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> Every implementation I have ever seen of this concept has correctly avoided dropping tabs with dirty state in text boxes Have you used iOS Safari? I use it b

> Every implementation I have ever seen of this concept has correctly avoided dropping tabs with dirty state in text boxes Have you used iOS Safari? I use it because of private relay and extensions (I’ve written a few for myself that “clean up” websites I frequent). However, the dropping is atrocious. Because my phone is 4 years old it can barely keep 1 tab in memory. Sometimes the tab is even dropped even if I simply lock my phone and come back to it a few hours later without even opening any other apps. All state is lost. Worse, as I exclusively use private mode, when the tab is dropped the cookies are dropped too. So I can’t even stay logged in to anything. It’s a terrible experience.

blowski 4y ago
My phone is a 4 year old iPhone SE and I’m writing on it now in private mode. I honestly don’t have the same experience as you, it mostly works fine.
- shortcake27 4y ago
  Yeah there could be something else going on. Apps constantly reload too; the other day I had an app open, locked the phone, unlocked it 5 minutes later and the app completely reloaded. This happens all the time with loads of different apps. The battery health is quite low so maybe it gets more aggressive in killing things off? We'll probably never know.
- bangonkeyboard 4y ago
  My experience matches shortcake27's. For instance, I've had a recipe loaded up in a tab, gone off to mix ingredients, and unlocked the iPhone for the next step only to see the page reload.
saurik 4y ago
Oh, yeah. That one sucks. But I didn't actually consider it to be in the same category of feature as Apple throws away entire processes and doesn't seem to give a shit, and that's kind of the underlying defense of losing your tab state, as far as I can tell. I meant on desktop browsers.
jbverschoor 4y ago
perhaps disable background app refresh except for a few apps. It’s a huge battery drain, and might allow some apps to eat away your memory during the update/refresh

blowski 4y ago

My phone is a 4 year old iPhone SE and I’m writing on it now in private mode. I honestly don’t have the same experience as you, it mostly works fine.

shortcake27 4y ago
Yeah there could be something else going on. Apps constantly reload too; the other day I had an app open, locked the phone, unlocked it 5 minutes later and the app completely reloaded. This happens all the time with loads of different apps. The battery health is quite low so maybe it gets more aggressive in killing things off? We'll probably never know.
bangonkeyboard 4y ago
My experience matches shortcake27's. For instance, I've had a recipe loaded up in a tab, gone off to mix ingredients, and unlocked the iPhone for the next step only to see the page reload.

saurik 4y ago

Oh, yeah. That one sucks. But I didn't actually consider it to be in the same category of feature as Apple throws away entire processes and doesn't seem to give a shit, and that's kind of the underlying defense of losing your tab state, as far as I can tell. I meant on desktop browsers.

jbverschoor 4y ago

perhaps disable background app refresh except for a few apps. It’s a huge battery drain, and might allow some apps to eat away your memory during the update/refresh