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New Safari Can Monitor a Webpage and Notify You of Updates

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Apple's new version of Safari browser in macOS 27 and iOS 27 can be tasked to monitor a webpage and notify you of any changes, thanks to a new built-in feature.

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With "Notify Me," Safari can keep checking a website on your behalf – such as a product you've been watching for when it comes back in stock – and alert you when a change occurs.

In other upcoming feature additions, using the power of AI, Safari tabs that you have open can automatically be organized into topics.

Moreover, thanks to the new Siri AI features, Apple says that you can describe what you want in natural language, and Safari can create a custom extension that adapts web pages just for you.

It's worth noting, however, that the new enhanced Siri AI features that Apple announced today at WWDC 2026 will not be available in the European Union or in China when they are released in beta later this year.

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Keep Siri/goog away from safari photos music etc.!!!!!

If you want to infect Siri with Gemini fine but everything else should be left alone, good gravy smh
 
Have long used other services for this. The most critical thing is how often it checks since many things something can sell out in minutes. But also Apple checking sites constantly for all its users wouldn’t be good for the websites though assume they only check each site and then use that cache for any users who ask for it next time.
 
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Super cool, I remember setting up one of these when I was waiting for some preorders to open up back in the day
 
This seems like a nice on paper feature, but looking at their update scheduling (Check Daily at 10:00am) I doubt this is actually going to be useful at all. Most people want this to know exactly when a page changes, not to just casually check once a day or even every few hours.
 
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jclardy said:
This seems like a nice on paper feature, but looking at their update scheduling (Check Daily at 10:00am) I doubt this is actually going to be useful at all. Most people want this to know exactly when a page changes, not to just casually check once a day or even every few hours.
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Modern websites are already struggling big time with the amount of bot traffic, having everyone's browsers refresh sites constantly and render everything on the page to check for updates would only make things worse. It could also get you mistaken for a bot and blocked at the IP level...

Daily is conservative but this is probably why it was chosen.

edit: Check daily is what it shows in the screenshot but there's an "edit" button so we don't know what the options actually are yet. This is a justification for why it may not let you check as often as you'd like though.
 
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Is it like .. a AI powered NSURLSessionDataTask, followed by an AI diff ??
That sounds very powerful
 
So much for ad revenue on these pages, now just html or rss will be loaded using bandwidth without any revenue, I’m sure they’ll be ways to block this so a user has to physically visit the page with all the images loading and ads. 🤔
 
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Modern websites are already struggling big time with the amount of bot traffic, having everyone's browsers refresh sites constantly and render everything on the page to check for updates would only make things worse. It could also get you mistaken for a bot and blocked at the IP level...

Daily is conservative but this is probably why it was chosen.

edit: Check daily is what it shows in the screenshot but there's an "edit" button so we don't know what the options actually are yet. This is a justification for why it may not let you check as often as you'd like though.
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Someone mentioned Apple probably only needs to check a site once for everyone choosing to monitor that site as a group, rather than checking for each person individually. Then if it sees the change, it would send notifications to them all at once. If so, then I'd think it shouldn't overwhelm the site.
 
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Someone mentioned Apple probably only needs to check a site once for everyone choosing to monitor that site as a group, rather than checking for each person individually. Then if it sees the change, it would send notifications to them all at once. If so, then I'd think it shouldn't overwhelm the site.
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Interesting idea though if requests have to be made close to the user’s geographic location (as some sites use it to personalize content, for example a weather site), times can be edited, and any arbitrary URL can be chosen to watch, I wonder how many requests it’d actually save in practice. User accounts and cookies / storage is another problem to consider with this approach.
 
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coachgq said:
first webpage monitored will be apples own refurbished page for the mac
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Which is actually kind of brilliant on their part. They can save a lot of server load by subscribing so many people to a single push notification instead of a billion page requests.
 
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I updated up the iOS 27 Beta almost 24 hours ago and my tabs have not undergone any "organization" whatsoever. Will this happen only after I get past the New Siri waitlist?
 
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