Safari autohide toolbar ipad

[Frizzle]

I personally love it. Gets the tabs and the URL bar out of the way of whatever I am doing. And yes swiping up the page expands it again.

On my iPad Mini the swiping doesn't bring back the tabs. I just found out I have to tap the top of the screen. But sometimes it dóes, which makes my iPad unpredictable and unreliable.

Some may say that's a little thing, but by now I have about a honderd little annoying things, like the touchscreen not responding anymore in about 25% of the tapping, the 'paste'- button disappearing within a split-second, the 'paste-bar' disappearing within a split-second, the too-eager selecting of word which makes editing text like hell, and yes, all this annoying disfunction came with iOS8.

 

[XTheLancerX]

Yes. We all know and have discovered flicking up the currently viewed web page will un-hide the tab bar until you scroll down again but the point is that this new auto-hide behavior is annoying.

Apple is supposedly known for designing easy to use UI.

Is there any reason why users should be forced to spend some extra cognitive effort and do extra tap or flick just to see the tab bar?

At the very least, Apple need to make this auto-hide behavior an optional setting.

I hope Apple does NOT employ people who think "you could flick up just a little" because that may signal the end of their UI design talent.

Actually wouldn't be too surprised if they added an option to disable the autohiding. Just make sure you guys keep sending feedback to Apple! After all, they still apparently have 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3 to add features. As you may know, people have caught web traffic from 8.2 and 8.3 devices.

My reasoning is that they already have given an option to hide the tabs in the upper bar, so your tabs will be primarily in the new tab view, accessible by pinching to zoom out (when you're already zoomed all the way out on the page) or tapping the tabs button in the upper right.

So pretty much, since they have an option for something as minor as showing the tabs in that bar or not, it seems quite possible that they could implement an auto hide option.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

On my iPad Mini the swiping doesn't bring back the tabs. I just found out I have to tap the top of the screen. But sometimes it dóes, which makes my iPad unpredictable and unreliable.

Some may say that's a little thing, but by now I have about a honderd little annoying things, like the touchscreen not responding anymore in about 25% of the tapping, the 'paste'- button disappearing within a split-second, the 'paste-bar' disappearing within a split-second, the too-eager selecting of word which makes editing text like hell, and yes, all this annoying disfunction came with iOS8.

Just scrolling up doesn't usually bring the tabs back. You have to do a quick flick, scroll up just a little bit. Also make sure you take your finger off the screen as you flick, if you just scroll up quickly without removing your finger from the screen, it will not reveal the upper bar again. And I would advise at the very least a "Settings>General>Reset>Reset All Settings", possibly a full restore if all those problems are still occurring. But if the problems still persist after a full restore then you can just restore from a backup to get your stuff back.

 

[STidrvr]

Has this been fixed with the new version of ios 8 that came out? I downgraded back to 7.1.2 because of this.

 

[Bluemeanie1976]

Just download chrome. Jesus.

I tried chrome, but jeez, is there a way to get a bookmark icon on the toolbar, rather than having to go through the bloody menu?

 

[Ladybug]

I detest this new feature. What's the purpose of turning on "show favorites bar" in settings if Apple is going to hide the thing from me? I'm seriously getting irritated with Apples updates lately. Think I'll send them some feedback.

 

[Arkk]

Check out this thread. Worked for me

Check out this thread.
forums.macrumors.com/threads/1695756/"statusbarlock" from "http://kindadev.com/apt" repo.

on my iPad running iOS 8.1. Works for me. Haven't had any problems. Stops auto hide and keep tabs showing.

 

[bluebirds]

Check out this thread.
forums.macrumors.com/threads/1695756/"statusbarlock" from "http://kindadev.com/apt" repo.

on my iPad running iOS 8.1. Works for me. Haven't had any problems. Stops auto hide and keep tabs showing.

Works for me on iPad Air 2

 

[dk001]

What generation iPad do you have? I have a Retina Mini (A smaller iPad Air, has an A7 chip 1GB of RAM) and it is 100% smooth for me. Scrolling in Safari behaves exactly like it did in 7.x.x except with a toolbar that hides, and I actually like that because it was distracting because it was so enormous. Especially when you are in normal browsing mode on a dark webpage, extremely bright toolbar sticking out of a dark page, or when in private browsing, a dark toolbar sticking out of a light page.

Pages load just as fast as they did before for me as well.

32gb iPad Mini w/ Retina (gen2) LTE.
It's not hard at all to make Safari do the herky-jerky or hide-and-go-seek.
on 8.1.1

 

[ShawnBob]

On my full size Ipad, the autohide only saves a pixel or two, but now I have to scroll all the way back to the top of a webpage for my freaking "back arrow" to come back. I do pawing than my cat now.

 

[XTheLancerX]

On my full size Ipad, the autohide only saves a pixel or two, but now I have to scroll all the way back to the top of a webpage for my freaking "back arrow" to come back. I do pawing than my cat now.

You don't need to scroll all the way to the top of the page... Just do a small flick scrolling upward (let go when you do this) and the URL bar will come back. Or just touch the bar.

 

[MarcusCarpenter]

Just download chrome. Jesus.

Apples WebKit wrapped in spyware and crap that is chrome, no thanks.

 

[Sherl Raymond]

I agree.

 

[windowpain]

On my full size Ipad, the autohide only saves a pixel or two, but now I have to scroll all the way back to the top of a webpage for my freaking "back arrow" to come back. I do pawing than my cat now.

Can you not just swipe from the left to go back?