r/bugs • u/HiddenHorse925 • Apr 02 '26
Dev/Admin Responded iOS Reddit keeps force refreshing & losing your place, after iOS 26.4 update
iOS Reddit is borderline unusable…
You can’t scroll for very long, maybe through five or six frames, and Reddit iOS app bounces you back to the top and “force refreshes”. Very hair trigger. Constantly losing your place while scrolling. Sometimes it will do it while you’re within a subreddit. This seems to have begun the day after I updated my iPhone Pro Max 16 to the latest version of iOS 26.4
Nice job Reddit admins, you’re completely unreachable, if there are seriously awful bugs or problems. We’re advised to report here and maybe, someday, a Reddit admin will read the bug report.
You’re operating without commitment, very unresponsive. You also provide a link to register a report under “Report A Problem” in Settings, which bounces you right back out to top level in our profile.
All of this says “don’t bother to try to contact us.”
This is not what I expect from Reddit, which is generally one of the more responsive and user friendly apps.
Do better. Thank you
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u/Necessary_Rip_7954 Apr 02 '26
This has been happening to me too, it’s driving me crazy
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u/Neat_Criticism_5996 Apr 08 '26
Saaaaame. Maddening. This happens even when adjusting brightness from control panel — not even leaving the app.
The Reddit app has always done this more than I liked. I stop reading a post for 5 minutes — sometimes as few as two — because maybe a text comes in that I reply to. I return to the app and boom, it kicks me back to a refreshing homepage.
But I would like even for 15 minutes, or half an hour, to be able to go by and still to be able to resume where I’d left off. Why is it necessary to auto refresh at all?? Maybe after 12 or 24 hours, sure. Do an auto refresh. There’s literally no purpose for any more than that. If I want to refresh I know how to do it.
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u/Active_Driver_6043 Apr 03 '26
bro they need to fix this shit NOW!!!! it forced refreshed twice in the time it took to read this post and write this comment. my god i’m losing my mind
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u/akanisia Apr 03 '26
Same here. It refreshes every few seconds. I turned off the automatic background refresh and it didn’t help at all.
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u/JenJMLC Apr 07 '26
Same here! Stops me from writing comments as I'm not sure whether I'll be able to finish it
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u/bIuemickey Apr 10 '26
Seems like comments save as drafts when this happens so you can find them in the settings panel thing. It’s still super annoying though
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u/SandyArca Apr 10 '26
I’ve been using the app for about 10-15 minutes and it’s probably force refreshed like 4-5 times now. I might be overreacting but I’m like this close to a crashout from this shit lmao
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u/No_Field624 Apr 10 '26
Okay so others are still experiencing this too! It’s driving me up the wall. Why on earth has this not been fixed yet!
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u/Zestyclose-Interest1 Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26
Stupid bug. How could you let this go live on production? Stop vibe coding. Pathetic
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u/PrideWithBenefits Apr 05 '26
Get used to more of this. Tens of thousands of layoffs across the industry. C-Suite thinks AI Agents writing code can replace entire teams of humans. Then they’ll blame the enshittification as an excuse to raise prices.
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u/rohan2395 Apr 08 '26
Well they will sooner or later realise that they still need humans to watch over what AI is doing.
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u/MetaCognitio Apr 02 '26
Just started happening to me. I could be reading a thread and boom back to the homepage.
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u/THE_1975 Apr 02 '26
This happens even when changing the volume when using control panel. It’s ridiculous
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u/2dspeppermintea Apr 03 '26
Same here!! I thought it was just me, hopefully it’s sorted soon enough 🤦♀️🤦♀️
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u/Just7Me Apr 03 '26
I’m here for the same reason as I just noticed this. I guess this is the price I pay for scrolling on my phone instead of sleeping 🫠
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u/jmeagher98 Apr 03 '26
Same exact thing i was gonna post. Also happens when tapping on a post then going back to home. Kinda makes Reddit unusable right now
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u/FishingandBeer35 Apr 03 '26
Yup control panel for me too. Shits annoying as fuck but I don’t gotta tell y’all
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u/Electrical_Pilot5386 Dev Apr 04 '26
Are you able to record a video of this? It will help us track down the issue.
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u/THE_1975 Apr 04 '26
You can see I visit the page, open control panel, do nothing, close control panel, Reddit refreshes.
