iPad Safara Keeps Refreshing Every Tab - SOLUTION!

I am experiencing the same freaking problem, and it has been driving me nuts. One of these days I found myself sitting at the airport, having missed a flight, and infuriated with my iPad because it wouldn't allow me to search for flights, as it would reload the tab every time I touched it. It tool me almost 30 minutes between finding the correct flight and buying it... Doing it on a one tab only navigation.

Thanks man.. I'll go ahead and try this workaround. It seems to be working already. :)

This helped! Thanks!

Thank you for this solution. It works till now.

It did not work for me 😟 I think apple should solve this problem which is annoying..

Empty the catch worked for my flat mates ipad

Same problem, IOS8.1.2 iPhone6+. Especially annoying when using multiple tabs and I'm commenting or entering data in fields on different sites. The reload/refresh wipes my work. Maybe it's the site? Although I must say it doesn't happen all the time. I tried the cache fix but still the same behaviour On occasion.

OMG. It worked!!!! all my tabs are loading instantly. It's like a miracle.

THis did not work, I'll try closing the app if possible And try again.

but before I had IOS 8 I had 7.1. Something and my tabs never reloaded. I could have them sitting no problems and now, now every single tab reloads regardless if I go to another tab for a second. It is NOT the website, because prior to updating I kept mygoodreads pages open and they did not reload at all. I'm really sick of this and I think Apple needs a solution such as making it not refresh at all.

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I don't think there is an easy answer to fixing this one. I found this link and others similar that suggest that this is driven by Apple memory management techniques that prevent data storage. http://www.quora.com/How-do-you-stop-Safari-from-refreshing-when-you-go-to-anoth er-app It is very frustrating. Seems there would be a way to simply keep what you already have or indicate that a page is too large to store in memory. I have an iPhone 6+ with 128 GB storage and I have been frustrated by this issue and a similar one in the App Store (I run a search and leave the App Store only to loose my search when I return...particularly annoying if you found interesting apps after refining your search through specific terms and filters). I do think it is a poor approach and disruptive to the user experience. Hopefully it will be resolved in future updates.

I have the bug on an old ipad 2 and new ipad mini, from ios 8x to the newest today.

Clearing the cache is no solution as this means I am loosing all logins.

Should I login everywhere every 5 minutes again??

Sometimes disabling Javascript helped, but than a lot of content is disabled.

Frustrating that in years Apple is not able to prevent this.

I have this same issue with my iPad. I've tried the helpful suggestions from this page. However, none of those suggestions have worked. Due to a disability, I have a wireless network with a Macbook Pro and iPad II attached to it. My Macbook is in a cabinet, and I use a big screen and wireless keyboard to access it. When I tried to access the apple help, with all this information, I was informed that in order to fix this problem, I would need to use my MacBook Pro. That I needed to put everything together hardwired in order to fix this problem. Being disabled this was no easy feat, and it took me a while but I did it. By the end of the call, nothing was resolved, and I was told I needed to take it into an authorized apple store to fix it. I guess they missed the entire part of being disabled and not being able to get around freely. Actually they missed everything on this support call....

Still trying to figure this out.... APPLE YOU WERE OF NO HELP TO ME. You failed me and countless others since you are not doing anything to correct this problem within your software and hardware.

Sorry IF this hurts your feeling..... but try living with this issue and getting let down everyday when it refreshes in the middle of a page or video.

the first time you return to a tab, that was open before you changed the setting, it will reload again but subsequently it won't.

edit: I spoke too soon! You're right, it doesn't work for me either!

Nope didn't work