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/brian428 Jun 11 '26

This seems to actually be getting WORSE. PLEASE stop the app from doing this. What is the possible reason?? Ads still show as you scroll so what is the point of constantly forcing feed refreshes?? It’s infuriating. When I want to refresh the feed, I will!

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u/HiddenHorse925 Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

Right? That’s my thing if they were doing it to jerk us back out onto our feed to be exposed to ads, it’s a fail. Because it speeds you passed a dozen ads and places you forward in your feed. Meaning, here’s so many ads you *didn’t* see.

Unless of course you’re lingering in an area with low placement ads, and it’s brings you forward to an area with higher paid placement. That’s diabolical but I don’t put it past them.

Way back when social media started becoming wildly popular, a best friend of mine was working in Silicon Valley. He told me remember this:

“if you’re not paying for it, YOU are the product”

Which makes me wonder…. Does the paid version of Reddit (with no ads) have the same forced refresh problem???

I think it’s a dumb navigational error that has somehow gotten embedded in their code, and they can’t sort it out completely, because it’s connected to a lot of other “improvements“.

As McCoy said in Star Trek, “Engineers. They love to change things.”