iOS 26: Restore Safari's Old Layout From iOS 18

[AstroChris88]

Better yet….just use Brave Browser! Blocks most ads with no addons and it’s free.

 

[pickleops]

a three-dot button

Ellipsis. It's called an ellipsis.

 

[Schwarzmaler20]

What lunatic puts the address bar to the bottom when every browser since Netscape 1.0 had it placed at the top.

 

[longofest]

I don't care about the layout. I care about them making it so that Safari doesn't constantly crash. Can they do that???

 

[madebybela]

What lunatic puts the address bar to the bottom when every browser since Netscape 1.0 had it placed at the top.

I think its better on the bottom from a practical sense, but aesthetically I just like it on the top lol

 

[longofest]

What lunatic puts the address bar to the bottom when every browser since Netscape 1.0 had it placed at the top.

The lunatics that realized that on a phone, your fingers/thumbs are at the bottom of the screen and so its easier to tap on the URL bar when its at the bottom of the window rather than the top for mobile browsers.

 

[nathansz]

can we get compact tabs back in macOS 26?

 

[pdxrevolution]

Is there an option to not making it floating? Because the floating nature actually makes it take up a lot more space now when using the bottom option, while unnecessarily squeezing everything tighter.

Not that I could find. The option to have the bar at the bottom, but not be compact, exists, but it is not the same as iOS 18. It shrinks and expands as you scroll, which I struggle with. I don't like when the chrome changes sizes and locations on its own. Shrinking the bar at the bottom doesn't really help you read more text because it takes up some space in the middle of the window, where text lives. So you get a pointless animation that doesn't change what you can actually do with the space.