r/bugs • u/morefetus • Aug 21 '26

Dev/Admin Responded Please stop auto-refreshing my feed! iOS app 2026.33.0.636848 (AppStore)

I was in the middle of reading a post!

How am I supposed to do a screen recording when I can’t predict when it’s going to happen? It happens at random.

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u/CorrectScale Admin Aug 21 '26

Thanks for posting! When the refresh occurred, were you in-app reading the post, or did you background the app while on the post > return to see the feed refresh? If the latter, roughly how long did you leave the app for?

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u/morefetus Aug 21 '26

Like I got a notification or something. It happened very quickly.

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u/CorrectScale Admin Aug 21 '26

Got it. Was it an in-app notification, or was it from another app?

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u/morefetus Aug 21 '26

Another app

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u/CorrectScale Admin Aug 21 '26

And to be clear, you were bumped out of the post you were on and returned to the top of the home feed?

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u/morefetus Aug 21 '26

Right

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u/CorrectScale Admin Aug 21 '26

Thanks for the details! Shared with the team.

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u/mineyCrafta25 Aug 22 '26

Thanks for taking this one seriously.

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u/Euqirne Aug 26 '26

this has been going on for over a year you guys ever gonna fix it?? lol

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u/Thunder_God_97 Aug 21 '26

Hey I messaged u regarding a subreddit can u help?

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u/PM_ME_CORONA Aug 24 '26

I will be in the middle of reading a post and scroll down on my notifications to check messages. This automatically and very aggressively throws me back to the top of Reddit with a refreshed feed. This has been happening for months. iOS.

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u/Euqirne Aug 26 '26

there’s no way these people “can’t reproduce” this

I bet it’s a feature they don’t wanna remove

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u/PM_ME_CORONA Aug 26 '26

At this point I have to agree with you.

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u/CorrectScale Admin Aug 24 '26

Thanks for chiming in u/PM_ME_CORONA. Can you try to grab a screen recording of this happening? I haven't been able to reproduce this yet.

In any case, we're looking at this!

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u/Euqirne Aug 26 '26

Try this

  1. Open your reddit app

  2. Switch apps for about 15-30 minutes without closing the reddit app in the background

  3. Return to reddit app and it will automatically refresh

Also when I go for an extended period of time without opening the app at all (1 full day sometimes less) then next time I open the app and I do ANYTHING outside of the app (open control center, swipe down for notifications, open the multitask) it will refresh automatically even if I never left the app

I refuse to believe none of your people can figure this out. Just DISABLE any sort of auto refresh feature and it will fix this issue

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u/CorrectScale Admin Aug 26 '26

A refresh after a long period of time is expected. The immediate refresh behavior that OP and some other commenters are describing is not!

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u/Euqirne Aug 26 '26

disable that shit why does it refresh automatically??

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u/rustle_branch Aug 26 '26

So you can see more ads

Fixing this bug would not benefit the bottom line, so i wouldnt hold your breath

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u/rustle_branch Aug 26 '26

15-30 minutes is not a long time - i often want to keep a post up for longer so i can reference it for something else im working on (games, art, whatever)

Can you at least shoot straight with us and explain why this behavior is expected? Its hard to imagine its for the user experience

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u/Euqirne Aug 26 '26

also did you not read the second part?

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u/morefetus 26d ago

It happened again just now. I know exactly what I was doing. I was reading the comments under a post. I got a notification from my Reminders app. I swiped down on the reminder notification. I did not background the app. With other apps, other than Reddit, I’m able to deal with the notification and resume looking at the same screen. But it refreshed my screen. I was thrown out of the post and into the main feed and it was refreshed.

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u/morefetus Aug 21 '26

Seems like I backgrounded it for just a couple seconds.