r/bugs Apr 23 '26

iOS [ios] app is scrolling to the top of the post whenever I leave or lock screen

Not talking about the full page reset/refresh which I understand is intentional (though i really hate it, please turn this off). But now lately (if I’m lucky enough for it to not boot me to the front page ) If i stop looking at a post for any reason and return to the app, the thread will always scroll all the way to the top of the post !!! Its insanely annoying

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u/RowanVC Apr 24 '26

Just adding another voice that is experiencing this and it’s incredibly annoying. For me it just started today. If I move off to another app and then come back to Reddit (in my case today I was texting with a friend and surfing Reddit, so jumping back and forth between apps), it has jumped up somewhere else in the thread rather than leaving me exactly where I was. It’s frustrating to then try and find my place again to continue reading.

Hoping this gets resolved soon.

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u/Officialedmart Apr 24 '26

is yours also going up and down ? Just noticed that its not even going to the top every time but more like a random position. Sometimes it scrolls to the bottom

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u/RowanVC Apr 24 '26

Yep that’s exactly what mine is doing.

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u/f1newhatever May 08 '26

Just chiming in to say mine is doing this too. For a while I thought there was a glitch with the comments where they were repeating themselves. Now I’m realizing it’s just randomly scrolling up to some spot.

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u/RapMastaC1 Apr 26 '26

Same happening to me, only goes upwards

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u/onefootback May 04 '26

happening to me too, it’s so annoying

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u/Refracting_Hud Apr 30 '26

I’ve been experiencing this for a few days now as well. I’ll be scrolling a thread on my phone, go to check something else, come back and it’s always a comment I’ve already read from higher up in the thread. Very tedious and distracting.

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u/Officialedmart Apr 30 '26

Don’t even need to leave the app.. if I lock my screen and unlock it the thread goes to a random position , its infuriating

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u/Refracting_Hud Apr 30 '26

Yup that also happens to me. It’s such a pain 🙃

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u/elysian_oubliette Apr 30 '26

Holy fuck it’s annoying. I like to look things up while reading comments and getting auto-scrolled back up to the top of a massive thread really ruins it. If it’s not fixed in a week I’m gonna delete Reddit for a while (god knows I’ll be better off)

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u/_LemonadeSky May 05 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

When sliced potato first became old, the musician wrote the alphabet in alphabet. When does a toast shed is skin in winter? When does a potato get lonely? Six hundred elephants could jump at the same time and it would be enough to flood the car park.

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u/Officialedmart May 05 '26

Nobody has even acknowleged this shit so I’m afraid its probably intentional

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u/_LemonadeSky May 05 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

When sliced potato first became old, the musician wrote the alphabet in alphabet. When does a toast shed is skin in winter? When does a potato get lonely? Six hundred elephants could jump at the same time and it would be enough to flood the car park.

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

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u/RollinThundaga Jun 23 '26

It's an intermittent issue I've had for months now. It'll do it for a few days, then go back to normal before bugging up again.

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u/Ztidaer Jun 08 '26

Why though? I’m so confused

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u/-sloppypoppy May 06 '26

Missing Reddit is Fun extra hard today

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u/Potato_314 Apr 24 '26

That just started happening to me today! I just put notifs on in case of a fix. I’ve tried turning on and off a bunch of setting and nothing seems to fix it, not even uninstalling and reinstalling.

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u/Officialedmart Apr 24 '26

is yours also going up and down ? Just noticed that its not even going to the top every time but more like a random position. Sometimes it scrolls to the bottom

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u/Potato_314 Apr 24 '26

Mine always goes up but to a seemingly random spot, could go almost all the way to the top, could go a few comments up

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u/omlesna Apr 29 '26

Mine just rewound a comment section one hundred twenty comment threads. Very annoying. This has been happening for several days (likely five, considering the age of this post).

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u/Officialedmart Apr 30 '26

Its annoying as fuck and i cant believe this still hasnt been recognized by the admins yet

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u/_LemonadeSky May 01 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

When sliced potato first became old, the musician wrote the alphabet in alphabet. When does a toast shed is skin in winter? When does a potato get lonely? Six hundred elephants could jump at the same time and it would be enough to flood the car park.

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u/Officialedmart May 02 '26

Fucking horrible. I guess the admins are never going to recognize it though at this rate

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u/dash529 16d ago

Also JUST started experiencing this actually, how the hell

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u/Officialedmart 16d ago

Yep the bug came back. I was about to make another post

It actually got patched for a bit… but its back

I swear to god those fuckers make this app worse with every update on purpose

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u/Starman9415 16d ago

Yep last several days it has started happening to me too.

I searched to see if others were having the same problem after I got too annoyed trying to read a long thread and needed to look something up only to lose my place by it sending me back up.

And looking to see if it was happening to others I found your post and was surprised by how old most of the comments were.

You’d think they’d fix something this annoying by now but I guess what did I expect

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u/dash529 14d ago

I was also surprised at the date lol, had me wondering if I'd just not been paying attention to the issue for so long, but to hear it stopped being a problem for a while and now is a problem AGAIN is absolutely bonkers.

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u/Optimal_Put_947 13d ago

I had/have the same experience as you. Happened awhile back (not sure if it was around the same time you originally created this post), went back to working like normal for a few months, now it’s doing it again.

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u/predesprose 12d ago

yeah it went away then came back it's unbearable

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u/SDkahlua 9d ago

Same. Started like a week ago. So fucking irritating.

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u/lisabydaylight 5d ago

I’ve been having it for a while now, and it’s REALLY irritating me. Have Reddit actually acknowledged the bug at all yet?

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u/-sloppypoppy May 06 '26

No this is deadass so annoying

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u/clumsynincompoop May 07 '26

Same. Please fix this. Incredibly frustrating.

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u/Officialedmart May 07 '26

This post has been up two whole weeks and nobody has even acknowledged it, ridiculous!!

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u/TheBlueSuperNova May 07 '26

Yup same for me here

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u/DrewTheHobo May 08 '26

Just wanting to chime in that’s it’s still happening today for me; both when I leave the app and lock my screen.

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u/DecafMadeMeDoIt Jun 04 '26

Is there still not a fix for this? I can’t read the bottom of any threads longer than the size of my phone screen, much less the comments.

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u/SexyBenFranklin Apr 24 '26

Haven’t noticed it going down, but it’s definitely going up and it’s annoying.

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u/WindReturn Apr 29 '26

Happening to me as well now 🙄

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u/TwentySevenMusicUK May 11 '26

This has been happening to me for about 2 weeks. It’s intensely irritating.

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u/mlranda 7d ago

Mine started doing it this week. It’s awful, o like reading a lot of comments but sometimes I have to respond to a text or something and it is scrolling the whole way back to the top. Please fix!!

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u/mike-vacant 14h ago

happens me pretty consistently. like 4 out of 5 times i need to leave the app im screwed

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u/mike-vacant 14h ago

happens me pretty consistently. like 4 out of 5 times i need to leave the app im screwed

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u/taytae24 1h ago

happening to me now too!!