Q: Safari loading old pages?

Turns out my problems did not go away.   I posted, again that day, expressing my frustrations, but Apple deleted my post.

I don't agree with them but it's their board.

Anyway, at this point my iPad is virtually unusable.  Between the wrong pages loading, videos not working, missing calendar entries, and Safari aborts, I'm done.  I've given my iPad to my wife to use as a Kindle.  I'm going back to my pc and Andriod phone.

Let's see if Appple deletes this post too.

Oh, that's not fun to hear. Neither of the two things actually!

I used a bit of my free time this weekend to try fix this problem again. Restoring the iPad again.

No fix!

I'd be curious to know.  Is there anyone out there who does NOT see this problem with IOS 5.x Safari loading stale pages when you hit the back button???

It happens about five times a day, I just love getting old news, then having to reselect a site. Most of the time it's oblivious. I'm running an iPad 2 with all the updates!

Same problem here, and it's almost 2012. Safari reloads old web pages, crashes for no apparent reason and shows only a black screen for most video. Where's the fix?

Same here.  Mainly news sites.  Deleting cache only works until the page is cached and then the page changes again. Could this be specific to how a site is created and how safari works with that page?  It mainly happens on news sites that are frequently changing their content.  Maybe it happens more on other sites but is less noticable since the content isn't changing.

I have the same issue also. So I tried to turn on safari's debugger to see if I could see anything. I didn't find anything useful but to my surprise when the debugger is on....the issue goes away. Give it a shot to see if it helps you out too. To turn it on goto settings -> safari -> advanced ->debug console.

I changed the setting from Accept Cookies from Visited to Accept Cookies Always.  So far it seems to have helped.

I did the same. Worked for about an hour!

Apple's silence on this issue is infuriating.  This issue was evident within hours of the iOS 5 release.  Apple thinks they can make inroads into the Enterprise by playing the ostrich?  There is no circumstance I will let an arrogant SOB company like this into my enterprise.  If a company like Apple cannot even acknowledge that their touch tablet has a significant web browser problem, one that they realize and plan to correct, then they don't ever deserve to be taken seriously.

Web browser is chore number one for a touch tablet, and this one fails miserably.  Why do you even have these forums Apple?  So you can watch your customers flail around for solutions and flame each other?  I have never seen an Apple rep in this forum discussing this issue on the numerous threads addressing it.  Completely useless.

I manage VMWare, EMC, Netapp, Cisco and the like in my enterprise.  The attitude that Apple takes towards their users, and the skill level of the contributors to the forums, is like pre-school by comparison to real technology providers.

After resisting having anything to do with Apple for 20+ years in my career, I finally gave in with the iPad.  I loved it and I loved Apple, right up until iOS 5 came out.  Then I found out there is no OS roll back for honest custmers, and no support whatsoever coming for these types of problems.  I will never patronize Apple again if they continue to maintain radio silence on these assinine, maddening frustrations.

I am using iCab as the browser on my iPad and I like it although it has some features I do not use. I had not noticed iOS version of Safari doing funny things.

I mostly use my MacBook Pro and the latest Lion and Safari versions for browsing. This back button problem is irritating. I wonder if it has something to do with the refresh function. Previously on news sites I used, clicking the back button would cause Safari to query the site and check if the page had updated. If it had it would automatically load the updated page, not the last page I had seen. If there was no update it would load the last page I saw.  It does not do that anymore. I have to manually refresh every news page after I return to it and it looks current and has not loaded one from three days ago. Frequently the refresh gives a new page because it has updated and Safari missed it.

I've too have consistently been seeing old pages load in safari when hitting the back button.  It is very annoying for me as well, and I too am surprised that it's gone on so long without a fix.

It's extremely visible on any site whose content changes frequently, such as yahoo portfolios, huffington post or Mac daily news.

I've been trying the debug console setting for the last few minutes  and so far it seems to work

Pete

Since October 2011?

Apple, in this case, your silense isn't golden. It is shame on you!

This necrocaching - bringing up long dead versions of the page I was just at a minute ago - is definitely my chief annoyance with my iPhone, and has been for some time. It's such a pervasive, obvious bug that I'm suprised they didn't address it long ago.

clear cache then immediately changing to private browsing has helped ... At least so far.