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ios7 keeps refreshing apps after switching

I dont know if this is a new "feature", but it's really annoying.


If i have, say, an open webpage in Safari, and say i've scrolled down the page and zoomed in to a section i'm interested in, then switch to Mail to get some info, and then switch back to the webpage, the webpage will refresh and take me back to the top.

It's REALLY annoying.


Why can't it just stay where it was, like in ios6??


Is anyone else having this issue? Can anyone think of a fix?

iPhone 4S, iOS 7.0.2

Posted on Sep 27, 2013 12:16 PM

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Posted on Apr 16, 2017 11:14 AM

Just adding my issues here in hopes it gets attention from the powers that be


My Experience is as follows


Games - take your focus off the game and come back later and you have been refreshed out of a life and progress on current level. (I'll admit to playing Candy Crush when I have 5 idle minutes here and there )

Forms - Leave to get info on another page or app and come back to find your form emptied of previous entries.

Downloading Apps . take the focus off the app and it does not download in background as it did previously. Refocus to apps and page is refreshed to home page.

Facebook - since this is always on in background you may take a call, do work, etc and come back and now have refreshed what you left off with.


It is quite irritating and can not be called advantageous to the end user experience in any way. Maybe this frees up memory and makes the phone faster but at what cost?

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Mar 24, 2016 11:15 PM in response to Lawrence Finch

Does anyone know if these problems exist on the new, smaller iPad Pro?


My iPad 2 used to fly when it was first released but, like most users, has seriously slowed down with each incremental update to the point where it's far from a pleasure to use.


'There was a problem with this web page so it was reloaded', the bewildering tab refresh problem that obviously will never get a fix, the iOS Mail app closing as soon as it's opened, the SERIOUSLY S..L...O......W lag between keyboard input and waiting for the characters to appear on screen. etc. etc. etc


I need to upgrade now, thanks to Apple's (likely intentional) increasingly poor OS/hardware compatibilty, but if the aforementioned problems still exist and simple multi-tasking is still beyond the realms of iOS, then I'll have to consider another platform.


Shame really as I like iMessage.

Nov 21, 2016 11:42 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

Lawrence Finch wrote:


If the 2 most recently used apps are occupying all of available RAM that would explain what you see, and why it isn't reported by everyone. I don't generally see this issue, but I also close unused Safari pages periodically. They can accumulate very fast.

I've been plagued by this problem since iOS 7. That's a long time ago, and I'm now on iOS 10.


From memory, the problem also affected mail in iOS 7, and it was easy to lose a partly typed email. In iOS 9 that was mostly fixed, but the cursor moved to the top of the email when returning from another app. That seems fixed in iOS 10.


I did see the problem to a small extent in iOS 6. When returning to Safari on a website that expired the login cookie on browser restarts, I found I was occasionally logged out. With iOS 7 and above, that website logs me out every time.


I do feel that the problem is a lack of memory, and app authors not rewriting their apps to restart properly.


Has anyone tried Lawrence's suggestion to close Safari tabs? I often have many open. Perhaps this is why some people experience the problem more than others. I'm sure there are many people who barely use tabs. I'm going to experiment with regularly closing them all.

Dec 17, 2016 2:37 PM in response to sjmawer

I have the same problem on 8.4.1 . I was running iOS 5 before (yes you read that right), which did not behave like this.

To those who say it is not a problem, and that it works as intended... I'm sorry this isn't how a multi-tasking device is supposed to behave. No other multitasking computer OS I have ever worked with has ever acted like this.


I'm not running a whole lot of apps either: the basics (phone, message, calculator, camera) plus Safari (with 2-3 tabs) and on occasions Google Maps.

Since the problem did not exist on iOS 5 (nor on iOS 6, if I go by the various reports on this thread) either it's a bug, or Apple have decided it is a good idea to make running apps drop part of their memory when the phone gets low on RAM to overcome how bloated and RAM-hungry iOS has become.


In any case, it is totally frustrating.

What's even worse: due to Apple's overly restrictive policies and iOS signing dictatorship, I cannot revert back to iOS 5 or 6.

So I'm SOL.


P.S.: Just to make it clear, I'm not an Apple hater. While I much prefer PC's to Macs and Windows (even 10) to OS X in general, one thing that I am NOT is a fanboy : I give credit when credit is due and I criticize when criticism is due.

iPhones are nice pieces of hardware.


P.P.S.: Please avoid troll-posting / post responsibly. Posts that imply that one can buy a different device if one is not satisfied are pointless and bring no solution. Not to be rude, but please don't bother posting such meaningless comments.

Dec 17, 2016 9:27 PM in response to mach128x

See, the thing about this forum is that everyone can post their opinion if they wish. Only the moderators get to decide if a post is not "responsible". You got to say what you wanted, and if someone else wants to reply with what they want to reply with, you are just going to have to go with the flow. You don't get to proscribe certain types of responses to your posts....


GB

Dec 18, 2016 11:47 AM in response to Chris CA

Well, the "post responsibly" bit was intended as humor on my part in reference to the drink responsibly campaigns.

I guess I was just trying to kill yet another Apple hate/love type flame war before it even began.

I see so many of these "buy something else if you don't like it" type comments on these forums. Given that people come on threads like this to look for actual technical solutions (and to vent a little at the same time), the helpfulness of such comments is near zero.

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