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highstream

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Apr 30, 2020
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In bed using my iPad Mini 2 in a keyboard case, reading sites in Safari with four or five tabs open and with a strong wi-fi connection. I laid the Mini down (open) next to me on the comforter, got up and when I came back the case had rolled over on its back (screen facing up). No big deal. But picking it up, I found the screen with Amazon and all those thumbnails showing, but no amount of swiping could get me out of it. So going back to the home screen, I opened Safari (from the bottom) and now all the previously open tabs were now closed and the top section -- tabs and headers -- had turned dark grey/black. In addition, that first screen, where Amazon, etc., was is now empty except for an Edit button. I reconstructed the tabs open in Safari, but since then...

- websites (not apps) that rarely logged me out before now do so frequently once or twice to several times a session, seemingly soon after I leave them for another tab. Most annoying among these is my third-party email web portal, fastmail.com, which in an hour or two session I might have to re-log into six or seven times (yes, the "keep me logged in box" is checked).

- I've yet to find a way to change the tab/headers background color in Safari back to where it was (black on white if I recall correctly).

Any ideas what might be going on or have changed, and how to correct it? Thanks,
 

highstream

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Apr 30, 2020
5
0
Update: It seems that the Mini switched to Private mode on its own - by falling backwards a few inches on a down comforter. Private mode also seems to change the color of tabs and headers to dark grey/black, which is a good way of alerting the user. That is, if the user knew anything specific about Private mode to start with, which this user didn’t. Problem apparently solved.
 
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