Choose your color scheme:
The Vette Barn  
 
Go Back   The Vette Barn > Off Topic/Babes/Other > Off Topic

Off Topic Off Topic - General non-Corvette related discussion.

User Tag List

Reply
 
Share Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 11-01-2019, 8:26am   #1
Mike Mercury
Chief Meat Gazer
Charter Member
Barn Stall Owner #98
Barn Raising II,III,IV
Points: 157,560, Level: 100
Activity: 20.9%
 
Mike Mercury's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Ohio
Posts: 50,745
Thanks: 23,247
Thanked 33,735 Times in 12,291 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $5135124
Default iOS 13 is killing background apps more frequently

It may be a memory management issue

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/31/...ground-refresh

Apple’s iOS 13 has had a rocky start since its mid-September launch, with it being among the most buggy Apple software releases in recent memory. Now, iPhone owners are complaining of yet another issue that may be bug-related.

As compiled by MacRumors, numerous iOS 13 users say the OS is killing apps in the background far too aggressively in what appears to be a memory management issue. That has resulted in some users losing progress in apps after switching to another that may be more memory intensive, like the camera or iMessage, even for just a few seconds. You can read a long list of testimonials over at MacRumors. But the takeaway is that the iPhone should be getting better at this, not worse, due to superior components and software optimizations.

Other popular app makers and software developers have chimed in as well:

I’ve noticed this since the first 13.2 betas, and Overcast users keep reporting it as well: background apps seem to be getting killed MUCH more aggressively than before.

(Especially on the iPhone 11 if you use the camera, presumably because it needs so much RAM for processing.)


It’s not clear if this is a bug in iOS 13 or perhaps something related to the most recent version of the OS, iOS 13.2. It could also have something to do with how the software operates on older iPhones, but there have been some reports that say the RAM management issues are persisting even on iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro models as well as on the iPad Pro. That could be due to how memory-intensive the new camera system is, especially on the Pro devices where there are more computational photography elements at play and the extra camera lens.

The biggest problem with poor RAM management is that you might lose progress in an app while you’re in the middle of a task, like writing an email in Outlook or watching a YouTube video. Some users report losing entire drafts of emails just because they switched away to Spotify or the camera, while some users say iOS is effectively forgetting where in a YouTube video they were because the app is rebooting in the background to manage the shifting RAM loads.

It’s hard to say what exactly the culprit may be, and perhaps Apple will address this in a future update. Designer and developer Nick Heer, writing on his blog yesterday, says this is not a major issue like the recent HomePod bricking problem, but it is an embarrassing one:

I’m used to the camera purging all open apps from memory on my iPhone X, but iOS 13.2 goes above and beyond in killing background tasks. Earlier today, I was switching between a thread in Messages and a recipe in Safari and each app entirely refreshed every time I foregrounded it. This happens all the time throughout the system in iOS 13: Safari can’t keep even a single tab open in the background, every app boots from scratch, and using iOS feels like it has regressed to the pre-multitasking days. As bugs go, this is isn’t a catastrophic one, but it absolutely should be the highest of priorities to fix it. It’s embarrassing that all of the hard work put into making animations and app launching feel smooth is squandered by mismanaged multitasking.





Mike Mercury is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 11-01-2019, 11:17am   #2
Stangkiller
Charter Member
Barn Stall Owner #5
Barn Raising I,II,III,IV
NCM Supporter '11,'12,'13,'14,'16,'17,'19,'20,'21
Bantayan Kids '13
Points: 50,765, Level: 100
Activity: 2.2%
 
Stangkiller's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Republic of Texas
Posts: 18,810
Thanks: 6,103
Thanked 5,435 Times in 2,934 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $2173478
Default

Safari is practically unusable with ios13, and email has been buggy too.
Stangkiller is online now   Reply With Quote
Old 11-01-2019, 12:53pm   #3
Cybercowboy
2016 Election Expert
Barn Stall Owner #64
Points: 50,697, Level: 100
Activity: 34.6%
 
Cybercowboy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Joplin, MO
Posts: 18,039
Thanks: 999
Thanked 10,155 Times in 4,727 Posts
Gameroom Barn Bucks: $11380138
Default

I haven't noticed the camera killing any open apps so far. I just checked my iPhone X and I had the camera, photos, messages, GMail, Safari, Chrome, clock, calender, WeatherBug, SimpliSafe, calculator, Hangouts Chat, and phone apps running and have been for days and days. But I don't run the beta software, I'm still on 13.1.3.
Cybercowboy is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

The Vette Barn > Off Topic/Babes/Other > Off Topic


Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -5. The time now is 9:20pm.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
User Alert System provided by Advanced User Tagging (Pro) - vBulletin Mods & Addons Copyright © 2024 DragonByte Technologies Ltd.
Copyright © 2009 - 2024 The Vette Barn


Support the Barn:
 
Download the Mobile App;
 
Follow us on Facebook:

Become a Stall Owner

 

Apple iOS App        Google Android App

 

Visit our Facebook page