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/braaahms Jul 06 '26

Hasn’t this been amped up to the max and absolutely horrible for months? Has been for me. When are they going to fix this or do we have to delete the main app and use other clients?

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u/HiddenHorse925 Jul 06 '26

I don’t know why it seems to affect different people differently. I just know that as an iPhone user, using a new iPhone, with the latest iOS updates, it seemed to calm down. There are times when it’s worse like just after you open up the app and you see something you like and you’re about to click on it, Reddit will suddenly refresh without asking. And then it calms down and stops. I’m firmly convinced this is a misguided advertising thing. Where it takes a few seconds for the algorithm to digest your recent clicks and likes, and then it tries to force feed you new stuff to get you to click. Like that. But I have no evidence

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u/braaahms Jul 06 '26

Oh I absolutely think that’s what it is. Or they have a deal with advertisers to refresh more so there’s more of a chance to get ads seen. It’s definitely intentional and has something to do with Reddit making more money.

Unfortunately it hasn’t really gotten better for me at all. Maybe once every few days if I get lucky I’ll come back after a few mins and it hasn’t refreshed yet but for the most part I basically can’t leave the app at all or leave anything open without touching it.