As far as I know, iOS is and was always bad at background tasks, like uploading stuff on various sites/apps (like Instagram story, telegram file, etc). Now, I don't know why it changed do badly with iOS 18 but I'm sure is apple's fault with their system
The behaviour is intended as far as I understand Apple’s iOS philosophy. This is to prevent bad coded apps from consuming too many recourses like RAM and battery. I guess this is also a reason why linux phones have such shorter battery life compared to android/iOS devices.
I'm having the same issue on Android using GrapheneOS. Anytime I leave the app and come back it refreshes, doesn't happen with my other open apps.
It happens* because your OS is dumping the app from active memory to run other apps and when fetching the app again, the internal consistency is lost and the app reloads to avoid data corruption.
*Likely. iOS is closed source so I can’t be sure, but that’s the most likely explanation given the architecture.
It can happen on any iOS version, but newer versions likely consume more memory and this happens more often.
It’s been refreshing way before iOS 18. I haven’t updated, although I am using the TestFlight version.
Happens on my iOS17 as well. Unless I am in a post I believe but also not always..?
It's a bit annoying.
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