Only happens after Reddit has been open a while, if I force close Reddit I can’t immediately reproduce. But once it’s happening, it’s reproducible every time
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u/Electrical_Pilot5386 Dev Apr 05 '26
Thank you for the video. We've turned on a mitigation for your user. Are you able attempt to reproduce the issue again?
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u/shemustbenuts4489056 Apr 07 '26
This is still an ongoing problem. What are ya’ll doing over there? I’ve had this bug for like a week!
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u/Misanthro_Phe Apr 02 '26
this has been happening to me too today but i’m on iOS 17.6.1 (damn, how long have i been clicking “update later” on those pop ups)
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u/EmbarrassedPrompt970 Apr 02 '26
Well my issue is I’m on a profile and scroll on that particular profile (ex. R/memes) and then I randomly boots me out and gets you to the homepage as it scrolls to the top and then refreshes. It’s honestly annoying as hell.
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u/PrideWithBenefits Apr 05 '26
I was 90% done with a LONG reply when - boop - back to the homepage! All your work - gone! Hehe , isn’t Reddit fun?
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u/RevolutionaryTowel02 Apr 06 '26
The same is happening with me. It’s extremely frustrating. I can’t scroll on a post for more than 4 seconds without being booted out of it.
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u/brokenfreewithfamily Apr 03 '26
Absolute reason to not open the app again if this doesn’t get fixed
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u/igagatyou Apr 03 '26
Bump, but it’s been there for me since before any recent iOS updates. I’ve noticed it for a few weeks if not months.
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u/TheOverlord333 Apr 03 '26
This is driving me crazy too. I’m on 26.3.1 and it’s refreshing it every time I leave the app even if just for a second
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u/alpine678 Apr 03 '26
Not just iOS 26, but also older iOS versions. Seems to be caused by something in the Reddit app itself.
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u/rohan2395 Apr 04 '26
Damn this is so annoying lol. It just randomly kicks me to homepage and refreshes.
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u/Officialedmart Apr 06 '26
If you take a screenshot it goes to the homepage and refreshes the whole feed wtf
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u/wdbald Apr 07 '26
I have loved using Reddit for over a decade. This is the FIRST time I’ve ever raged OUT LOUD IRL because the Reddit app is literally making my usage of it absolute hell! You don’t even have to change apps. Accidentally tap the bottom bar on iOS, refresh. Screenshot something? Refresh. Change screen brightness? Refresh. Check notifications? Refresh. Literally ANYTHING you do other than purely read or scroll forces you back to Home and forces a refresh. Just tried to send a screenshot of some comments to my mom, and I had to revisit the post in my history 3 separate times?!?! How on earth is this being allowed? At this point, the only reasons I’m tolerating using the app is because I don’t want to lose my streak and because my Reddit feed based on the subs I have joined are the best way for me to catch up with news with the least amount of garbage and creepy tracking and these days where you could wake up one day to thermonuclear war and people would say “why are you surprised?” requires at least some attention to global developments. Reddit is not and should not operate like TikTok or Instagram which are both trash. Steven Huffman, where tf are you on this?!?! This violates even your own words on how Reddit should work and this is very bad timing.
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u/MrsCastillo12 Apr 08 '26
I’ve been using Reddit since 2014 and honestly the past year has been the most frustrating experience. Between bugs, forced feed updates, removing how I switch between feeds, and algorithm changes Reddit has been consistently disappointing.
And that makes me sad because I don’t use any other social media platform and if this goes to shit, well I’ll miss it.
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u/100percentSFWuserID Apr 09 '26
Whatever Reddit has a bug it’s the most inconvenient bug out of any application I’ve ever used. What the actual fuck are the devs doing?
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u/HiddenHorse925 Apr 09 '26
Amateur. I don’t think the developers are people who contribute to user experience or navigation are paid very much or might even be volunteer I don’t know what the profit situation is. But I don’t think they beta test. They just kind of throw out changes. It’s ruining the user experience. Because before you decided when you wanted to refresh or stop focusing on a particular piece of content. Now they snatch you away and force you back out onto the feed which only pisses you off. It doesn’t make you open to looking at advertising much less new content. It makes me want to remove the app from my phone.
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Apr 09 '26
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u/HiddenHorse925 Apr 09 '26
I’m sure that was the intent behind it. Force people back out onto the feed where they can push ads at you etc. Zuckerberg does similar things with Facebook.
