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nquinn

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Jun 25, 2020
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Can anyone confirm I'm not crazy, or help me better understand what's going on?

A number of times I'll be in Safari (ios14 now, but prob also ios15), and will be browsing an active window.

I leave safari via home button to multi-task to something else, but when I return I'm dropped into a completely different website/safari page.

Additionally, when I try to hit the bottom-right 'browse open tabs' button (the 2 little cards), my most recent page is nowhere to be seen. It's not at the top or bottom. I believe it ends up buried in the middle of the stack, where I might have 50 old pages/cards in that stack.

Pain point: It's impossible to find my most recent/active web page. Guidance is generally to NOT close past safari windows because they don't take up active memory and can improve caching.

Expected: Most recently use page would be resurfaced when I return to safari or at least be at the bottom of the stack

Hypothesis: Maybe when I create a new tab/page in safari, if the same URL previously existed in the stack, it is re-using that old one? And then when I leave and return it keeps the index of the old tab rather than bumping up the last used date to put it at the top/bottom of the stack?

This is infurating. Confirmed it's not something around private vs non-private browsing.
 
This may be unrelated but on iPadOS 13 my tabs would often get shuffled around when leaving and returning to a Safari window. It appeared to occur when memory management caused the tabs to be refreshed, which can literally be 3 seconds switching between another app and back.
 
Hmm, could be, but I would think that it would be smart enough to not flush the most recent!
 
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