Pocketpedia crashes on startup

[klausness]

On my iPad 2 (running iOS 7.1.2), the latest version of Pocketpedia crashes on startup. Any idea what might be going wrong or how to fix it?

[Conor]

Thank you for the bug report. I have tracked it down to an incompatibility with the iOS 8 user activity that Spotlight now tracks, that causes a crash on iOS 7. If you email me your iTunes account email, I can include you in the beta testing to make sure that the fix was applied properly for the next release.

[bedestef]

I also experienced crashes when trying to open any record from any list in Pocketpedia. This happened after having updated to the latest issue of Pocketpedia while I still was on my iPhone with iOS7. However, I considered it was time to update my iOS to 9 and the Pocketpedia application (very useful) is now working great again.

So, it seems that Pocketpedia 3.4 is NOT compatible with iOS7.

[Conor]

Thank you for verifying the it was an iOS 7 issue. As mentioned fixed the bug but Apple does not let me run iOS 9 compiled apps against the iOS 7 simulator, so I can't test the fix. Also it seems that to beta test, iOS 8 might be required for TestFlight. I shall include the fix in the next release for those users who have old devices and are unable to upgrade from iOS 7.

[FineWine]

Yep it does crash on my poor old iPhone 4 iOS 7.1.2 (11D257).

Trouble is my poor old iPhone 4 still works and does all that I want it to do, yes it would be nice to have the latest and greatest but for the 'life of me' I can not see the point or justify the cost of an upgrade

[FineWine]

Thanks Conor the latest update fixes the iOS 7 crash problem - all is good again

[Conor]

Thank you for letting me know the fixed worked, as it was impossible to test with the Apple testing tools or iOS simulator.

[FineWine]

Thank you for letting me know the fixed worked, as it was impossible to test with the Apple testing tools or iOS simulator.

If you want I can do testing on my iPhone 4 iOS 7.1.2 (11D257) just send me the ipa file and will install them using the off line method via iTunes.

[Conor]

Thank you for the offer, but now that it's out all users of iOS 7 have reported success. The good news is that Apple is kind of right to not worry about iOS 7, it was but a handful of users out there still using 7. I always thought Apple was exaggerating their adoption numbers for iOS 8 and iOS 9, but maybe not after all. I wonder where all those older devices that can't even run iOS 9 go to die if nobody is using them as Apple suggests?

[klausness]

A bit late, but I can confirm that the latest version also fixed the crash for me. I'm still using iOS 7 on my iPad 2, because performance of iOS 8 and 9 is supposed to be pretty bad on it. I guess I'm supposed to be tossing out my iPad 2 and replacing it with the latest and greatest, but I'm trying to hold out for a little while longer.

[Conor]

Thank you.

For what it's worth we have an iPad 2 with iOS 9 and it's usable. So does not quite brick it, but is slower than 7. We do use it mostly for gaming with our kids now.