Yesterday, Google pushed an update for Chrome for iOS. And all those people with a JailBroken iPhone, iPod touch or iPad who had updated without knowing the fact that it would crash after the update started to face issues. When you open the application, it works absolutely fine. But after 3 seconds, the application crashes and the activity continue to occur repeatedly. Of course, the fix is not to delete Chrome for iOS and reinstall from App Store. The reason is because Google has included an untested JailBreak specific code to its app.
If by any chance, you haven’t updated the application yet, it’s better you shouldn’t do it as well. Because once the app is updated, it would automatically figure out wether your iDevice is JailBroken or not and result in continuous crashes. The actual reason why Chrome for iOS crashes is because the JailBreak detection logic automatically assumes that you had turned ON crash reports in Chrome on iOS devices. On the contrary, by default, ‘send crash report’ is turned OFF which is why Chrome crashes every 3 seconds after you have opened the mobile browser.
Thanks to Saurik for pointing out the reason behind this issue. Technically, the fault is from Google which might fix the issue in upcoming version. However, if you want to make it run, you have to turn ON ‘send crash reports’ in Chrome for iOS settings which is difficult in those 3 seconds. Also, you might need to uninstall any JailBreak tweak which is Chrome specific in Cydia.
Is Chrome crashing for you as well? Let’s know in comment section below if you know any other method to solve this issue.