

Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus.

Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. Some people report that clearing the app's cache fixes things for them, but that is only going to work if you can keep the app working long enough to do it. It's easier to fix a problem that's easily repeated, but let's cross our fingers that Google gets a fix out the door sooner rather than later. It's that unpredictability that could make this a problematic issue to fix. On a completely fresh install, we found that the issue also didn't occur. However, on another iPhone running iOS 15.2 and the same Chrome version, the freezing issue didn't occur. Older app versions on the same device worked without any issues. The freezing issue only occurred following an update to Chrome for iOS to version 97, which hit the App Store about three days ago. We've since been able to replicate the issue on an iPhone running iOS 15.3. I haven't been able to replicate the problem on my iPhone 13 Pro Max running iOS 15.3, but there are plenty who have. Multiple reports across social media, spied by 9to5Google, show that the problem is more widespread than Google will surely like.