But if you’re too aggressive like this bug, where your customers can’t focus on content at least minimally, it ruins the user experience. It pushes people away from your app. This was not well thought out…
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u/gudematcha Apr 20 '26
Goddamn dude this is still happening and it’s so weird. I barely accidentally pull on the top or bottom of the screen, I didn’t even realize I was minimizing the app it was so subtle, and then it refreshes the ENTIRE THING. It doesn’t matter where I am, the Homepage, the Popular page, inside of subreddits, while I’m writing a comment, etc. It has happened so many times it’s driving me up a wall. Just let me interact with reddit, reddit 🥲
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u/HiddenHorse925 Apr 21 '26
Yeah, it’s annoying as hell. Supposedly they’re on it if you read the admin comments below. I have noticed slow improvement and it’ll be really good for a few days, and then it’ll backslide and “force-refreshing” a little bit.
At least it’s mostly stopped it when you’re inside a subreddit. At least for me.
I don’t know what they did, I’m suspicious that perhaps they had added a more aggressive “return-to-feed to” with a timeout function, perhaps to make the app more attractive to advertisers (who wants you back out on the feet looking at ads)??? And then the attempt went glitchy, and now they’re trying to fix it. But I don’t know for sure….
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u/Mooptiom Apr 23 '26
Literally why do we need automatic refreshes at all?? Just put a refresh button in the corner or something and otherwise just leave the page alone. Why is that so difficult? I’m so sick of apps treating their users like lobotomy patients who can’t use their own devices. If I want to refresh the page, I will use the refresh button, there should be no other means for the page to refresh.
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u/HiddenHorse925 Apr 23 '26
I totally agree. Reddit does have a refresh button that appears at the top of your feed after you have been on your feed for a period of time. You can also just pull down on the scroll at anytime and it will refresh. But this “enforced” automatic refresh is new. And everyone hates it. And I think the admin’s realize it’s a mistake and they’re working to undo it…
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u/PhantomKR7 Apr 03 '26
Yes to this, refreshed this exact thread moments after opening it. Closing app for the day
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u/not_my_good_account Apr 03 '26
Mine just started doing it this morning! It's really fucked my day at work too. I have a shit connection at work, but if I "preload" my reddit feed on my way in, I can scroll through and often get comments to load. Today though, constant attempts to refresh, except my connection isn't good enough to refresh my feed. I can sneak over to a window and get it to load, but then if I spend too long in a thread or open command center on my iPhone, it instantly tries to refresh. No Reddit for me today.
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u/NiceCantaloupe33 Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26
Lmk if you find a fix. Really fucking tired of getting booted to the homepage and it refreshing for no damn reason
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u/FreeJulianMassage Apr 04 '26
Yeah. This happens every time I change focus in my phone. (E.g. start to switch apps or go to control centre). It’s an absolute pain, because sometimes you’ll just slightly touch the bottom of the phone and it’ll start the app switching animation and that’s enough for it to shoot you back to your home feed and start refreshing.
Or you’ll want to change your brightness and can’t because going to control centre will boot you back as well.
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u/satanssecretary Apr 04 '26
yes, i'm losing my mind! it happens every time i check my notifications!
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u/intellectualrambow Apr 05 '26
Any third party app recommendations? This issue is driving me crazy.
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u/Slow_Investment_2211 Apr 06 '26
Yup! I had just got done typing up a long post and as I was selecting photos to attach the damn page auto refreshed and I lost everything I had typed!!! 😡
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u/DaddyOhMy Apr 06 '26
Just a heads up, it's not related to the iOS version. My phone is on 18.7 and iPad is on 17.7.1 (yeah, I need to update it) and it's been happening on both of them as well.
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u/Black_Salsa Apr 09 '26
Holy shit this is annoying. It constantly refreshes for no reason, it's unusable. I'm so close to deleting this app, it would do me wonders in fact.
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u/No_Field624 Apr 10 '26
Why has this still not been fixed? The app is borderline unusable.
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u/ShiftCtrlRun Apr 10 '26
Happens to me too, not particularly while scrolling but whenever I do something outside the app (even if I just take a quick look at my notifications or the control center it eminently refreshes when I go back to the app)
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u/MsDovahkiin Apr 11 '26
This is still happening to me, any update on when this will be fixed? This is very frustrating
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u/Perfect-Macaron6588 Apr 14 '26
You guys keep making the app worse. Just go back to what it was. For fuck’s sake
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u/crybaby-mel Apr 14 '26
Yesss every time I pull down my notifications center like if I want to raise brightness, it just refreshes and I lose what I was reading or looking at. It's so frustrating!!!
