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Disappearing back, forward, bookmarks bar in safari

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minimo3

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Is there a way to stop the bottom navigation bar in safari from disappearing as you scroll/read a page? It's irritating to have to swipe down to have to make it appear. Sometimes when opening safari the bar is not there either so now you have to swipe to make it appear before you can go to a bookmark.
 
I also noticed that you have to tap twice on the top bar to go to the top of page now. First tap brings up the address bar and second tap brings you to the top of the page. Are they deliberately trying to make safari more inefficient.
 
iOS7 = content first. I don't find tapping bottom to bring up controls inefficient at all. I hardly ever need them when you can just swipe back and forward. The only time I need them is to activate reader or close the tab.
 
minimo3 said:
Is there a way to stop the bottom navigation bar in safari from disappearing as you scroll/read a page? It's irritating to have to swipe down to have to make it appear. Sometimes when opening safari the bar is not there either so now you have to swipe to make it appear before you can go to a bookmark.
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You can just tap the bottom of the page and the bar will appear.
 
You can go back and forward now with a swipe form the edge of the screen so you don't need it as much.
 
It's a phone! who want want to browse on a phone unless it was a real urgent emergency. Use a laptop of desktop to browse, use a phone for..... phoning, or maybe texting, and maybe email.
 
vexorg said:
It's a phone! who want want to browse on a phone unless it was a real urgent emergency. Use a laptop of desktop to browse, use a phone for..... phoning, or maybe texting, and maybe email.
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Different people use their devices in different ways.

Shocking, I know :rolleyes:
 
vexorg said:
I still say the clue is in the name....
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If that was the case, then there would be no Safari on the iPhone, nor an app store.

Many people don't own a computer. And those who do (myself included) spend much of our day (when not at work) out and about - where it's really nice to have a browser to look up information.

As the other user said, everyone has different needs for their phone. I don't see the point in paying $670+ just to use the phone..
 
vexorg said:
It's a phone! who want want to browse on a phone unless it was a real urgent emergency. Use a laptop of desktop to browse, use a phone for..... phoning, or maybe texting, and maybe email.
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Who? Probably everybody who bought a smartphone! Your usage profile does not need an iPhone or whatever, it can be done with every phone build after 2000...

Safari is by far the worst web browsing experience, if you ain't lucky to land on a rare page that supports the reader function, you can barely read anything or have to zoom and swipe all day.

Android for example is for people who read a lot of web pages still the reference, just tap to zoom and text is easily readable and fits your phone screen, no swipe needed.
 
cola79 said:
Who? Probably everybody who bought a smartphone! Your usage profile does not need an iPhone or whatever, it can be done with every phone build after 2000...

Safari is by far the worst web browsing experience, if you ain't lucky to land on a rare page that supports the reader function, you can barely read anything or have to zoom and swipe all day.

Android for example is for people who read a lot of web pages still the reference, just tap to zoom and text is easily readable and fits your phone screen, no swipe needed.
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I browse dozens of websites on my iPhone every day - I've never had a problem viewing any page. The worst case scenario is that I need to double click the text so it zooms and fits the text to the screen. A 1/2 second double tap on the screen hardly makes Safari on the iPhone an unusable browsing experience.
 
At first I found it to be awkward too, but then I discovered that if you start scrolling upwards, the bar will appear.
iOS 7 brings the content in the foreground and it is the correct way to do it. Safari on iOS 7 is really very good.
 
Tyler23 said:
I browse dozens of websites on my iPhone every day - I've never had a problem viewing any page. The worst case scenario is that I need to double click the text so it zooms and fits the text to the screen. A 1/2 second double tap on the screen hardly makes Safari on the iPhone an unusable browsing experience.
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You probably watch mobile websites but you can see what I mean when for example watching the apple forums. Just tap to zoom is useless, compare that with android phones and you know what I mean.

Apple does almost everything better than android, but the web browser is really bad.
 
cola79 said:
You probably watch mobile websites but you can see what I mean when for example watching the apple forums. Just tap to zoom is useless, compare that with android phones and you know what I mean.

Apple does almost everything better than android, but the web browser is really bad.
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I read multiple articles a day on the National Geographic site - they have no mobile version. It could be better implemented, but as it is it seems to be quite good. No issues here.
 
cola79 said:
Who? Probably everybody who bought a smartphone! Your usage profile does not need an iPhone or whatever, it can be done with every phone build after 2000...

Safari is by far the worst web browsing experience, if you ain't lucky to land on a rare page that supports the reader function, you can barely read anything or have to zoom and swipe all day.

Android for example is for people who read a lot of web pages still the reference, just tap to zoom and text is easily readable and fits your phone screen, no swipe needed.
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Exactly, screen is too small, mobile websites are crap, it's generally very slow, even on wifi. And there's never anything that so on fire that I couldn't wait until later.

Even on andriod it's an awful experience, fingers are too big for the screen, so you need to contantly zoom in and out or pan back and forward.
 
I can't believe people still think the iPhone is primarily a phone. Since day ONE the phone functions was nothing but two apps (phone / messages). The only reason it was even named iPhone was for people to grok in their minds why they would need a portable pocket computer. Which is what the iPhone is.
 
vexorg said:
It's a phone! who want want to browse on a phone unless it was a real urgent emergency. Use a laptop of desktop to browse, use a phone for..... phoning, or maybe texting, and maybe email.
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:rolleyes:I would bet 80% of iPhone users browse the web on their phone.
 
vexorg said:
Exactly, screen is too small, mobile websites are crap, it's generally very slow, even on wifi. And there's never anything that so on fire that I couldn't wait until later.

Even on andriod it's an awful experience, fingers are too big for the screen, so you need to contantly zoom in and out or pan back and forward.
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And there are others who don't use an iPhone as a phone for the most part. Doesn't make what anyone uses one for or doesn't use one for any more or less "right" for different people.
 
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