Recently used apps refreshing completely when you go back to them, now?

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I've had this for a few months now. Not sure if it's related to an Android update or maybe my phone's RAM dying or something weird.. dunno? But basically when I swipe up across the home button and get to my recent apps; it used to be that you would go straight back into the app. E.g. a website you were just on was immediately there and scrollable etc. Now what happens is the app I go back to seems to want to refresh itself. E.g. if I go back to Chrome the whole page refreshes and I have to wait for it to load. It's extremely frustrating! If I swipe left across the home button the last-used app also completely reloads.

Does anyone know why this might be? Using a Xiaomi A2 Lite updated to Android 10 (1st Sep 2020)
 
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Welcome to MIUI's battery/memory management. You can try go through this guide to see if any of it helps: https://dontkillmyapp.com/xiaomi

You can also use this app to see how aggressive MIUI's management is (100% is stock Android behaviour): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.dontkillmyapp

However reading here it seems Xiaomi messed up somewhere and the latest update is suffering memory leakage issues, which could be the reason why apps are being killed instantly: https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-a2-lite/how-to/android-one-mi-a2-litev11-0-11-0-t4163685
 
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Thanks for all that. If I make some of those listed changes, does Android's Doze function still work or am I likely to see battery drain? Trying a few now…

EDIT: Simply turning off Adaptive Battery as suggested in the XDA thread seems to work!

Doze will still work as normal, it's only when you turn off adaptive battery it will affect it. You'll need to wait for Xiaomi to have a proper fix before turning it back on.

Turning off Xiaomi's extra battery management won't affect battery, and instead will allow apps to perform properly (eg WhatsApp may have delayed notifications if they're kept on).
 
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My Samsung Note 4s, Note 8 and Xiaomi A2 Lite have been doing this for a long time. I reckon it was a Google update around 12-18 months ago that did it as it affected all my phones at around the same time. In all cases for the affected Apps (i.e. the ones that p*** me off the most when they do it) even removing them from optimisation makes no difference.
 
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