Safari websites reloading previous page, disappearing, or losing “back button history”

I am so glad to hear I’m not the only one in this. Thank you for confirming my experiences @hs_bob!

The one workaround I have found is to exclusively use private browsing mode. So far this has worked. Yes it means nothing is remembered and means having to log back into everything and prove who you are over and over, but that is much better than the page not properly transferring info before returning to the previous page.

Whatever it is it is beyond annoying and for now private browsing is really getting a workout.

So here’s a deeper explanation of what is happening… let’s say I am looking at the main page of a web site. Let’s call this page A. I click a link on page A and page B begins to load. I begin to see page B render and in a flash my screen is back to page A. I haven’t clicked anything else in between. Interestingly sometimes things like adding something to a cart, or logging in (which is having some real issues flowing correctly with this page reloading issue) actually happens in the background but I am either sent back to page A or an error page. The worst example of this is let’s say I have visited page A, B, C, and D of any succession of web pages either on one site or multiple. In other words I have a “history in the back button”. If I click from say C to D, D begins to load and then in a flash the page finishes loading and now my “back button history” is gone. No new tabs. No way to go back to where I just was unless I re-navigate back to there from how I got there in the first place. This whole issue is intermittent, but frequent enough that it’s starting to cause issues with even just simple web surfing.

My website data and history have been deleted, so maybe that will fix it. But even if it does I figure this experience will work it’s way up to where it needs to be.

I’ll update with more info when I have it.