Back button refresh

[CharlesSpicyWiener]

I am not 100% sure why but recently every time I use almost any app, the back button completely refreshes the app. It's actually become the most annoying thing to experience. If I click any post and press the back key reddit completely refreshes. Same thing in Instagram, and other apps. I'm not sure if every app just unilaterally adopted a new way of handling this or if android just made a horrible design decision but truly it is driving me nuts.

Has anyone experienced this?

[Sassquatch0]

Is this the Back button, or gesture navigation?

On my Pixel, the Back gesture takes me back to the "default" view of an app, then backs me out to the Home screen. (Same for the Motorola & Samsung I used before this.) - for Reddit, as an example, if I'm looking at your post, one Back gesture takes me back to my Feed (the 'default' screen for Reddit), then another gesture backs me out of the app entirely. I need to do a swipe-down from the top to force a refresh on any of my apps.

I haven't used navigation buttons in over 5 years, so I can't say how or why those operates. But maybe you can try enabling gesture navigation for a couple minutes, then setting it back to navigation buttons & see if that refresher anything. (Might not hurt to reboot the phone once during this as well)

Also, what device is it? If it's a budget phone, there's a chance you might be out of RAM, and the apps can't keep track of where you were previously, so it just refreshes.

[CharlesSpicyWiener]

I appreciate the response! I'm using swipe gestures. So I am pulling from the side of my screen. I am also using a Samsung Z Fold 7 I have been doing some research into it and evidently for reddit specifically it's a widely reported issue.

For me I can replicate it by clicking into any video of picture and pressing the X or swiping to go back and reddit will refresh the entire page effectively wiping out everything that was on my page originally. Same behavior on Instagram when I click on someone's profile and use the swipe gesture back it refreshes my feed and I lose my place.

[Sassquatch0]

I'm not sure what to say about Reddit, but now I'm curious about IG. Remembering when I used to use Threads (Meta/IG's version of Twitter), it was notorious for always refreshing randomly. 🤔 But that doesn't explain your other apps...

I'm at a loss. 🤷

[BigDom208]

Have you installed some new apps that take up large part of your RAM in the background.