I dealt with this by switching to mosh which made sense anyways since, when I did use an iPad + terminal a lot, I was traveling a lot and consequently changing

I dealt with this by switching to mosh which made sense anyways since, when I did use an iPad + terminal a lot, I was traveling a lot and consequently changing networks regularly. Conveniently, this also survives rebooting the device and OS upgrades (minor only? I think it survived the last major OS update as well).