH
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akathy
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Post by akathy on Oct 12, 2015 0:04:43 GMT
Updated in OP.
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. Bah, humbug!
