Aggressive memory management back in iOS 14.4.2

[minimo3]

I updated yesterday because well there’s not much choice if you want to prevent the WebKit vulnerability. One side effect is a return of the aggressive app unloading of early iOS 14 versions. For example:

• Apple Music get unloaded about once an hour and you lose the playlist you’re playing
• Safari refreshes if you open 2-3 apps and then come back
• Outlook is the most affected, it refreshes/reloads the app if you so much as switch away to safari and come back
• this is a with a 4GB RAM iPhone.

(I don’t use any large memory hungry apps like photo editors, games, etc. it’s just email, messages, news, feed readers, music)

 

[apparatchik]

I updated yesterday because well there’s not much choice if you want to prevent the WebKit vulnerability. One side effect is a return of the aggressive app unloading of early iOS 14 versions. For example:

• Apple Music get unloaded about once an hour and you lose the playlist you’re playing
• Safari refreshes if you open 2-3 apps and then come back
• Outlook is the most affected, it refreshes/reloads the app if you so much as switch away to safari and come back
• this is a with a 4GB RAM iPhone.

(I don’t use any large memory hungry apps like photo editors, games, etc. it’s just email, messages, news, feed readers, music)

Very worrisome, can someone with an iPad on 14.4.2 try this? the most affectation will again be with the iPad, as the multitasking gets quite limited, not that its acceptable on iPhones either...

 

[cola79]

Very worrisome, can someone with an iPad on 14.4.2 try this? the most affectation will again be with the iPad, as the multitasking gets quite limited, not that its acceptable on iPhones either...

I can confirm that for Safari on my iPad.

 

[JonaM]

Haven't noticed any change in behaviour for me

 

[minimo3]

I’ve managed to eliminate the frequent unloading of apps. After a couple of hard resets (vol up, vol down, hold down power button) it seems to be ok now.

At this point in its lifecycle enough entropy (regressions) has set into the OS that it needs a full shut down and restart every month or so anyway.