Does this mean Safari will continue to run in the background? I seem to recall previously that downloads of shady roms would hang if I went to do something else.
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iOS 18.2 Lets You Track Progress of Safari Downloads on Lock Screen
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Yes, it's news to me that downloads continue. Every time I've tried it in the past they always seem to stall (or maybe they go into some sort of battery saving super-slow download mode). It's not just when I lock my device but switching to another app seems to do it too. In fairness I'm mainly talking about my experience on the iPad, so maybe it's different from the iPhone for downloads. I normally keep Safari open using split view to make sure the download keeps going.
To heck with the naysayers - this is a cool feature! I’ll use my iPad or iPhone sometimes to download installers or media on faster networks than I have at home and being able to see the progress of the download before I leave the network area will be awesome.
And yes there’s a lot in Mobile Safari that needs improving/fixing but I doubt this took very much resources or effort to implement - like I don’t think this took away from fixing anything.
And yes there’s a lot in Mobile Safari that needs improving/fixing but I doubt this took very much resources or effort to implement - like I don’t think this took away from fixing anything.
that's because of web developers eager to jump on using Blink-exclusive experimental features and not coding to Web standards. Nothing Apple can do about that. Firefox is suffering from the same problem too.
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If it were up to me, I'd put "downloading" in the second line so more of the file name can show.
(second line will be: a MB/b MB downloaded)
(second line will be: a MB/b MB downloaded)
It matters because you are complaining about desktop Safari and this thread is about Safari in iOS. It is my opinion that your original post in this thread is off-topic.
Well there ARE websites out there where you can download Gigs worth of video files…
…but they are often compressed so you can’t unrar them without a separate app.
…and they are in a file format not recognized by iOS, so you need another app to play them.
In the end, it’s not worth the hassle and I’ll just grab my MacBook to download.
…but they are often compressed so you can’t unrar them without a separate app.
…and they are in a file format not recognized by iOS, so you need another app to play them.
In the end, it’s not worth the hassle and I’ll just grab my MacBook to download.
Desktop : OK?
iOS : I'm surprised about this, but it's
not totally true. This doesn't seem to be the case outside of EU.
I like that fact it can do that now but in reality we should have always been able todo this also we should be able to use dual windows in safari instead of using a 3rd party app also widgets need more work and functionality because to me they just seem like shortcuts in my opinion apple don’t really listen to the Consumers at all
I’m not sure if it was said anywhere, but printing progress as a live activity is new on 18.2 too. (Edit: this was actually there on 18.1)
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