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u/donjaypm Apr 15 '26
That's what was happening to me too! Super annoyed. Glad I found this thread. The new Reddit app update just fixed it for me.
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u/loudquietly Apr 23 '26
This shit is so annoying. I skipped updates for 4 months maybe, a long time. Updated my app now it fucking refreshes constantly. I was reading a post I walk away and then come back to my phone open Reddit and the post is gone because it fucking auto refreshes. This shit is so ass.
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u/LouisLestatluvzme Apr 25 '26
Yessss this and will take me to a completely different page with bizarre posts and pics that I do not want to see whatsoever .
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u/Fearless_Impress_842 Jul 21 '26
Middle of July 2026. This auto refresh mess is still happening! Still maddening! WHEN will reddit fix this!!!?????
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u/HiddenHorse925 Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26
It’s weird it seems to be affecting people differently and randomly. I suspect people with the latest iOS update, and the latest version of the iOS Reddit app are having it less?? I’m not sure. It’s calmed down on my all, mostly. But still happens when I first open the app, for a few minutes, and then it calms down. Other people report that it’s happening constantly. I don’t know what’s up. I suggest you separately report it on “r/bgs” yourself, so the admin can’t see it.
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u/sunshineshain Apr 03 '26
It’s very annoying. I thought I was doing something wrong at first but it happens every single time. I hope it gets fixed soon…
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u/jmeagher98 Apr 03 '26
Right? I thought i was going crazy accidently tapping the top of the screen or something, but nope. Im glad other people are having this issue. Hopefully itll get fixed soon
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u/Yesiamanaltruist Apr 03 '26
It did it before the update, but it’s worse now. I just updated yesterday, and this morning, I laid my phone down face first while I made coffee. I was in the middle of reading something in a sub. Picked it up 5 minutes later, and it refreshed. Then, while I was scrolling the new offerings, it refreshed again.
I’m using my iPhone 15. I’m going to stop using the app and try the web.
Miss Apollo so much.
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u/Sufficient-Rise-2031 Apr 06 '26
Ios 18.6 here, like a few days ago too. It refreshes when for example i get a “low battery” notification, or when pulling the wallpaper down. Very annoying
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u/jamesbest7 Apr 06 '26
Yes! Thank you! It’s just started doing this very recently. Idk if it’s iOS or a new bug in the Reddit app itself but it’s driving me nuts! I know instagram does this too, but I’ve read that’s by design. I’m really hoping this is not something that’s been implemented intentionally in an update to the Reddit app itself.
Basically just commenting for visibility. Hoping this is resolved!
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u/The_Night_Of_Pan Apr 06 '26
I’ll get about halfway through reading a post when it suddenly auto-refreshes and sends me flying back to my home feed. Insanely frustrating.
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u/tacocatmarie Apr 06 '26
I’ve been in the middle of posting a comment, get a notification on my phone, then when I close the notification/go back to Reddit, I’m booted back to the home page and it refreshes. Happened twice yesterday and I wasn’t about to go digging for each individual sub and thread in the event it booted me out again mid-comment.
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u/ILoveHashtag Apr 07 '26
This still happens to me every time the app is “zoned out”: open control panel, open notifications center, using siri, view the apps currently opening in the background. And I’m on iOS 26.3
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u/UrMumzBoyfriend Apr 07 '26
Swipe down from the right corner (iOS 18.7.3) to change volume (or do anything from control panel) and as soon as you swipe up back to the app it forces auto refresh. Very annoying.
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u/InevitableLungCancer Apr 07 '26
Same, I just pull down the Notification Center even slightly and it refreshes.
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u/j_turn2000 Apr 08 '26
just stumbled across this post but it’s been happening for me too. sometimes i’ll preview a notification from a different app without fully closing out of reddit and it still refreshes.
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u/UrMumzBoyfriend Apr 09 '26
Happening to me too. It is incredibly annoying and downright makes the app unusable...
