iOS 18 May Feature All-New 'Safari Browsing Assistant'

[Fuzzball84]

Surf assistant... imagine it during people searching for adult material 😂

 

[AriaAmaris]

Just give me simple access and leave me alone. All of this sounds very intrusive and googleish. We all know that these tools will be used to increase the profitability of advertising, our privacy be damned.

 

[nicolas17]

Siri has been able to direct you to some Safari Web sites for fact finding, but it's really challenging to go to more specific word web search when issuing verbal queries except for very generalized topics. I hope they can do this akin to Siri understanding longer text, that would be a major step ahead for iPhone handsfree situations using AI.

But if it's tied to iCloud + accounts, they can keep it, I don't want a subscription against web searches that I can do better using other methods. Also don't want this used as a new means to marketing Apple subscriptions or 3rd party content they nudge to you.

As far as I can tell, it won't be tied to accounts, on the contrary, it uses something similar to Private Relay so that Apple doesn't even know if two requests came from the same IP address or not. They're going out of their way to not track you.

 

[nicolas17]

lmao they gonna charge for it? I have an iCloud+ sub so doesn't matter to me but they should offer a free version at least.

As far as I know, Mail Tracking Protection uses the same system as iCloud Private Relay. yet you don't have to pay for it. I really doubt you'll have to pay for this one either.

 

[stiligFox]

Googles “big tittied goth girlfriend”

Siri: “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t Google that.”

 

[MallardDuck]

Right...because web browsing is so hard....

 

[iLuddite]

Really hoping this ***** is disable-able

 

[Victor Mortimer]

I am a simple man that just wants real Firefox with UBO on my iPhone ...

FYI, uBlock does work in Orion.

Sadly, Bypass Paywalls Clean doesn't, I tested it today. It installs, but it doesn't fix the WaPo or WSJ paywalls.

 

[Victor Mortimer]

Excited to see the potential, but hoping that they'll be able to be toggled.
AI you cannot disable is annoying AI by definition.

FTFY.

Assuming this will be able to be avoided by avoiding Safari like I already do. I wish we could force in-app browsers to use the system default browser, and of course that we could prevent WebKit from EVER running.

 

[Victor Mortimer]

As far as I know, Mail Tracking Protection uses the same system as iCloud Private Relay. yet you don't have to pay for it. I really doubt you'll have to pay for this one either.

"Mail Tracking Protection" is utterly worthless. The 'web bug' in emails is tied to the individual email sent. If it's loaded from ANY address, you opening the email has been tracked. The only REAL protection is preventing remote images in emails from loading at all.

 

[Beautyspin]

I use Safari as my default browser, but boy, has it become bloated. Profiles, Tab Groups, Favorites, Tab Group Favorites, iCloud Tabs, … I have no idea what syncs and what doesn’t. It’s so messy and unintuitive.

Maybe the solution is that DOJ wins and the US follows the EU. Safari Marketshare drops and Apple is forced to make it better.

Report: People are bailing on Safari after DMA makes changing defaults easier

Indie browsers report significant spikes in users in the past month.

arstechnica.com

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

Amazing that google will be even more late than apple this time

 

[Dj64Mk7]

Sounds like something a Bloomberg writer would say.

I guess my three college credits of technical writing finally got me somewhere. 😂

 

[svish]

Seems very interesting. Looking forward to hearing more about it.

 

[Alex Cai]

that's Apple Arc Search

 

[canpoyrazoglu]

And what happens if iCloud Private Relay is blocked in your country even if you are a paying iCloud+ customer?

 

[bass.wav]

What I really want Siri to be able to do is act on prompts like “Play me an episode from my podcasts I have yet to listen to which features an interview with a sound designer”

 

[Fraserpatty]

What I really want Siri to be able to do is to be able to search my photos for dates, locations, people, and objects like she was able to do for a very short time before Apple took that capability away. I don’t know why it was taken away, but I really want it back. I would also like for her to be able to add information to a specific note like she used to be able to do before Apple took that function away. That’s one of the main problems with Siri, one day you can do something and then for whatever reason Apple takes that function away. That shouldn’t be too much work for them since they’ve already managed it in the past. I would also like for Siri to be able to tell me the pollen count and what type of pollen is prevalent when giving the weather. Apple is so much about health, that is very pertinent information for those of us with allergies as we are going out for a walk or a run. You know, every day stuff .

 

[ThunderSkunk]

The most useful thing i can think of for an ai web browsing assistant to do is to help by eliminating all the low-quality ai-generated garbage from search results.

 

[ThunderSkunk]

What I really want Siri to be able to do is act on prompts like “Play me an episode from my podcasts I have yet to listen to which features an interview with a sound designer”

Id settle for, “resume playing the episode i paused a few minutes ago. …no not the first song alphabetically in my music library, which I havent listened to in three years, a podcast. Pooooodcaaaaaast. P o d c a

 

[Fraserpatty]

Id settle for, “resume playing the episode i paused a few minutes ago ago. …no not the first song alphabetically in my music library, which I havent listened to in three years, a podcast. Pooooodcaaaaaast. P o d c a

I find that if the last thing I said pause to is what I want to resume I just say resume and it seems to work. But I know what you mean very well.