iOS cached Screen Flashes after Splash Image
andrew at midwestcoastmedia.com
andrew at midwestcoastmedia.com
Wed Mar 14 12:12:14 EDT 2018
I don't have a clear answer for this, but just an observation: iPhone
5 was the last of the Apple 32bit hardware devices. That makes me
think this is an OS issue more than an LC issue.
--Andrew Bell
> I'm getting a very strange complaint from one user who has an older
> iPhone 5 running iOS 11.2. When the app opens it briefly flashes the
> last screen that was up before the app was closed. This happens in
> between the splash page and the app's first card. The page flashed
> page sometimes even has an "answer" dialog from a previous session!
> I can't replicate it on any of my 3 iOS devices. I also noticed that
> Pandora and Google Maps does the same thing on my iPad Mini but on
> my iPad or iPod. The user has two other non-LC apps that are doing
> the cached flashing. All of the user's other apps except for LC apps
> and two others don't exhibit the flashing behavior. I'm wondering if
> the Apple throttle-back for older batteries is exposing: a problem
> with LC(and other apps), an iOS bug or their device need a factory
> reset. The last thing I want to do is have the user factory reset
> their iPhone and have the same thing happen. Could this be an Apple
> bug for testers that side load many versions of apps? This user has
> side-loaded many versions to test. Then I had download a store
> version of the app that never did it before and it's now happening
> but never did before. I find it very strange that apps that never
> did this are now acting strangely. I find very little in web
> searches on this subject. The few hits I've seen were mainly Safari
> a couple of years ago and a one or two non native Xcode "app
> building" platforms.
>
> Has anyone else ever seen this?
> Thanks
>
> Ralph DiMola
> IT Director
> Evergreen Information Services
> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
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