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What is going on with the app on Iphone?

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WhenYouSayNothingAtAll · 27/08/2025 10:57

Not only is it incredibly laggy and keeps freezing/crashing,certain features won’t work unless I refresh or leave a thread and rejoin ,but it also messes up my phone. It gets hot incredibly quickly, brightness goes down , it freezes and it drains the battery. It’s becoming impossible to use for more than 10 minutes at a time. This doesn’t happen with any of my other apps.

It’s incredibly annoying, as I quite like a bit (A LOT) of MN during quiet times and now usage is very limited , but the phone is also useless for a bit .

I’m on an Iphone 13 mini and everything is up to date.

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littleburn · 27/08/2025 21:39

I’m having exactly the same issue with the app freezing (to the point where I can’t even exit Mumsnet) brightness going up and down and phone getting incredibly hot. I thought it was a sign my phone is getting old and worn out until I read the OP.

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WhenYouSayNothingAtAll · 27/08/2025 21:12

I’ve changed settings and tried various other things. The app is still nearly impossible to use.

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WhenYouSayNothingAtAll · 27/08/2025 17:34

HebeMumsnet · 27/08/2025 11:32

Hello @WhenYouSayNothingAtAll.

We'll look into this now and see if we can find any workarounds for you. It is an issue that has cropped up in the fairly recent past. In the meantime, could you check your settings and see if you're set to view 'all' pages in a thread, as that can really slow things down. Switching to 50 posts per page might help a bit.

Thank you for replying, I will give that a go and see if it makes any difference.

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HebeMumsnet · 27/08/2025 11:32

Hello @WhenYouSayNothingAtAll.

We'll look into this now and see if we can find any workarounds for you. It is an issue that has cropped up in the fairly recent past. In the meantime, could you check your settings and see if you're set to view 'all' pages in a thread, as that can really slow things down. Switching to 50 posts per page might help a bit.

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WhenYouSayNothingAtAll · 27/08/2025 11:07

Mum2twoandacockapoo · 27/08/2025 11:01

Not just the app . I use the website and it’s the same . Tbh I’m sure it was the reason my phone crashed earlier in the year and wouldn’t come back on but the last couple of days it’s been so much slower and freezing a lot more . I thought it was my internet signal but it’s fine on every other site . It’s awful .

I hate using the site so I don’t know if it’s just as bad. Have been on the app since I’ve posted and it’s already crashing/freezing and my phone is burning up and brightness down. Need to go off it now for a while to get another 10/20 minutes session. Bloody ridiculous!

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Mum2twoandacockapoo · 27/08/2025 11:01

Not just the app . I use the website and it’s the same . Tbh I’m sure it was the reason my phone crashed earlier in the year and wouldn’t come back on but the last couple of days it’s been so much slower and freezing a lot more . I thought it was my internet signal but it’s fine on every other site . It’s awful .

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