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

same here even after 100% clean reinstall without backup usage on a iphone 6.
iOS 8.1.1 update did not fix.

another thread: Major bug with iCloud restore and the multitasking menu that compromises privacy.

Wow, this needs to be fixed asap!

So the first time I noticed this bug, I was showing my boss my new iphone 6 plus since he was thinking of getting one. He opened up safari as he was testing it and it popped up a screenshot of some less than savoury content I had been browsing in private mode. Luckily my boss is super cool, so the issue was dealt with simply an awkward glance between us, but holy ****, this coulda been so much worse.

So... at least make it not take screenshots of private browsing tabs please! There's a reason for the private browsing mode afterall and I assume its to not share my, oh **** it, **** with the rest of my office!

On hindsight its a bit funny, but ****....

I can confirm this bug still affects Safari on iOS 8.1.1, as of this evening. I'd don't some surfing, switched apps and then came back to Safari which first flashed a page I haven't visited in at least a few days. I'm sure I have force-quit Safari at least once since then. I've just cleared out all my cache and cookies and am hoping that clears it up.

That said, if this issue still pops up after over one year and a major iOS upgrade then it's clearly some kind of persistent bug that Apple ought to acknowledge and address. I presume there are other higher priority items on their lists, but it is ridiculous such a clear big has been allowed to persist for so long.

HI

i can confirm firm that this fix worked for me as well

Glad to know others have had success with the fix Jamie posted. I've tried it, in addition to the other fixes people have posted but none have worked for me. Hoping the 8.1.2 update might have a fix for this issue but release notes didn't reveal much. If not I guess I'll just use Chrome/Dolphin browsers as a replacement for Safari until Apple address it in a future patch.

iOS 8.1.1 / iPhone 5S

I've created a 30-second video that demonstrates that the bug in still there in iOS 8.1.2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPLXJPHfcgE

AFter dealing with the so called "genius " at apple. Got nothing. Turned Java script off. So far so good. But it's a crying shame this isn't addessed. we have a

llong wait because it looks like this has been a thread for over a year!

turning javascript off does not do anything for me. cheers

I Was just getting my hopes up Had to turn Java on to reply to these threads then BAM. HERE COMes that 2second flash again. i assume you removed website data before turning it off?? FYI. I have iphone 5. Well I'm deleting website data and turning off java. Wi keep you folks posted good luck

So true.... This has been consistant for too long, at least during iOS7, and now still is av major error in iOS 8.1.2. Its kind of a sporadic problem for me, but previous pages have been popping up in the Multitasking menu, some even after three weeks and at least one cache clearing, a restart, and killing of safari as an app. Apple needs to adress this problem.

you are right! Something has to be done about it. No luck with any of my tries, resetting DNS,d is able and JavaScript, resetting all settings. Doesanyone out there know if erasing iPhone and all content ,not just reset all settings,works of course that involves backing everything up andthat is a pain but this is consuming all of my energy and I am really boiling up like the rest of you. If this doesn't work maybe it's in my Sim card?! If everyone takes their iPhone to Apple and have them reboot it maybe they will do something about it. i feel like putting it where sun don't shine.

The problem is not a safari problem or anything complicated like DNS etc.

When you close an APP the IOS saves a screen shot of the state of the app on closure (this also happens if the iPad / phone is locked or autolocked). When you return to the app the the IOS shows you the saved screen shot whilst it re-activates the app and the sends you the current screen. The big problem occurs when you change oriantation (ie from landscape to portrait and even when you rotate the device 180degrees) The IOS remembers the screen shot from each oriantation of the screen for example:

You are using your ipad in private mode with the screen in landscape, you then change to another app and move the screen to portrait for the 2nd app (the IOS has now taken a screen shot of your ipad's private mode in landscape view)

You then stay in portrait mode, switch back to your private browsing, finish what you were doing and then quit private mode thinking that you are secure...

When you next open the app in landscape mode it will call up the saved screenshot of landscape (which was your private browsing) before then updating the screen hence the problem

I have found that opening the app, rotating the screen 90degs closing it and then repeating that operation for the 4 screen orientations then updates the saved image of each orientation deleting what was previously buffered

This happens to every app and there is nothing that you can do to stop it, it will require apple to mod the IOS to not remember screenshots of apps in private mode. The whole reason for this is to give the user the impression that their ipad is super fast as the app opens instantly but what is really happening is your being shown a "last seen" screenshot of the app whilst it loads in the background

I dont know how many people have to complain before apple do something?

Thank you Jamie 876. But rotation does nothing for me on my iPhone as a matter of fact I got it again after doing that. I'm just wondering if a full factory reset erase iPhone will work. thank you

So you did a 100% clean reinstall. This includes erasing iPhone and all its contents a.k.a. like new. I have done resetting with no luck but not reinstall which Apple told me to do. I am hoping this will work, has anybody tried it? Because when I bought my iPhone five newit didn't have any flashes of websites on it!. So I can see how it might work anddon't have nothing to lose but time which is why I want to make sure somebody tried itThis may be a different problem as opposed to the iPad because these flashes last only one second and disappearby the time I rotate my phone as Jamie suggested it's already disappeared I can only rotate one side anywAy on iPhone. And if you don't back your iPhone up, how do you save your pictures and everything.?i'm thinking this thread dying and people are giving up learning to live with it. Congratulations to all those who fixEd theirs and good luck