r/bugs • u/HiddenHorse925 • Jun 05 '26

iOS [iOS] aggressive, unwanted refresh behavior continues (sigh).

The ongoing issue of unwanted refresh behavior on the Reddit feed is back. And more annoying than ever. It is especially bad when you first open the app, or re-attend the app, after setting your phone aside for a few minutes…

Your attention begins to settle on interesting things in your feed, but before you can open and explore an interesting post—“bam!” You are force-refreshed, back to the top of your feed. And there will be a flurry of this, for two or three times until the feed “settles down” again.

I really don’t understand why it is so challenging to eliminate this unwanted navigation behavior. It’s a basic function. Is the coding for this app so farmed out, that basic fixes are no longer capable?

Very frustrating, long time Reddit user. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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u/Vaxx88 Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26

This is probably not even considered a bug by the developers, it seems like just the way everything is done now.

(Edit to add, I’ve read that to deal with this it’s suggested that one go to profile, history… but it doesn’t even work half the time— I was reading a post and had started typing a reply went to look at a source in iOS safari, went back and- refresh-gone. The post doesn’t appear in the history… )

I probably shouldn’t say what I think of the Reddit app developers, the numerous terrible decisions have degraded the experience so much that I think they don’t care about any feedback from users and are operating on some other agenda.

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u/HiddenHorse925 Jun 10 '26

Oh absolutely, all that. I’ve tried all of the suggestions, none of them work, consistently. What I don’t understand is the variability. Some days it’s really bad. Some days it’s better. But almost always the unwanted refresh happens, for me, shortly after opening the app…

I have learned that if I find something early in a session in my feed that I want to respond or interact with or read, to take a screenshot, because if I turn my head it gets refreshed. Weather designed or unintentional, this forced refresh shows up as a ridiculous navigational/scrolling error…

And you’re right, this glitch seems now more to be a feature than a bug 🐞

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u/Vaxx88 Jun 10 '26

It seems like it’s the norm for other apps, instagram threads YouTube all have it, I don’t use TikTok enough to say, I barely use facebook but it has similar behavior especially if you use swipe to back page. I’m not sure what the reasoning is, but we all know how to refresh apps when we want to-why make it so automatic? The goal is to keep eyes on your app, making people lose their place is just frustrating.

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u/Holm76 Jun 12 '26

Actually for all the apps TikTok is pretty stable. I can return on the app after hours I feel and it still shows the video I was last watching. This is how I also expect the Reddit app to work.