So I have had my iPad since April 30 and loving every minute of it. Recently I decided to add a LOT of pictures. Ok, maybe not a lot considering I have 57gb available but I added around 250 photos. Well.. to my disappointment, suddenly when I would scroll to the bottom of my photos my ipad would crash. And I’m not talking about the app crashing, I’m talking about the ipad completely shutting down. It would go to a black screen and the apple symbol appears again and it restarts. So I freaked out… I mean I paid a LOT of money for this thing and being an artist, one of the major things I do is draw and work with photos on my ipad.
So I immediately look for a solution. I search google for anything and everything and one of the first posts that I find I discover that another user has solved the issue by completely restoring his iPad and then reinstalling the photos. I’m not happy with that choice, I don’t want to restore my iPad so I’m thinking there must be another way. And after an hour of trying to think logically I came up with an idea that turned out to work!! I thought about how I dumped 200 some odd pics in one album on my ipad. So I started by opening iPhoto and creating a album called “Deleted from iPad”. I then moved all my pictures from my iPad to the album and “deleted” the originals. At that point I built additional albums, one called “Kids” another “Travel” another “Family” etc. then I proceeded to move pictures from the “Deleted from iPad” album into the individual new albums according to their subject matter. Finally, I went to iTunes, and connected my iPad and set my sync to only sync with those “new” albums. I applied and then synced my iPad with the new settings. Afterwards, I open my iPad and see that I have many new folders in my Photos app and I tested every single folder and scrolled to the very bottom of each and wa la… it’s fixed!! It never crashed one time with multiple tests. Previously it would crash every single time I scrolled to the bottom and now not at all.
I have come to the conclusion that Apple products are like my kids. I love them all equally, and sometimes they have issues or problems and I still love them. We just work through the issues and we carefully think through them until we figure out something that works! There is always a solution, it just takes some tender love and care, and lots of patience!
Hope this works for you.. enjoy your iPad! And treat it with lots of love and care.. it’s a very special toy. 
You’re awesome! Thanks so much for your easy-to-follow instructions!
What do you do if you don’t have a Mac or iPhoto?
How did you get the photo’s onto the iPad? If you used a bluetooth connection or itunes via wifi, then you probably have the pictures on another computer already, so I would say, delete the pictures from the ipad so that you have no photos (since you have them backed up already). Then create new photo albums on your ipad and then move the photos back to your ipad but distribute them between photo albums instead of having them all dumped in one place. I have noticed that some apps that are used to modify photos can corrupt a photo and cause problems in my iPad Photo app. Once I delete the “modified” photo I have no more issues with the album. It’s worth a try since the other solution is to restore your iPad and start over which I wouldn’t want to do.
I am SO grateful for your solution since I have the EXACT same problem and you solved it so easily with Gr8 instructions. THANK U SO MUCH!
I’m guessing that it’s really a product of having too many photos in any one file. I have about a dozen albums that i created on my PC, and none of them has ever crashed. On the other hand, my saved photos album, with several hundred “random” photos in it crashes every time I get near the bottom of it. I’m going to try making it smaller (by deleting photos), and see if that works.
With all due respect that’s a workaround and not a solution. The bottom line is if you keep adding photos to the “Saved Photo” album it WILL eventually crash. You should be able to store as many photos as you want in the “Saved Photos” album and not have to manipulate them before it crashes. It’s not news that you can scroll through any other album you create and not have it crash. The problem is limited to only the “Saved Photo” album. Maybe you can consider Apple as a misbehaving child. To me, they are a big corporate entity that sold me a faulty product, and won’t either own up to it or acknowledge that they are working on a fix. Infuriating when I got this primarily for photos!
Rich - No disrespect taken! I’ve been adding many photos to my folders and not had any crashes since I used this “workaround” if you prefer to call it that. Not sure if any of the recent updates fixed the problem or if it was just a glitch or what.
I’m actually intrigued to find that you are an unhappy owner of an iPad. I think you are the first I’ve ever met. While I will admit that I have purchased many applications for the iPad that don’t live up to what they advertise, I don’t feel that way about the iPad itself. And although I love most all things Apple, if any other company had anything close to comparing to the iPad and it’s functionality, dependability, battery life, etc. at a better price I’d of highly considered it as $880 is a lot to fork over for albeit a great tool but for me more of a tech toy.
But once I had the iPad in my hand I realized what genius Apple really is. While I don’t expect perfection with any purchase I feel confident that Apple will address my issues whether related to software or hardware.
Of course you spent a lot of money if the main thing you purchased it for was for photos. The iPad is so much more than a photo album. I find it’s uses nearly unlimited and I carry it everywhere I go. I use it for my calendar, my on the go art tool, my html editor, my mobile Internet browser, to provide customer presentations at their location without pulling out a big laptop, a mobile virtual terminal for taking payments from my customers, email, and even for entertainment, for looking at the night sky to identify a particular constellation, for searching for buried treasure, as a metal detector, a compass, a navigation system for my car, to listen to audio books, my favorite music, to wind down at the end of the day with my meditation application, I can’t say enough good things about my iPad.
Now that I’ve had it for 4 months.. I think I’d of paid double for it. A little photo application glitch seems petty to me.