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Voyager now refreshes when leaving the app (hilariouschaos.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey all,

I upgraded to iOS 18 yesterday, so wondering if this is possibly due to that or something on the Voyager app’s side.

I’ve noticed today that if I’m on my profile’s page, or viewing a specific post, or browsing a specific community, and then I leave the Voyager app for a time to go to another app or the iPhone’s “desktop” and then come back to Voyager, Voyager will do a refresh and then go to the main page, which I have set to show All. It also refreshes the All feed whereas before it would stay where I left it when browsing All.

Is this a new update or did iOS 18 implement something that is causing this? Anything that can be done to not allow this to happen?

Thank you!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It’s been refreshing way before iOS 18. I haven’t updated, although I am using the TestFlight version.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Happens on my iOS17 as well. Unless I am in a post I believe but also not always..?

It's a bit annoying.