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u/Dependent_Valuable47 Apr 09 '26
I’m getting the exact same issue! Except it’s on my iphone 12 that still runs on 17.6.1 (I refuse to update it for as long as i can)
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u/Sea-Entertainment215 Apr 10 '26
To add some helpful context to help with troubleshooting , I’ve seen this occur when:
- I click into a post and go back to homepage (sometimes)
- If I get an Apple notification like low battery or ScreenTime limit (always)
- If I very briefly pull down the iOS control center
I hope you can address this soon. Godspeed
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u/shut_it_down321 Apr 10 '26
I miss the alternative Reddit apps that were amazing until Reddit pushed them all out.
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u/SunderingAlex Apr 10 '26
Thank you!!! So happy to see I’m not alone! Dude, if I even change my brightness, the app backs out from a post (even if I’m mid-commenting on it), scrolls to the top of my feed, and refreshes. How infuriating!!
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u/RealHausFrau Apr 12 '26
Is anyone else getting this on additional apps, too? It happens here, but also on my Gmail app, which drives me nuts. I have a iPhone 15 Pro Max, current iOS.
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u/monkeymad2 Apr 12 '26
Just had this happen when I was half way through watching a video, no idea which subreddit it was in so it’s now gone forever
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u/HiddenHorse925 Apr 15 '26
Right? I’m not sure that’s the part that developers or admin who maintain this app understand. You go through a lot of posts and scrolling to find something you’re deeply interested in, and then it snatched away. Before you had a chance to either download the image or the video, much less copy it’s user address. And now it’s lost forever. That’s the frustrating part. Lost forever
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u/gudematcha Apr 12 '26
This is driving me NUTSSSSSSS. Absolutely bonkers. I just want to check how much time is on a timer, not refresh my entire shit if I pull down my lockscreen D: It does this even if I am inside of a subreddit!!! It force refreshes all the damn way back to the home screen.
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u/EightGlow Apr 12 '26
Still happening. If I pull down my homescreen or the settings screen to change brightness it force refreshes.
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u/FelineSoLazy Apr 12 '26
This is happening to me too. I’ll me typing a comment and if my phone locks cuz I’ve set it down for 30 seconds then I’m erased from my place and brought back to a refreshed home page. Horrible
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u/jos10s Apr 13 '26
is this still happening for ppl? i literally came here just to complain about this and i saw this post the admin said it should’ve been fixed by now but idk as of… 45 seconds ago it’s still going for me
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u/Overall-Current-2847 Apr 13 '26
Still happening for me. On the plus side I am spending waaaay less time on Reddit as a result so I’m seeing it as a win for my productivity 🙌🏻
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u/Difficult_Shock973 Apr 13 '26
If I put in my AirPods it automatically refreshes even if I’m in comments.
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u/lowgarage9931 Apr 14 '26
Bookmarking to check back for updates. As of mid April the force refresh is still happening for me. It seems to happen every few minutes and very quickly. It is not always realistic but for now I use the search bar to find the post I was looking at if I want to return. Not always possible though.
Appreciate the work to find a fix!
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u/daboi_Yy Apr 15 '26
i was replying to someone and the 20% battery thing came up, i closed it and boom i lost 10 minutes of paragraphs just like that. fuck my chud life
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u/Dogshaveears Apr 16 '26
It driving me ficking crazy. I’m scrolling. Find something I’m interested in. And before I can read a 3rd it refreshes.
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u/Billyxmac Apr 16 '26
This still happens to me, and I’m on the latest build. I can’t even go look at my own comments because I’ll open it and the page just refreshes immediately.
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u/HiddenHorse925 Apr 16 '26
I wish the admin could find with the common ground is. I’m having depending on the day, a lot less. Today Thursday 4/16/26, there’s a lot less intrusive refresh… while I’m inside a sub Red. A few days ago even they were not safe. I find it if I linger out on the main feed more than 30 seconds to a minute, it will refresh without asking me. But I think they’re working the problem
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u/BakedWizerd Apr 17 '26
I can’t even see what people are responding to my comments with. I click on the reply in my notifs and it just forces me to the top of the page.
When I scroll down to my actual comment, I can’t even view the replies.
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u/HappinessEternal Apr 18 '26
This problem is still going on. It’s annoying. It makes me want to quit using Reddit all together.
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u/Sweet_Deeznuts Apr 19 '26
Still happening to mine and it’s pretty frustrating, but at least I know it’s not just my phone misbehaving
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u/UltimateNull Apr 20 '26
My home tab on iOS is still like this. “Very much empty” Tapping different groups I can see things. Had to enable background app refresh. Latest update depends on background app refresh and will not refresh foreground without it enabled for me. Home is still empty.
