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From: Cameo <cameo@unreal.invalid>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone
Subject: Re: Losing typed-in text irretrievably
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 11:20:47 -0000 (UTC)
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Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
> Cameo <cameo@unreal.invalid> wrote:
>> Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>> On 2024-08-21 22:00, Cameo wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> It happens to me pretty often when I touch a key incidentally or when I
>>>> have to do something else before Send or Save. Then the text I spent long
>>>> time to type in just disappears irretrievably. In Android there was a
>>>> confirmation question before such a critical action. If such feature is
>>>> also available in iOS via some Setup option, I can not find it. But then I
>>>> am fairly new in the Apple environment. So go easy on me if I should know
>>>> this.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> In what context?
>>> 
>>> Where and when does this happen?
>>> 
>> 
>> Even this message I had to write again after the first one disappeared when
>> I had to put it into background till I looked up something in a browser
>> before Send.
>> It also happened several times when I was writing inside an app to share my
>> opinion about the app.
> 
> What phone do you have?
> 
> I've seen this before and I think it's due to the app being removed from
> active memory - or whatever it's called - by apps you open with it in the
> background. The paused app only saves some aspects which may not include
> draft text. This a feature of the app, not the OS. 
> 
> In the NewsTap newsreader I use, it saves draft messages. Reddit on the
> otherhand doesn't so I sometimes lose draft messages
> 
> Like YourName says I doubt android has built-in a way to avoid this. 
> 
I have an iPhone 15 Pro Max.