Whoa, they do this on iPad? Is that a new iOS thing?
I have 500 tabs in Safari on my iPhone. It's a nice time capsule of what I used to be reading. (500 is the cutoff limit, apparently.)
I have 500 tabs in Safari on my iPhone. It's a nice time capsule of what I used to be reading. (500 is the cutoff limit, apparently.)
In most cases this is fine and frees up memory for other apps/tabs, but with web apps with local state, said state gets clobbered in a way that never happens on a desktop browser. Because it is fully automatic you can never really tell or trust that local application state will still exist if you tab away and back.
Oftentimes I’ve been underground and I’d go back into Safari to read a page I already had open, but it triggers a new request with no internet connection and then blows up.
I would hope that at least the last open tab would be held in memory or otherwise heavily cached when the signal degraded enough to prevent a reload.
Though, admittedly, I never got it to work right at actually using the offline-snapshot versions of pages when I was, er, offline. Even though it clearly had them taking up space on the disk.
However, in rare cases if you’re foolish (aka me) you might:
1. Unintentionally open a new Safari window via iPadOS multitasking.
2. Unintentionally close the original Safari window with your 400+ tabs.
3. Lose 400+ tabs permanently.
I’ve learned the hard way to just use the Reading List.