Hearthstone Continually Crashes

Hearthstone keeps crashing on my iPad for over a year now. I always make sure it’s updated, I even bought a new iPad with the big amount of storage thinking that was the problem but it still happens. Whenever I open my collection the game crashes, it will crash during ranked play, it crashes when playing battlegrounds, it crashes when upgrading my mercenaries, it crashes when building a mercenary team, it crashes when building a deck, it crashes when changing my hero portrait, it crashes when changing my card back, and it crashes when changing my coin skin.

The frequency of the crashes is random, and the game boots back up in a few seconds of loading just fine after. The weird thing is Hearthstone never crashes on my phone when I do the same things. I opened a ticket because this has been going on for over a year. I did everything that the GM’s told me to do. The told me to “Uninstall the game, clear AppStore cache, turn off iPad, let it sit, turn it back on, then redownload Hearthstone”, which I did. Sadly, this did not make a difference, it still crashes. The GMs then told to contact Apple support, which I did, and I spent 30 minutes on the phone with Apple in September. At that time they connected to my iPad and scanned everything to make sure it was ok. Apple said everything is working perfectly and there was no problem with their software, so the problem and has to be with the app and therefore should addressed by y’all. I know I am not the only one because my son has the same problem and we don’t live in the same city.

As mentioned in my previous posts, Hearthstone keeps crashing on my iPad. This has been happening for over a year. The problem has gotten worse and worse to the point where I can’t even import a deck which means there’s physically no way for me to use the new expansion I just preordered. I have opened countless tickets, always with the response to post it on the bug forums and when I do I get nowhere. I have been posting every week, no responses, no results, still no fix.

I used to play Hearthstone for hours everyday. I used to love building decks, trying what my favorite streamers use, play Battlegrounds with my son, or just chill and play Mercenaries. This constant crashing has ruined Hearthstone to the point where I can’t even enjoy it.

Please Developers, I’m begging you, please fix the Hearthstone crashing issue. There are so many of us with this problem. I’ve been with Blizzard for over a decade and always supported and enjoyed our time together. But if this problem continues then I will unfortunately have to stop. I really don’t want it to come to that point. Please fix Hearthstone crashing on iPads.

iPad 9th generation
iPad OS version 17.5.1
19 Gigs of free space

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This is like my story with iPad.

Crashing is worst with shop and cardback collection. Almost 90% of times flipping through → crash.

Hero skins and coins crash.

Card collection is more stable.

Gameplay is sometimes horrible, reconnection works 90% of times, often too much time has gone and I have missed a turn and the match.

Start fixing from cardbacks and shop, perhaps you find something…

iPad 9th 64Gt, 40+Gt free

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Hey Jopas! Sorry it took me so long to see this. I’m not sure if you’ve seen my recent post, but I figured out what causes these infuriating crashes! It comes down to how much RAM the iPad has.

I ended up talking with Apple again to figure everything out. The key thing I had was my iPhone plays Hearthstone flawlessly. I can do everything in every game mode with no crashes on my iPhone. I knew that hard dive space was fine, operating system was always updated. I kept asking around and everything pointed to RAM. However, you can’t see how much RAM your device has. No idea why they do that. Contacted Apple support to see if they could tell me the stats.

Apple support directed me to a site they have with all the technical specs of iPads/iPhones. iPad 9th generation come with 3GB of RAM, while my iPhone 13 Pro Max comes with 6GB Of RAM. I dug further and found that Hearthstone requires 3GB of RAM to run. Finally, after all this time and all the forum posts/tickets I found the answer.

I know it’s a frustrating answer bc the solution is to upgrade device, but I’m so thankful I finally know why. I play Hearthstone a ton, so I am getting a new iPad. Would never have come to this conclusion without all the help of those who replied to my posts to help me and answer questions so a big Thank You! to everyone that helped! I hope you’re able to find a solution that works for you!

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That’s helpful. Thanks!

I can 100% confirm that this is not a RAM issue. I recently purchased the new M4 iPad Pro. I went with the 1TB model to get a more powerful CPU and 16GB of RAM. For me the game crashes during standard and wild games. It crashes in a weird way… it doesn’t shut down. The game continues as if the other player is away. I can interact with my cards. Play with the background items. Emote. Basically the game is frozen just for me. I caught it before and force closed the game. The reboot was able to connect me with the game I disconnected from. Don’t know what’s going on… but it surely isn’t RAM related.

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