On a smartphone, when you start an application, the usual behaviour of the device is to open the application as you left it last time.
However, in some cases, resetting the state of the application is your best bet.
A camera software that prepares to shoot whenever it opens, regardless what I was doing last time (e.g. review the stored photos). It makes sense because if I start the camera it's almost always to take a new picture. To review existing pictures, I'd rather go directly to the media library.
A dictionary that sets ready for a new search whenever it opens, even if I was busy reading a definition last time I quit it. Relevant, because you can be quite sure that what I want is to do a new search.