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Mobile Safari uses a special caching mechanism Page Cache ( here ) which basically keeps the current page alive but hibernated when we navigate to another page. This way, it can immediately display the previous page in its latest state when user presses back button. This is useful for navigation and browsing web but for special cases this becomes annoying as you may need to get a fresh copy of the page each time user navigates to that page. (in my case I have to pages: login and main page). I am totally aware that nothing prevents user from opening multiple tabs of the same application. I not

Working on my first jQuery Mobile app. There is a localStorage value that must have a value throughout the application, so I tapped into the pageshow event to check this value: $(function () { $("div[data-role='page']").on("pageshow", function (event, ui) { if (getValue() == null) { // show the dialog $.mobile.changePage("#dialog"); } }); }); This works when navigating through the various pages, but never gets called when the first page loads. I tried to copy the above If statement again below the part where I add the pageshow listener, but it has the effect of showing the dialog, hiding it,