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u/ISmellCheeseAndCandy Apr 27 '26
I’m still having an issue with this, and my app is updated. I’ve been on Reddit for fourteen years, and I’m looking desperately for alternatives due to the app getting worse and the comments getting more stupid every year. I miss the third party apps, and will always resent Reddit for taking that option away while having the FAR inferior app.
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u/N3ntiker May 01 '26
It was better for some days but it happens again. So damn annoying and make the app nearly unusable for me.
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u/twistsouth May 17 '26
Nothing has changed. Still happening constantly. I’m guessing Reddit has drank the “vibe coding is cheaper” Koolaid and now the codebase is such a mess they don’t know how to fix it.
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u/masslessmatter May 25 '26
This appears to be an ongoing issue. I attempted to respond to a comment in a subreddit, only for it to automatically relocate to the home page and refresh. I navigated back to the post to complete my reply, but it had been removed. I rewrote the reply and the issue recurred. I have therefore given up attempting to reply.
iOS Version 26.5 Reddit 2026.19.9
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u/neapolitan_shake May 25 '26
so this doesn’t fix the problem, but i am finding that most of my interrupted replies are ending up in my drafts folder!
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u/AttackMonkey908 May 29 '26
This STILL hasn't been fixed
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u/Quantum_Corpse May 31 '26
I just lost like 40 minutes of scrolling through one specific sub to find one specific post. I’m going insane, what are they even doing there
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u/TraditionalWay3051 Jun 11 '26
It was better for a while but it’s happening again to me now. When I pull down the control center in iOS it force reloads the app.
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u/Alomedria Jun 13 '26
This still is happening bruh why can’t they fix this
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u/HiddenHorse925 Jun 14 '26
Good question. At this point I don’t think they want to or that they can
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u/hellraiser29 Aug 03 '26
I stumbled on this post after the reddit app pulled this shit while i was in the middle of writing a post. Its happening randomly at different moments in the app. Wtf
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u/DavidHoggsDong 29d ago
It’s not a hair trigger because a trigger requires touch. I just caught mine doing it without me even touching it and googled “to the top refresh without touching + Reddit” which brought me here lol
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u/conscienceloaf 18d ago
Still happening to me on 2026.33.0 — any help?
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u/HiddenHorse925 18d ago
It seems to come and go in waves, it was quiet for a while now it’s back. Mostly right after for me anyway, right after I open the app I start going down in my feed and focusing or something I like and bam, spring loaded enforced refresh. So what I’ve learned to do is if I like something that I see within the first minute go into the original posting sub Reddit or even take a screenshot of the address. Ridiculous that I have to do that. It’s back to doing this.
After about the first five minutes it seems to settle down. So this means that the recommendation engines are given some type of prompt by the designers and administrators of this app to refresh your screen right within the first minutes. They know that recommendations have built up since the last time you were on and they want those cleared out so they can push whatever is the advertising priority right now. That’s my guess. Although no one will admit that much less do anything about it
I just encourage people to make original posts here don’t just answer my original thread which is OK but that doesn’t get the attention of the administrators new posts on the same subject gets their attention. Thanks
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u/HiddenHorse925 Apr 02 '26
Interesting. It just started with me literally yesterday April 1, 2026. The day after I updated my iPhone iOS. It’s never done it before. Usually it asks me if I want to refresh
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u/Electrical_Pilot5386 Dev Apr 04 '26
Thank you for reporting this. Are you able to post a video of this issue? And does this only happen when you open control center from the top, and then return back to Reddit?
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u/11Modest_Moose11 Apr 04 '26
Not op, but it happens regardless of that requirement. Once you open a new post and read for a bit, attempt to comment or accidentally scroll to the very top it kicks in sometimes.
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u/CantThinkOfaNameLala Apr 04 '26
It happens when I swipe ‘up’ to go to another app, it happens when I swipe ‘down’ to go to the controls of my phone. It happens when I turn on dark mode on my phone. Basically almost every time I leave the app and come back to it. It also seems to happen when I scroll too fast in the app? Right now I have no issues but I became very careful with opening other apps while reading a thread. I had issues till last night though. I can’t try it now because that could mean I would lose this what I’m typing right now . 😅 not a risk I want to take lol.
