Q: ios7 keeps refreshing apps after switching

Thondwe wrote:

 

OK - family now has 4 IOS gadgets, one's still working fine on IOS 6, the rest struggling on 7.x - so anyway to rollback?????

No.

The situation now is worse than having no multitasking. At least before multitasking you knew applications were being closed and returned to a particular state when you left (like page number in iBooks/kindle). Plus you didn't lose info because your phone didn't pretend like it could do multitasking like ios 7 pretends to.

It's sad that I'd be better off with a pre 3GS-pre multitasking iphone than my 4s with ios 7.

Was just at the Apple Store and the refresh problem exists even on the iPhone 5S (I have a 4S).

Apple is definitely on it's way down without the guidance of Jobs.

Absolute garbage.

I downloaded and installed the iOS 7.1 update yesterday for my iPhone 4s. 

There appears to be some performance improvements as I am experienceing a less sluggish operation and improved touchscreen response. 

It has not improved or fixed all the app switching, app refresh, and safari refresh issues identified in my earlier post and that others have experienced. 

I have noticed improvement with the built in apps such as mail, calendar, weather, and Apple Maps ... these built in apps don't seem to be refreshing/resetting when I switch between apps. 

Other apps are still resetting.  Google Maps, Twitter, and other third party apps are still refreshing/resetting. 

Safari hasn't been improved either.  Previously loaded tabs still refresh/reset and download again using additional amounts of data from my carriers data plan to reload each tab.

The continued issues have made my iPhone 4s a paperweight.

I'm not holding my breath for a fix anytime soon.

I can't even rely on switching between tabs in Safari without risking losing data.  Www.nin.com crashes Safari on the iPad.  Apple could have given iOS some more breathing room with an extra 1gb of ram to help prevent these massive reloads, or perhaps it's just bad programming and memory leaks which won't solve a thing.  I switched from my HTC One X to get rid of the ridiculous reloading and iOs 6 did just that, now I'm sorry I hit the iOs 7 update button 

Apple employs some of the brightest minds on the planet and there must be many there that are writhing with embarrassment over iOS 7. I can only imagine that it is a top management directive that resources are not wasted on fixing something that only bothers 10%, say, of users. Like many tech companies, Apple is always looking a few steps ahead and I imagine a huge amount of effort has been going into iOS 8. We can only hope that the same mistake is not repeated.

Same Problem here.

Please fix it!!!!!!

piiong wrote:

 

Please fix it!!!!!!

Tell Apple here!!! -> http://www.apple.com/feedback/

Great idea, Chris CA, doing that now. Not sure why I hadn't done that earlier.

Would you mind helping me (and any others who need it) get my feedback straight?

What's the best subject name to give our issues and how you succinctly describe the problem?

I want to make sure I'm naming and describing the problem effectively and if we all use the same terminology, it will have a bigger influence on who ever receives the feedback.

Cheers,

Title of this thread sounds good

Bcrab, I wrote a detailed description of the problem a while back which you can find here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pb5pk5UTrT8E7c0FXR7vajImBzkwm3IHaL9Cj14UHYw/ edit?usp=sharing

Feel free to use any of it as you see fit. The statement of the problem is probably all you need for your description and the title of this thread pretty much sums it up.

Just wanted to add my name to the iOS 7 app refresh annoyed user list.  Safari in particular for me.  Who needs Luminosity to help improve their memory, when Safari is forcing me to remember my page location, due to this issue.  VERY FRUSTRATING!

Geeky4u wrote:

 

Just wanted to add my name to the iOS 7 app refresh annoyed user list.

It would be far more productive to add your name to the list here -> http://www.apple.com/feedback/

This is incredible. I'm surprised such a problem has been going on this long.

I'm also getting majorly annoyed by this.  A Google search  took me to the post from back in November with Helvetica and Rick7 trying to figure this thing out.  I thought for sure if I go to the most recent post the issue will be resolved!   Kudos to you for sticking to it and hopefully getting it resolved.

Apologies if I'm in the wrong thread as I'm not really sure if this is entirely the issue I'm experiencing, but some of it sounds similar. It's happened for months now but I've never been able to Google the correct terms to find anything useful. This is the first thread I've ever found!

My issue is that I am getting increasingly frustrated by the 1-2 second "cache" of a previous (sometimes days old) view within an app when switching to it / opening it before it refreshes and shows you how you actually left the app looking when you last left it. The iPad/iPhone seems to be pointlessly remembering a previous view of an app and displaying it briefly before switching to the correct view. I'm also starting to experience loss of un-submitted form/email/Facebook data when switching away and back to apps.

I use an iPad and iPhone 5 both with iOS7. This problem has only started in iOS7, and seemingly not initially, but it has got worse over time.

An example: Browse Amazon on Monday, close tab. Browse Apple site on Tuesday. Open browser on Wednesday expecting to see Apple site. Instead see Amazon for 1-2 sec, then the Apple site.

By the way, I've just submitted this to Apple feedback too.

Does anyone else experience this issue?