Whilst testing one of out new company web portals on an iPhone 6S running IOS 14.3 I was logged into the portal in private browsing mode when the battery died. After charging I returned to safari to find the portal had logged me as expected but how did Safari remember the page? I thought safari didn't save any browsing activity in Private mode and that a restart would clear any information held in memory? Im guessing safari writes the suspend state to storage even in private mode?
Any thoughts appreciated as always.
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Yes, during private browsing mobile Safari records information about the tab session - even if the tab was being browsed in private. Â This is retained in the BrowserState.db, where the tabs table retains the most recent tab that was open when the browser suspended. Â There is a handy column that indicates if the tab was open in private.
Furthermore, the tab_sessions table retains more history about the tab when it was open. Â This is retained in a binary plist, as a BLOB in the SQLite database.
The following document provides some information, from the viewpoint of iOS13 - and I believe it is still current for iOS14
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Hope that helps
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