Ok, problem found an fixed.
On iOS8.3 if you the keyboard is being displayed and then you try to display a UIAlertView or UIAlertController that has an input field you will get this crash.
Simple solution (for me) was to insert
[self.window endEditing:YES];
or
[self.view endEditing:YES];
in front of any alerts that do this and it no longer crashes
Update
In some cases I have also needed the following line (as outlined by Oren below), with the endEditing AND this line I have zero issues - but with one OR the other I have seen the odd crash which is weird - but the combo attack seems to work !
UITextField *txtEmail = [alertView textFieldAtIndex:0];
[txtEmail becomeFirstResponder];
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