Deferred tabs slow down Obsidian mobile App

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Here’s my Obsidian start-up time breakdown:

Operating system: android 14 (Fairphone FP5)
Obsidian version: 1.7.7 (171)
API version: v1.7.7

  • Total startup time: 8,865ms
  • Initialization: 443ms
  • Vault (1,307 files): 1,104ms
  • Workspace (12 tabs, 11 deferred): 5,749ms
  • Core plugins: 284ms
  • Community plugins (6 active): 1,285ms
    • Projects (v1.17.2): 267ms
    • Spaced Repetition (v1.13.2): 167ms
    • Natural Language Dates (v0.6.2): 151ms
    • Tasks (v7.0.0): 132ms
    • Calendar (v1.5.10): 116ms
    • Periodic Notes (v0.0.17): 89ms

As you can see, my Obsidian mobile app takes almost 9 seconds to load. There are 11 deferred tabs that obviously slow down start up significantly.

Any tips how I can close these tabs/make start up faster?

Thanks!

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I have the same exact problem.
What are deffered tabs?

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I’m in the same boat…

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I too… Who can help??

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I had a similar experience and first suspected deferred tabs, reduced them but startup times remained the same.

In my experience, some plugins affect sections like “Workspace” anonymously, and this doesn’t count towards the time of the plugin itself. In my case, disabling or lazy loading certain plugins improved “Workspace” times.
First, try restricted mode to see if you get the same results.

In other cases, disabling a plugin can affect “Workspace” or “Vault” times just by having the associated file in the /.obsidian/plugins folder.

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If possible, go to the app settings and disable the option that keeps deferred tabs open on startup. This could significantly reduce loading time.

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There is no option to disable deferred tabs and most likely this slowdown has nothing to do with deferred tabs.

Actually, it may have been solved with 1.8.9

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I still have the problem (pretty severely; see screenshot) with v1.8.9. It opens in about 2 sec in Restricted mode.

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If the issue improves in Restricted Mode, then one of your community-plugins is the culprit. You’ll need to enable them one by one to find the culprit.

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Beautiful! I didn’t troubleshoot outside “Workspaces”. The Tasks plugin was the problem, but after an update it’s no longer messing up the startup time. Happy.