In my role as spokesperson for Dan’s army of Tech Savvy At-Risk Youth™, I have some news about this Savage Love iPhone App to share.
The news is that we’re acutely aware of the crashing issue some of you have been experiencing, and are hard at work on a fix. This issue never came up in our testing (obviously), nor did Apple discover it during their review process. From the reports we’ve seen so far, it seems to only affect 3G hardware (not first generation phones, and not 3GS), which is weird, but there you go.
In better news, we’ve had reports that restarting your iPhone* may fix the problem, at least temporarily. Hopefully this will be enough to give you your Savage Love fix (on the go!) until the bug fix release is out.
Sorry for the troubles, and thanks for your patience.
* Don’t know how to restart your iPhone? It’s easy! Hold down the Sleep/Wake button (the one on the upper right edge of your phone) until you see the “slide to power off” message. Then slide the red slider to turn off your phone. Once it’s off, hold the Sleep/Wake button again for a second or so to turn it back on.
The “Don’t know how to restart your iPhone” endnote is hilarious and I am sure very much needed.
Yep. I power down my phone every night when I go to sleep, but I’m sure an awful lot of people don’t.
Does it happen on all generations of the Ipod Touch? or the iPad?
Thanks!
Crashed on my 3G iPhone but a restart has it working just fine – AMAZING APP! 🙂
It is possible to crash your iPhone even worse than that; if it’s completely frozen, you can do a hard reboot by holding down the sleep button and the…uh….other button? for a little while and it’ll reboot.
The Stranger’s “let do bong rips and tell Dan that we are working, he won’t know since he is at havana’s” testing department.
Needs an Android version.
Love the app. Now I can MAYBE satisfy my constant need for Savage.
so it sounds like this is basically a single purpose rss reader. how is it possible to mess up something like that?
Man Apple shit is buggy!
Could come from people gazing at your app, rubbing their fingers on the icon longingly for hours on end.
Pszts..fizzle…bye bye iPhone/Pad.
@10,
Is that all this thing really is? Just download Opera Mini and point i to….
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Rss.x…
Worked fine on my old HTC Dash, works fine on my new Android, Opera Mini kicks ass. Ironically, the built in Chrome Browser cant even display RSS feeds.
Doesn’t work on my itouch. Open app. Appears to load. Then crashes.
“To fix the problem, try turning your computer off, then turning it back on again”
Funny, that’s exactly the same thing microsoft always tells people to try.
Apple is not the problem, hipsters-
it’s the shitty app….
@15: In truth, Apple is every bit as bad as Microsoft, about everything.
17
YOU LIE !
Could you guys possibly enable a way to skip through the podcasts. a la the This American Life app? As it is, if I am halfway through a podcast and have to quit out of the App, I am stuck starting at the beginning again…
what tryptofan said.