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Title: Complaints Mounting About iOS 13.2 Being 'More Aggressive at Killing Background Apps and Tasks' Post by: HCK on November 05, 2019, 04:05:08 pm Complaints Mounting About iOS 13.2 Being 'More Aggressive at Killing Background Apps and Tasks'
A growing number of iPhone and iPad users have complained about poor RAM management on iOS 13 and iPadOS 13, leading to apps like Safari, YouTube, and Overcast reloading more frequently upon being reopened. We've lightly edited some of the comments to correct things like capitalization. <img src="(http://cdn.macrumors.com/article-new/2019/10/ios-13-ipados-13-800x488.jpg)" alt="" width="800" height="488" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-716591" /> MacRumors forum member Rogifan (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/memory-management-in-ios-13-sucks.2203988/): I was watching a video in YouTube on my iPhone 11 Pro. I pause the video to respond to a text message. I was in iMessage for less than one minute. When I returned to YouTube it reloaded the app and I lost the video I was watching. I noticed this a lot on my iPad Pro too. Apps and Safari tabs reloading a lot more frequently than they did in iOS 12. Very annoying.MacRumors forum member Radon87000 (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ram-management-is-horrible-in-ipados-13-2.2208290/), using an iPad Pro on iPadOS 13.2: I was working on a spreadsheet in Excel and I switched to a YouTube video for like 10 mins or so and when I switched back, the app was no longer in memory. Not just that, it also flushed all Safari tabs out of memory too. None of the games are staying in memory after 20 mins.MacRumors forum member HappyDude20 (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/why-do-apps-refresh-more-frequently-in-ios-13.2207878/): iOS 12 was perfect and [I] miss it for the main reason that any time I use the app switcher to go back to my previous app such as Safari or Instagram or Facebook or anything really, the app refreshes. Back in iOS 12 I could go back [to] multiple app I'm used to the camera purging all open apps from memory on my iPhone X, but iOS 13.2 goes above and beyond in killing background tasks. Earlier today, I was switching between a thread in Messages and a recipe in Safari and each app entirely refreshed every time I foregrounded it. This happens all the time throughout the system in iOS 13: Safari can't keep even a single tab open in the background, every app boots from scratch, and using iOS feels like it has regressed to the pre-multitasking days.On his blog, developer Michael Tsai has rounded up similar complaints (https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/10/30/ios-13-2-killing-background-apps-more/) on Twitter. Marco Arment: I've noticed this since the first 13.2 betas, and Overcast users keep reporting it as well: background apps seem to be getting killed MUCH more aggressively than before.Christopher Stephens: Every single app on my iPhone 7 iOS 13.2 gets killed every time I close. No backgrounding. And each tab on Safari when I move to a new one. So frustratingCabel Sasser: This really affected Prompt. Extremely annoying to lose SSH connections when switch apps.More complaints are found in this Twitter thread (https://twitter.com/DetroitBORG/status/1186720788759633920), in this Reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/dpnc68/pixel_envy_ios_132_is_more_aggressive_at_killing/), in the Apple Support Communities (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250797686), and elsewhere on the web. <center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Same. I was writing an email, swiped to Safari and then went back and the entire thing was gone</p>— Austin Evans (@austinnotduncan) October 23, 2019 (https://twitter.com/austinnotduncan/status/1186844814429437952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></center> Affected users are hoping this issue can be resolved in a future software update. We've reached out to Apple for comment. <div class="linkback">Related Roundups: iOS 13 (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/ios-13/), iPadOS (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/ipados/)</div> This article, "Complaints Mounting About iOS 13.2 Being 'More Aggressive at Killing Background Apps and Tasks' (https://www.macrumors.com/2019/10/31/ios-13-2-safari-refreshing-poor-ram-management/)" first appeared on MacRumors.com (https://www.macrumors.com) Discuss this article (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/complaints-mounting-about-ios-13-2-being-more-aggressive-at-killing-background-apps-and-tasks.2208590/) in our forums <div class="feedflare"> <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img> (http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=NrFzorDq-6Y:z0mShk61FMI:yIl2AUoC8zA) <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=6W8y8wAjSf4" border="0"></img> (http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=NrFzorDq-6Y:z0mShk61FMI:6W8y8wAjSf4) <img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img> (http://feeds.macrumors.com/~ff/MacRumors-Front?a=NrFzorDq-6Y:z0mShk61FMI:qj6IDK7rITs) </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MacRumors-Front/~4/NrFzorDq-6Y" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> Source: Complaints Mounting About iOS 13.2 Being 'More Aggressive at Killing Background Apps and Tasks' (https://www.macrumors.com/2019/10/31/ios-13-2-safari-refreshing-poor-ram-management/) |