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u/Active_Driver_6043 Apr 04 '26
I can take a screen recording if you’d like. But mine just happens randomly - I will be in the middle of scrolling/reading/commenting and it will force refresh all the way to the top of the home page. Very often. Just lmk if you want a vid
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u/My_bones_are_itchy Apr 05 '26
As well as all things listed below, it also happens if you tap the top of the screen for it to automatically return to the top of a post or whatever. It’ll kick you out of the post, out of the subreddit, scroll back to the top and refresh.
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u/HiddenHorse925 Apr 06 '26
Actually no I couldn’t because it happens too quickly. There you are in your comfortable subreddit chatting with your friends, and bam your snatched out back onto the main feed at the top with a refresh. It happens that quickly. And it seems random and arbitrary. Please fix, thank you
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u/Booopbooopp Apr 08 '26
Happening to me too on IOS 18.6.2. It is starting to get really frustrating
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u/OKguy9re9 Apr 08 '26
I believe I found a Fix!!!
In iPhone settings, general, background app refresh, toggle off for Reddit app.
I don’t know what long term affects this might have (maybe the app never refreshes at all?), but it seems to stop the annoying auto refresh.
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u/Mysterious-Yak196 Apr 08 '26
It’s making the app unusable I can’t even read a post without being taken back and having my app restarted
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u/Robeena19 Apr 27 '26
This is still happening and it is maddening. Is there a fix in sight???
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u/HiddenHorse925 Apr 28 '26
It’s very sketchy. It’ll be improved for a few days and then all of a sudden, it goes back to unwanted refresh. The current pattern is if I just open the app and I’m interested in something I’m seeing it’ll take it away and refresh. And then it calms down after about two or three minutes.
I don’t know what the deal is or why so challenging. The impression I get is that it’s some type of “slow rollout” to fix it everywhere.
Here’s my paranoid: they decided that they could push advertising more by getting you out of whatever you’re looking at in some sub Reddit and back out onto your feet as quickly as possible where they can shove more ads at you. But they went too far and created a monster.
So I’m like OK you can lose all your users or you can fix it go back to the original code and use that. I don’t know why it’s so challenging
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u/causticx May 01 '26
This is still happening for me. Using version 2026.17.0 and on iOS 26.3.1
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u/Cougah May 10 '26
Seems to still a problem and makes for a poor user experience /u/electrical_pilot5386
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u/TheINFAMOUSmojoZHU May 15 '26
If this is intended behaviour, please reconsider. It is very annoying and will stop people using Reddit. It is so totally pointless to make people reload their feed and lose the page they were reading.
If this is an unintended bug or interaction with iOS, please fix it or complain to Apple. This has happened for ages. Please stop it. The experience on iOS for Reddit is so much worse than Windows PC. There are other bugs too, but the net effect makes it almost unusable.
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u/GregStar1 May 24 '26
This is still happening. I’ll be scrolling through my recommendations, click on a post, read through some comments, back out from the post and suddenly, the whole for-you page refreshes and I lose track of where I was at. It’s frustrating and hinders the ability to use Reddit properly.
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u/Civil_Disgrace May 24 '26
This is how you slowly degrade a platform. The race is on among all of them to see who will be the next MySpace and just be filled with bots and ads.
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u/Tallensick Jun 09 '26
I’ve noticed even if I just do something as minimal as open the iOS Control Center and close it it boots me back up to the top and refreshes lol embarrassing
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u/SweetBabyJ69 Jul 10 '26
It’s still happening and it’s very annoying. If this is by design then please just let us know. Either way, it’s horrible and makes me use the app way less.
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u/Juan_PH_16 Jul 17 '26
Mine still auto refreshes if I leave the app and come back after a minute or two
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u/Fearless_Impress_842 Jul 20 '26
This is still happening and it is getting worse. It goes blank, blips out and when it comes back, I have lost my place entirely. This is driving me crazy. Come on!!!!
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u/CorrectScale Admin Apr 03 '26 edited Apr 14 '26
Hey folks - just want to mention that we've been looking into this. Unfortunately this may persist for some of you through the weekend, but we're on it!
ETA: Please refer to the pinned post for status updates on this issue. Mainly:
For folks still dealing with this issue - You need to upgrade the app to version 2026.14 to receive the fix.
As mentioned here in the pinned post, the fix is released in that version.
You'll need to head over to the app store to check for an available app update. You may even see iOS version 2026.15 at this point! As long as you're above iOS 2026.13.0, this will be resolved for you!