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iOS 15: Check Out Safari's New Tab Bar, Tab Groups, and Tab Switcher
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It's nice that they added tab groups, as a user of TabSpace on Safari in macOS, it's been handy to close a session of tabs for selling things and shift focus to a new space. Having it natively then syncing with my iPhone is a plus.
Content blockers seemed to be a huge deal to me when announced but then I never really saw them put to use. I looked into making my own to get rid of 'sponsored content' tabloids, social share links, sites with floating autoplay video, mainly the garbage past regular ads I'm fine with.
I use 1Blocker on iOS and Wipr on macOS. They're a decent way to make the web slightly less annoying to use.
My Pinned tabs keep disappearing entirely. I can't tell if it only happens if I make some other bookmark or tab-group change, but it's a bug, probably from some sync glitch, I'm guessing.
OR it may be that Pinned Tabs only show up when you choose Start Page. Open a Tab Group, and prior pinned tabs aren't there. Confusing. "Pinned" to me would mean they're in all windows.
Update: Nope they're gone again, even from a blank start page.
OR it may be that Pinned Tabs only show up when you choose Start Page. Open a Tab Group, and prior pinned tabs aren't there. Confusing. "Pinned" to me would mean they're in all windows.
Update: Nope they're gone again, even from a blank start page.
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After almost a week of using the new Safari, my Main complaint remains the floating bar at the bottom. The mobile web’s overall design has been loosely based off of the millions of people using iPhones. There’s going to be malicious sites that will abuse the placement of the floating bar to try and get clicks and ads.
Having everything hidden or placed in a different spot, all of that Apple can force people to just shlog on and use it that way anyway. But the bar at the bottom instead will cause more problems than any sort of “solutions” they’re trying to solve. Not actually sure what they’re even trying to solve here.
Having everything hidden or placed in a different spot, all of that Apple can force people to just shlog on and use it that way anyway. But the bar at the bottom instead will cause more problems than any sort of “solutions” they’re trying to solve. Not actually sure what they’re even trying to solve here.
Older folks, who buy an iPad/iPhone because it’s simple and just works, will be so confused by this. I hate the extra clicks to do something just to show a small amount of screen at the top. They need to can this or make it an option you can turn on if you’d like, not the default.
Ask yourself this question, would you be okay if apple moved the app dock from the bottom of the Home Screen to the top? If not, why?
Absolutely terrible change to Safari. This needs a lot of work. The text in the address bar is constantly being cut off since they tried to cram everything under the sun in there.
And who thought it was a good idea to bury the reload button into a contextual menu?
The new tabs suck as well.
And who thought it was a good idea to bury the reload button into a contextual menu?
The new tabs suck as well.
Using Tab Groups seems to take a lot of re-learning. If you open a bunch of tabs in a Group, it seems important that you don't close any of them when you're done reading, or they will be permanently removed from the group. So I guess you're only allowed to move to the next one but not to close it. But I'm so used to closing tabs, I'm messing up the saved groups.
Ditto, if you open any links from the pages you've saved in a group, they get added to the group.
Seems pretty counter-intuitive to me: Just because I'm done for now with a page I've saved in a group doesn't mean I want it deleted from the group forever. Right? Or maybe I'm not understanding the best use of Tab Groups vs. bookmarks, etc.
Ditto, if you open any links from the pages you've saved in a group, they get added to the group.
Seems pretty counter-intuitive to me: Just because I'm done for now with a page I've saved in a group doesn't mean I want it deleted from the group forever. Right? Or maybe I'm not understanding the best use of Tab Groups vs. bookmarks, etc.
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Very possible. I also have some bookmarks folders ticked to open with one click, which has worked great.
I guess I'm wondering the best uses for Tab Groups; what new situation are they good for?
I think they might be interesting if, say, you're looking at a bunch of stuff for a project (let's say gift ideas).
- you start opening tabs for that on one device
- you give those tabs a common group
- you continue on a different device
I can do it from Safari to other devices but don't see a way to do it from iOS to OS.
Right? Love this and for all that dislike it I’ll bet many have pro model or max model series iPhones that this would benefit them every minute using the browser.
quesrion I have is
“tabs are arranged as thumbnail previews in a vertically scrolling grid” can these thumbnail preview of we tabs each be scrollable?! That would be sweeet.