Don't kill my app

Re:Don't kill my app by osener on Thursday November 23, 2023 @01:08AM (#38389878)

This somehow seems to have become an inevitable reality of mobile phones. I had to upgrade from my iPhone 7 because it had essentially become a “single-process OS” where even switching to Google Translate to help me compose a message would have the messaging app killed in the background.

And now I am experiencing similar issues, although not as severely yet, with my iPhone 12 Pro Max. Restarting the phone seems to help but there seems to be some battery and/or memory pressure that causes iOS to kill the non-active apps.

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Re:Don't kill my app by SwiftyBug on Thursday November 23, 2023 @04:13AM (#38390931)

I just replaced my iPhone 7 for the 13. I didn't notice a behaviour like what you described. Except for the Maps app while I had energy saver mode on.

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Re:Don't kill my app by erlendellingsen on Thursday November 23, 2023 @01:11AM (#38389894)

Never experienced anything remotely similar as you described with either my iPhone X when I had that, or my current iPhone 12 Pro..

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Re:Don't kill my app by sooheon on Thursday November 23, 2023 @01:14AM (#38389911)

Happened to me many times browsing restaurants / using a map during recent trip with 13 mini. Sucks to suffer a map reload when you're on roaming data with few bars.

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Re:Don't kill my app by hot_gril on Thursday November 23, 2023 @02:54AM (#38390484)

Even my iPhone 6S doesn't exhibit this behavior.

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Re:Don't kill my app by kenferry on Thursday November 23, 2023 @01:43AM (#38390067)

iOS actually kills apps in the background FAR less than it used to. If your apps are not preserving state across being killed, it’s because they’re not doing the work to make sure the app death is transparent. Perhaps they’re more tempted to forego the work because it’s somewhat _less_ essential than it used to be.

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