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iOS 26: Restore Safari's Old Layout From iOS 18
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What lunatic puts the address bar to the bottom when every browser since Netscape 1.0 had it placed at the top.
I don't care about the layout. I care about them making it so that Safari doesn't constantly crash. Can they do that???
I think its better on the bottom from a practical sense, but aesthetically I just like it on the top lol
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.
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.
I hate that I can no longer see if there is a tab to the left or right anymore.
You can see in these two images on iOS 18 swiping right will take you to the next tab in the top image, the bottom image shows there is no tab to the right and if you swipe right a new tab will be created.
iOS 26 on the other hand has no indication, if I swipe right I could be moving to the next tab or a new tab could be created, there is no way to know before swiping.
You can see in these two images on iOS 18 swiping right will take you to the next tab in the top image, the bottom image shows there is no tab to the right and if you swipe right a new tab will be created.
iOS 26 on the other hand has no indication, if I swipe right I could be moving to the next tab or a new tab could be created, there is no way to know before swiping.
It's really, really counterintuitive to tap a button named "Bookmarks" to access history. The only reason I knew to do that was because of the association with the book icon in prior versions of iOS. I can't imagine what that'll be like for people who don't actively pay attention to those kinds of things.
Technically, it's called the "More" button.
And speaking of the More button, does anyone else here get horribly mixed up sometimes about which actions are in the More button and which are in the share sheet? It's really bad, for me personally, in the Photos app.
I understand that.Ellipsis - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
However, https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/toolbars, refers to it as a "More menu", meaning that the button with an elipsis on it is called the "More button". That's also what VoiceOver calls it.