Safari iOS 7 keeps flashing previously closed tabs upon reopen? Security Problem

I Have also noticed the same thing A number of times...and ill be honest, most of the time the webpage image that appears for second after being cleared from data for a long while, is pretty private by nature If ya catch my drift. This is a big problem, a glitch for sure but why? And why no response from apple?

It is a serious problem. No response from Apple: they don't respond to this forum, and they don't respond to feedback either.

The best, safest solution I can come up with is to navigate away from sensitive/private content before closing/multitasking out of an app. For example: after you are dons browsing in private mode, pull up images of a honey badger before you close the tab and exit private mode.

Regarding why, some fanboy on the wiki states it's a feature for saving ram and battery life. Speaking of fanboys, another one removed our posting on the wiki page and subsequently protected the page from restoring it.

Apple's developer guide even encourages app devs to have the app hide content before it passes the app close command. Unfortunately, almost no apps do that, even Apple's own Safari fails at it.

Agree with everything you said. Also, regarding your work around... I have seen a very old page show up when activating Safari. Your work around may or may not be effective against this issue. Please see my comment on Page 10 as to why this is happening. And my thoughts as to why Apple has not fixed this - They don't know how to without removing what they consider a "feature." Thanks.

😠I Have this problem too! It's very random and most times it shows the same screen from months ago MULTIPLE timeS. There is really no rhyme or reason I can make out. Has anyone found a way to fix this yet!?!?!? Or must we ALL call Apple computers and make individual complaints until we just all clog the phone lines for them to notice or even care!?!?!

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i have approached my lawyers with a few to suing as it is a huge security issue. We'll see what transpires........

I'm having this same issue with my iPhone 5.....this seemed like the best thread to post in even though it is iPad.

A few weeks ago I was browsing adult websites on my iPhone in Safari. A few days later I'm closing apps and see a graphic image pop up when I'm scrolling between apps. I can now replicate this happening by opening Safari, rotating the phone and double clicking home.

I've tried everything but no luck. It seems from my research this happens to folks surfing adult sites mostly....is that a coincidence?

If I could just get it so show a different image this wouldn't be such a big issue. This is a serious security flaw, and I was hoping Apple would address it with the latest update, but nothing.

Has anyone tried doing a full wipe of their phone and starting from scratch? I think this wouldn't solve the problem, as whatever cache is holding this image I'm pretty sure would still be there.

Someone mentioned legal action, which seems like a sure class action lawsuit based on this major security flaw that isn't getting addressed by Apple.

I'm just posting to see if anyone has any success stories, as I really need this fixed on my phone.

tippingpoint wrote:

I'm having this same issue with my iPhone 5.....this seemed like the best thread to post in even though it is iPad.

Same here. Both my iPad and iPhone experience this same issue.

I've tried everything but no luck. It seems from my research this happens to folks surfing adult sites mostly....is that a coincidence?

It seems to be related to apps that don't clear the screen of sensitive information after the command

applicationDidEnterBackground:

At this point I have made the conscious effort to change to nonsensitive content before closing apps. I've noticed that some apps already clear the screen when closing, while others simply pull up a splash screen (instead of a saved screenshot) during the 1-2 second loading time. I guess I am getting used to which apps suck at it and which I don't have to worry about. This is not a fix though, but it works for me interim. I cannot imagine how this issue would affect my business mobile was an iPhone.

Guys, managed to fix the issue by following the suggestion found in below thread (last reply from user appledaterrible)

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1828082&page=2

Hope it works for all of you as well!

Just tried the app and what a surprise it does not work. I would be nice if people would test their "solutions" before posting here.

Hey kseipryn, thanks for the link.

I downloaded the Battery Doctor app and followed the poster's instructions. On my first attempt it did not work and the graphic image still flashed in Safari.

I tried running Battery Doctor again and after opening Safari and rotating from portrait to landscape for the past day, it seems to have fixed the problem. Note that it doesn't fix the issue of an old image flashing in Safari, but it at least let me re-create the issue and now a much nicer, non-graphic image is flashing in Safari. I used to be able to get the graphic image to flash pretty easily by rotating my phone and multitask switching between other apps and Safari, but after many attempts it appears to have been overwritten with this technique.

Thanks!

While it helps my situation (and is a great lesson on being careful when looking at adult sites on my phone) it is still a pretty major security flaw that Apple is not addressing.

Interesting. I tried that and it is not removing the image no matter what. That's after doing the boost and the junk feature.

Sorry to hear that it didn't work out for you.

Just for reference, I'm using iphone 5 with IOS 8.2

Seems like there is no universal solution on this issue and Apple is doing a pretty **** good job in ignoring this issue.

I'd try it again. The first time I started the Battery Doctor app, I did the Junk and Memory tests and it didn't work. The 2nd time I opened the app, it presented me with a screen saying to accept or acknowledge what the Battery Doctor app does that I didn't get the first time.

After running the app, make sure you are rotating Safari in all directions (especially upside down) and multitasking between apps. I did this in all directions for a while, and it seemed to work.

A few days later, I haven't seen the image, and believe me, I've been trying to replicate it to make sure this worked, which it appears to.

Good luck

It's quite unfortante all these hocus pocus solutions are necessary. I've upgraded my iPad 2 to iOS 8.2, with hopes that this issue would be finally fixed. But, yet again, Apple has let its user down. With iOS 9 right around the corner, it looks like we'll have to wait till then for a possible fix. I wish I could downgrade back to iOS 6.

I Have the same problem and I'm thinking about switching to a Samsung device only because of this bug.