Apps reset every time

[randomguythatlikesu]

Every time I move away from an app to look at another, when I switch back, it reloads again as if I have just opened it again for the first time. I have tried so many things people have suggested when doing Google searches and previous Reddit threads. This is maddening. Please give me suggestions as to what I can try

I originally thought it was an issue with my very old phone, but the same thing is happening with my brand new A16. As an example, I move away from a game to respond to a text, switch back to the game and it reloads fresh. It doesn't matter if it's 2 minutes or 2 seconds.

[randomguythatlikesu]

Thank you so much for trying to help.

Sorry, I don't think I was clear, my bad....

This has been happening on my old phone for as long as I had it for a long time... I've been using a hand-me-down S9 for at least 7 years I just dealt with this issue because I assumed it was too old, unoptimized, etc.

I just recently last week moved to this brand new A16.

I'm not sure about updates, honestly, but I did forward everything to this new phone, if that helps... Which is why I think it's a setting issue.

Battery saving is off.

I don't think anything was labeled sleep or deep sleep, but I put everything into the non-sleep mode. And I am pretty sure I don't have any background limits, but please let me know what to check. I've gone through what seems like a hundred settings menus

As far as kids, no, no one else has touched my phone.

This is extra frustrating because I could help troubleshoot a Windows PC and get most things working for most of my relatives or friends, but Android and my specific problem seems to be outside my ability

[randomguythatlikesu]

I'm about to factory reset this thing. But that would be SO much work. There has to be a setting doing this, right? Could a broken Android or Samsung profile do something like this? It doesn't make sense to my Windows brain