I'm back on this thread for the first time in a long time. I was one of the original posters to this thread back in fall 2013 when I started having the problem with my iPad 2. Since then I've kind of just worked around it -- not at all happily -- and just tried to contain my frustration with a kind of resigned helplessness. But I also got an iPhone 5s in early 2014 and I have to say that I'm pretty sure I've never had the app reset problem with it.
The thing that puzzled us all back in 2013 when iOS 7 first came out and we first started noticing this problem, is that we were never sure if all iPads and iPhones running iOS 7 had it. At first we thought what was going on was that everyone actually had the problem but that few were savvy enough to notice and name it. But then we started getting reports of people running iOS 7 and not having the problem. It was almost as if some iPhones and iPads had some weird hardware glitch, or some unknown software setting that wasn't undone even with a full refresh, that caused the problem.
And now, almost two years later, I'm very surprised to hear that people are reporting that even with the iPhone 6's some people are still reporting the problem. I'd assumed that with the iPhone 6 the problem would be long gone. After I got my iPhone 5s and saw that I wasn't having the problem, I sort of figured it was a problem of the iPad 2 not having enough memory for iOS 7 to perform its multitasking and that the iPhone 5 series had more memory (twice?) and therefore that was what eliminated the problem.
But if people are still suffering from this with the iPhone 6 which certainly has at least as much memory as the various 5's if not much more, then it makes me realize that in the two years we've been discussing the issue we still don't have a very good understanding of it. We still don't know who has it and who doesn't, which phones and tablets have it and which don't, whether everyone with iOS 7 and 8 actually has it but isn't an advanced enough user to see it, etc.
ModusOp, you ask whether this problem doesn't annoy every single iPhone user to death. This is the exact same question we were wondering about in fall 2013 when we first started noticing the problem. You're asking a real question, a question that we genuinely don't know the answer to. Is it that not all iPhones and iPads running iOS 7 and 8 have this problem and most users either just suffer silently or can't understand or name the problem? My suspicion is that not all iPhones/iPads have this problem (my iPhone 5s doesn't seem to), but if that is the case we still haven't a clue as to what distinguishes those devices that do from those that don't.
Of course the saddest part is that after almost two years and countless web pages of description we haven't ever gotten the slightest bit of help from Apple or even a simple acknowledgement that there's a problem. Scores of us in the last two years have sent feedback to Apple via their web page, taken our devices to Apple Stores, spent much phone time with Apple tech support -- and unfortunately all has come to naught. I hope someone can carry this forward and eventually get some resolution.
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