Q: ios7 keeps refreshing apps after switching

I was referring to the problem of the apps restarting... that this whole thread is about. Are you saying that that's how the ios is supposed to work?

ModusOp138 wrote:

I was referring to the problem of the apps restarting... that this whole thread is about.

Okay.

Your last few posts were about posts being branched so that's what i thought you werer referring to.

Understandable confusion. No worries.

In update to my previous comment, I've upgraded to the iPhone 6 128GB and the problem seems to be resolved.  I've yet to experience it and it's been about a month.  So while this appears to be great news, time will only tell if future updates will maintain backwards compatibility with older devices.  Regardless, seems resolved on my end

Hi,

Are you saying that on iPhone 6 with iOS 8.3 the apps do not refresh anymore when you switch back and force from one to the other?

Hi - I'm running ioS 8.1.3 and the apps are not refreshing anymore on my new iPhone 6.

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1. Beautifully expressed!
2. The *problem*/behaviour still exists in 8.1.3
3. Sometimes it takes less than 10 seconds of being on another app for the OA (original app ;-) to get refreshed!
4. Next to losing my 4 hour long email written to my father who died in 2004 and I wanted to cryy heart out to him, getting VANISHED on this device, this refreshing is the most frusteatinf part of it!
5. i May leave it sooner than I hoped to.
6. APple dora not care about its users
7. SImple asthat.
8. THis is is the native auto correct!

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Thanks.

The problem does not affect the simple-minded, and is only a nuisance to those who never knew the elegant old pre-iOS7 way. Because it is so deeply embedded in the structure of the OS, though, it will never be addressed.

Worse, increased RAM in newer devices gives the illusion that the problem has been solved, but it has not, and the randomness of the refreshes now only increases the learned helplessness of the iOS experience.

It has gotten to the point with me that I am surprised when my MacBook Pro does NOT behave like this, and I half expect it to.

On the model of love and hate being together at one end of the caring spectrum and indifference at the other, I will say that there is much to love about Apple. I am totally enamored of Handoff, for example. Handoff binds my research together between devices so I never have to worry about where it is, and this has saved me tons of time and many ideas that would probably have been otherwise lost.

So, all told, I love my Apple devices, but I hate that iOS refresh worse than I hate my wife's chewing pizza like a horse. What can I tell ya? 

I have read through 40 pages of this thread and while I'm glad I'm not alone I am disappointed that any of us are even having this problem!!

My problem is on my iPad mini. My iPhone 5C does not have this problem.

Every app refreshes, even the Settings. What BS.

I still have the same problem described in this thread and it's now so annoying that I've decided to quit apple and try another brand/developer. It seems that apple hasn't cared enough for all this time to solve this problem and for me it is a big issue. :-(

I'm simply going to accept this not as a bug, but as a conscious decision by apple to remove multitasking from iOS.  Perhaps that is what folks should be complaining about, because it was exactly that shortcoming that made them add it to the OS so many versions ago.

Problem is, Apple still advertises that multitasking exists when in fact it clearly doesn't.

That is so annoying, apple killed multitasking! I'm on iOS 8.4.1 iphone 6 plus and every single app refreshes after switching. iOS 8 is so buggy, I wish I could go back to ios 7...

I'm amazed at the fact that not enough voices have been raised to get Apple to do something about this. Does this not annoy every single iPhone user to death?!

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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I've been just testing a bit and didn't find a pattern yet. Seems like for some reason iOS doesn't free up enough memory from the  least used apps so there's not enough to switch just between two most recently used apps.