Once you’ve done the above, delete everything above this line.
Sigrunixia asked me to log this, following on from the discussion starting here: Discord
I have held off reporting it since the only reproduction I know involves uploading my whole personal vault, which of course isn’t going to happen.
So I’ll start by logging the info that Sig requested, and add some more stuff that I can think of. And maybe we can grow the info from there…
Steps to reproduce
The normal step:
- On my iPhone 17 Pro, load Obsidian, and interact read or edit a note
- Swipe up from the bottom of the screen, to send Obsidian to the background
- Open another app
- Many times a day, within 10 to 30 seconds there will be a message from the OS saying that Obsidian has crashed, and do I want to report the issue to the developer (I run the latest TestFlight versions)
Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]
Please, follow the Troubleshooting Guide before answering Yes.
Yes. Back on 11th July, I disabled all themes, plugins and snippets, and ran Obsidian for some time, and still sometimes got crashes from Obsidian in the background.
This followed many, many hours of bisecting which plugins were enabled, and still getting crashes.
Once I established that it crashed even with everything turned off, I gave up investigation and resolved to just live with it.
Expected result
That I should be able to switch seamlessly from Obsidian on iPhone to other apps and back again, and find Obsidian already loaded when I return.
Actual result
Often I get an iOS message telling me that Obsidian has crashed and do I want to report it to the developer.
“Obsidian - Connected Notes” Crashed.
Do you want to share additional information with the developer?
A member of the team once told me that iOS crash reports had so little info it wasn’t worth sending them, so I always select “No Thanks”.
Environment
Please note that I did previously verify that the crashes still occurred even in Restricted mode with default theme and all snippets enabled.
Current config:
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: 1.13.4 (353)
API version: 1.13.4
Operating system: iOS 26.5.2 (Apple iPhone18,1)
Login status: logged in
Language: en-GB
Catalyst license: vip
Live preview: off
Base theme: light
Community theme: Minimal 9.0.2
Snippets enabled: 4
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 73
Plugins enabled: 24
1: Markdown Tabs v1.2.1
2: Tasks v8.3.0
3: QuickAdd v2.21.0
4: Templater v2.24.3
5: Calendar v1.5.10
6: Periodic Notes v0.0.17
7: JS Engine v0.3.6
8: Meta Bind v1.5.1
9: Maps v0.2.2
10: Map View v6.1.4
11: Refresh Any View v3.6.0
12: Charts v3.9.0
13: Filename Heading Sync v1.11.0
14: Simple Table Math v0.2.4
15: Numerals v1.10.2
16: Visited Countries v1.0.4
17: Advanced Tables v0.23.2
18: Virtual Content v1.0.36
19: Timeline for Bases v0.1.11
20: File Color v1.1.0
21: Auto Link Title v1.5.5
22: CustomJS v1.0.21
23: Dataview v0.5.68
24: Advanced URI v2.0.0
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Custom theme and snippets: for cosmetic issues, please first try updating your theme and disabling your snippets. If still not fixed, please try to make the issue happen in the Sandbox Vault or disable community theme and snippets.
Community plugins: for bugs, please first try updating all your plugins to latest. If still not fixed, please try to make the issue happen in the Sandbox Vault or disable community plugins.
Additional information
core-plugins.json:
{
"file-explorer": true,
"global-search": true,
"switcher": true,
"graph": true,
"backlink": true,
"canvas": true,
"outgoing-link": true,
"tag-pane": true,
"properties": true,
"page-preview": true,
"daily-notes": true,
"templates": false,
"note-composer": true,
"command-palette": true,
"slash-command": true,
"editor-status": true,
"bookmarks": true,
"markdown-importer": false,
"zk-prefixer": true,
"random-note": true,
"outline": true,
"word-count": true,
"slides": false,
"audio-recorder": false,
"workspaces": true,
"file-recovery": true,
"publish": false,
"sync": true,
"webviewer": true,
"starred": true,
"footnotes": false,
"bases": true
}
Size of the vault:
