OfficerSuperwoman wrote:
How and why does the “offload apps” function keep turning ITSELF back on AFTER I’VE TURNED IT OFF?
Doing so caused an EXTREMELY important app, due to the information in it being part of an ACTIVE investigation I’m working on as the lead detective for my law enforcement agency, to randomly “offload” and lose almost ALL of the information inputted into it. 🤬🤬
Lastly, how do I make it stop doing this, AGAIN, and PERMANENTLY this time, since this is the SECOND time it has caused this to happen?
Only a very poorly designed app will lose any data when offloaded. App data is saved in non-volatile storage, and any properly designed app will always safe data before going to sleep, the only time when it can be offloaded. Only an app that stores it data in RAM without continuously moving it to storage will lose data.
You can go to Settings/General/iPhone Storage, where you can disable Offload Unused Apps (the default is disabled) but either way is should not lose data.
One way an app CAN lose data is if you are in the (very bad) habit of force-quitting apps by swiping up partway and pausing to open the App Switcher, then swiping up on the app, which can result in lost data; but even that won’t usually lose data unless you do it very quickly after entering data, before it can be preserved in storage.
You should contact the app developer to find out why it is not following best practices and saving all updates immediately.
