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> I wish my safari tabs didn't attempt to reload at the most inopportune times This is my absolute #1 wish for my phone. I want to load up 30 news tabs before
by crazygringo 2y ago
> I wish my safari tabs didn't attempt to reload at the most inopportune times
This is my absolute #1 wish for my phone.
I want to load up 30 news tabs before I hop on the subway and just have them all stay loaded, instead of the most recent 4 staying loaded, while any others refresh (and fail) if I switch back to them.
I absolutely want all of my tabs to have the page state cached in storage whenever I leave them and they're done loading. With the scroll position too, as I'll often be interrupted halfway through reading a long story. I don't want them to be stored ephemerally in memory.
Surely it can't be so impossible to "pickle" the state of the page and then unpickle? I can totally accept it not surviving every app upgrade too. Just let me load up stories on the subway platform and read them all on my underground commute.
- callalex 2y agoThe “reading list” feature in safari saves pages for offline viewing.
- paperplatter 2y agoShould be theoretically possible via swap. Like, my MacBook can have a thousand browser tabs open without reloading any of them, and I'm sure it doesn't all sit in physical RAM. Is your phone low on storage, or are iPhones just less swappy?
- crazygringo 2y agoI don't think iPhones swap at all. They just purge the oldest-used app(s) when they need more memory. Unlike on a Mac, applications don't stay open in the background. With some exceptions for specific authorized background processes.
- paperplatter 2y agoRight, I know at least 3P apps get the "memory warning" and have specific rules about background execution, but wasn't sure about Safari since it's special.