ios7 keeps refreshing apps after switching

paulfromstone wrote:

I'm not signed up as a developer.

Oh.

You did write, "I've described my experience of 7.1 beta versions".

7.1 is only available to developers.

I've had my first article success! I've contacted a few writers on twitter. Hopefully there will be more.

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/540168/20140224/ios-7-older-iphone-ipad-apple-mul ti.htm

Well done tomsruk! That's considerably more success than I've had trying to get any interest generated.

Your The Man!

From the article

One possible solution to this problem is to update the iOS 7 to the iOS 7.0.3.

???

typo?

Can't do it now (or for the last +3 months)

Great they are reporting it but wonder how much research they actually did.

Oops, autocorrect, I meant "You're The Man". LOL - Yea, I noticed the possible solution thing too.

I was sure hoping the 7.0.6 would silently fix it.

I have gotten so used to it, I just work around the problem now. Since it seems to be related to time, I switch screens quickly, get the info I need and switch back real quick. If I switch screens quick enough I can do it without losing my place on my web page. If it takes me a long time to find the info, I just switch back and forth more often. When I do this, I always curse loudly at my phone and let others around me know how irritated I am with my Apple phone. At first, it was rare that I found someone that would admit they had a problem with theirs too. Now it is common place. I found a woman last week that had not updated her 4s and was still on iOS 6. Several people around us said they would swap her their 5s. One guy started trying to sweeten the deal with cash. She declined.

This happened to me this morning, losing a very long and carefully researched post I was trying to make. It's happened many times before, but I threw the iPad across the room this morning. I was so happy to find this thread, and after page 4 I was very confident that the problem would be solved by page 34. lol

It's like that thread about USB drives spontaneously ejecting on MacBooks, barely acknowledged, driving us all batty. I will not buy a new iPad as a fix, that's for sure. This thing is still good for watching TV and reading leisure books. Just worthless for anything serious.

I have a new iPad Air with iOS 7.0.4 and no apps open, just rebooted and Safari refreshes the page every time I switch tabs IN the app.

It is not a low memory issue. It is a bug.

Was going to update to 7.0.6 but there is no mention of a fix for this in that update.

Welcome to my world. I have had to change the way I was used to doing things with my iOS device to work around this bug. I've given up hope that this will get fixed. I'm the conspiracy theory guy. I think Apple wants this "feature" in the iOS, otherwise, they would have fixed it. People tell me I'm wrong, but I dont think so.

I think you've been watching too much OS X-Files :-)

IForbes' comment is both discouraging and encouraging. As I've mentioned before, it's encouraging in that it's not restricted to old devices, i.e. there is more likelihood that Apple will fix it.

But I'm still aghast that it's taking so long. I'm still sort of optimistic ...

I take your point paulfromstone!

Okay, I just finished reading all 34 pages of this post during a coast to coast flight. I wish I would have know about this before updating the iOS on my iPhone 4s GSM! You all have done an outstanding job of outlining the issues I am having with the new iOS 7.0.6. Especially the lengthy article posted by helveticum, it is exactly what I'm experiencing.

I was still holding onto the old iOS that was in place before the new Apple mapping software rollout in iOS 6. There was so much bad press and I liked the built in google maps that I put off doing any updates, even at the expense of not having the latest apps. But after hearing all the press about the SSL vulnerability and the "you must do it now!" coming from every news source, I decided to finally update the iOS to 7.0.6. What a nightmare! I really wish I hadn't updated.

Unfortunately, I also updated my iPad 3rd generation Model A1416 to iOS 7 as well.

Aside from other irritations such as stripping out podcast and requiring a separate stand alone app that lacks the previous functionality, and the change in graphics and functions (and I'm sure some improvements), this app switching and safari shuffle refresh issue is a major wake up for me. Not only is it irritating, it is unsafe with the GPS issues on the new Google and Waze mapping apps I've experienced. I'm sure my next cellular data bill is going to be thru the roof since it keeps refreshing pages and apps.

I can't believe there hasn't been more press surrounding this issue! Especially, if many more pre iOS 7 users were convinced to make the upgrade recently due to the SSL concerns.

Thanks for the excellent, yet disappointing 34 pages of reading.

And, HappyValleyLion, even when there is press or tech-site coverage of the problem it is strangely low key.

ERSinclair mentioned having to use more work-arounds on his iDevice. In planning some Python customisation of the Editorial app this morning, I found myself ready to have the reference documentation up on my Windows 7 (now there's a 7th generation OS that just works) laptop while I program on the iPad. Before iOS 7, I would simply swop between Editorial and iBooks on the iPad but in iOS 7 the delay in iBooks refreshing itself makes this a frustratingly, teeth-grindingly impractical.

It's the Apple veil of secrecy and silence that annoys me as much as anything. Just one "We're working on it" would be nice. It's like that feeling one gets when studiously being ignored (more common in the UK than the US) when you walk into some cafés.

Spot on, helveticum.

I don't understand the lack of publicity. The app refresh issue has certainly affected me significantly more than the Maps issue of iOS 6 (easily rectified by installing Google Maps), which was heavily publicised. Maybe it's just because it's a lot harder to describe than simply showing an image of a map with a location in completely the wrong place.

What's worse than Apple's lack of response for me is that they're actually deleting my posts when I'm trying to be helpful.

If anyone wants a tin foil hat, I can show you how to make one.

It doesn't fix your problems, Apple still wont listen to your thoughts, but it gets peoples attention.

It's a real conversation starter.

You get to talk to them and spread the word about how much you hate iOS7.

Unlike Apple, at least they listen.