IOS 8.3 iPhone 6 Plus - Respring upon activating app switcher

im having a nasty little bug that I've not seen anywhere else via Google searches and whatnot. I've been having this issue for a few months with the iPhone 6 Plus. Occasionally, when I double press the hone button to activate the app switcher, iOS will respring (not a full reboot, just a software restart). I first started noticing it badly after the 8.2 update, which I did OTA. I am a truck driver, and when I was home recently, I did a full backup, software restore, and backup restore via iTunes on my Mac mini. Two days later, 8.3 came out and I did the update via iTunes on the computer, not OTA. In the past few days, the respring has started again. It's nothing more than software instability, but i am wondering if if is connected with a feature such as background app refresh or something similar. I can try doing the same back up/reset/restore on my computer when I come home off the road next, but if there is a known solution I'd love to try it.
iOS 8.3, iPhone 6 Plus 128GB

Howdy tpfultz,
It sounds like your phone is quickly restarting when you double tap the Home button. Quitting the running apps (if possible) and restoring from a backup is where I would have started. Next I would have to restore the phone as new, and verify it still works:
How to erase your iOS device and then set it up as a new device or restore it from backups
If it does, then restore your backup to either verify it still works and the software just needed reinstalled, or isolate the issue to the backup file itself. 
If it does not work after restoring as new, then I would seek service for the phone:
iPhone Repair and Service
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Sterling

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