iPad iPad Air on iOS 8 - Safari much improved

[thestranded]

Due to an unknown combination of some magic taps, or a bug, I now find that the bookmark sidebar no longer appears with every new tab I open; only the favorites array as in iOS 7.

If you close the sidebar as soon as you open a new tab, it remembers.

 

[TheIntruder]

If you close the sidebar as soon as you open a new tab, it remembers.

Indeed it is. I didn't think iOS had those mode-set prefs, but I'll take it.

Now, if only there was a way to turn off the shrinking address bar.

 

[jamesrick80]

I had almost constant Safari reloads on my Air using iOS 7 and I'm looking to get an Air 2 for my husband next month (well for me, he would get the Air 1).

Anyway I've beeb paying very close attention to the behavior since I updated.

1). I do believe the reloads have lessened.
2). However, I notice that even though I don't see the little blue line denoting a reload at times when I move from a tab and then return it returns me to the top of the page. Not where I left off. I think denotes a reload. Only happens about 30% of the time so I'm ok with it so far.
3) I have yet to need to exit Safari, open another app for research etc, and return so don't know if it will continue to reload there.
4) I have had several crashes, Sarafi, Weather Channel, ATT Uverse app being the most predominate.

Oh, one more thing, funny, it's almost like my eyesight suddenly worsened after the update. For some reason the text seems less clear, less dark. I have Bold Text turned on and even enlarged the text. Of course Safari doesn't use either of those options. But the text in Safari seems lighter and smaller than before. I've compared it to my husband's ipad 3 and the text does seem different. The 3 seems easier to read now. And don't tell me to get my eyes checked, Sarfari is the only place I'm noticing it.

Having said all that, so far I'm pretty happy with the update.

Safari stalls often and forces you to close it...other browsers work fine

 

[Count Blah]

Soooo pissed. Only safari open, and two tabs. Was typing a post in a thread on a different forum, went to the second tab to research something. When I came back, the forum tab reloaded.

What a poor user experience. This thing is unusable, if you want to retain info in one tab, and go to another. It's playing Russian roulette.

iOS 8, same as before. Don't kid yourself folks.