I’ve been experiencing a frustrating issue in Infinite Flight recently: on nearly every busy-airport final approach, my game crashes. It’s happened many times — and just now, while flying into JFK on the Expert Server, it crashed again during the final approach. I’m using the previous-generation iPad mini (iPad mini S6 with A15 chip from the previous generation runing on iPad os 26.0.1). The crashes seem to happen only when the airport is busy (lots of traffic / complex scenery). In my experience, other users have also reported similar crashes under heavy load, especially during finals or in busy airspaces.
So I’m wondering, could my iPad be too old to handle the load? Is there a known performance threshold (CPU, GPU, memory) where crashes become likely? For those who have had the same problem, did upgrading to a newer device fix it? Are there any tweaks/settings (graphics, scenery, traffic limits) that can reduce the chance of crashing during the final?
Thank you in advance for your insights and suggestions!
I would change every setting on High down to Medium and see how that performs - you may need to lower some settings even further depending on that. The iPad mini 6th Generation is a 4-year old device (hardware-wise) at this juncture so likely can’t handle the highest settings anymore.
I would also strongly recommend doing a device restart before every flight. This ensures that Infinite Flight is able to use as much of your device’s resources as possible to run.
Just had the same kind of crash while on approach to EGLL. At a time when it’s not at all busy. I am using a Samsung S24 ultra and keeping the settings high. So far, I have had this kind of crash may be around 2-3 times in total. Very annoying when it’s hard to take out time to finish a flight out of busy schedule and when it’s hard to play on a regular basis.
Weird, I also have an iPad Mini 6 running iPadOS 26 and run high settings and 60fps, I don’t remember the last time my game crashed even coming in to very busy airports. Maybe try uninstalling and reinstalling the game to clear all your cache and see if that helps?
