I despise when a link opens the app instead of the site yet Apple still gives you no option to control it.
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Safari in iOS 26: Everything New From Design to Privacy
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Does any one know how to stop webpages bookmarked on home screen from acting as a web app? It’s really annoying it offers no advantage and you loose certain browser features. I just want a bookmark on my desktop any one know how to do it?
Did they fix the mess that is iCloud tabs, favorites, favorites bar, tab groups, tab group favorites, profiles, …
Also, where are do I look for additional functionality? The share sheet icons, the share sheet list, the extension menu, the third party buttons (but only on iPadOS and macOS)?
Why is this so convoluted?
Also, where are do I look for additional functionality? The share sheet icons, the share sheet list, the extension menu, the third party buttons (but only on iPadOS and macOS)?
Why is this so convoluted?
How about making Safari compatible with more web sites. I still routinely try to use Safari and it does not work.
There was a time when Safari worked better with Windows designed websites than Internet Explorer, then Apple got successful, big headed, arrogant, and lost sight of its users experience. Now Apple thinks that all websites should be designed around Apple's Safari. But today Google rules the web and Apple thinks, erroneously, that they can, with their 15% of global Safari use, rule the web. How short sighted and arrogant.
There was a time when Safari worked better with Windows designed websites than Internet Explorer, then Apple got successful, big headed, arrogant, and lost sight of its users experience. Now Apple thinks that all websites should be designed around Apple's Safari. But today Google rules the web and Apple thinks, erroneously, that they can, with their 15% of global Safari use, rule the web. How short sighted and arrogant.
Yeah and then over loaded buttons. Long press, submenus similar menus i still struggle to find where close tabs is. Tab ordering is a nightmare as well
This. Regardless of if the floating part is at the top or at the bottom it can obstruct important parts of the page, including clickable page elements impossible to scroll by and uncover if they are at the very top or very bottom of a page. what's the user supposed to do if that happens?
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Is there a quick selection in Safari from iOS 26 to delete the cookies and data?
I find it annoying that you always have to go so deep into the settings.
I find it annoying that you always have to go so deep into the settings.
> All classical (boomer) games: chess, go, poker, yu gi oh...
Well, Yu-Gi-Oh is like 25 yr old now, which is "boomer" for most teens (typical younger/boomer divide: +/- 4yr). In my part of Europe, we saw a great shift of Magic players (all ages) to Yu-Gi-Oh, so at least it's a classic!
Also that you have to wait a while each time for the list of domains to populate.
The youngest boomers (i.e. not gen X or later) were 35 when Yu-Gi-Oh! launched in Japan, and are now in their sixties. I don’t know about now, but originally Yu-Gi-Oh! was more of a gen Y-Z thing.
The liquid glass design, transparencies, and blue-green hues remind me a lot of Windows Vista, which I was one of the few to appreciate (I can still never understand all the criticism it received; as far as I'm concerned, it was great, looked modern, and worked pretty well, maybe because I used it on a new, reasonably powerful computer).
Yu-gi-oh is definitely not boomer-era. Not even gen X. More like gen Y. As for chess, poker, and go, they're age-old games that aren't specific to a particular generation.
The version of macOS safari with the redesigned tab bar that existed briefly a few years ago before being pulled and reverted back to the classic tab design was the best one ever. (It was the version that first introduced compact tabs, but originally also had a totally new design for full-sized tabs)
There were some bugs and issues with the “new” design, but also a lot of advantages. I loved it. I never understood why they pulled it rather than fix it and/or make it optional.
All “real” poker sites use a downloadable app, in my experience. They’re not like Chess.com where you can just play directly on the website. Presumably this is for security reasons (detection of bots, etc).
Well said, 100% agree. Presumably the controls still collapse/disappear when you scroll down the same way they do now, though? So they shouldn’t obstruct any more content?
And presumably there’ll be an option to reduce the transparency/increase contrast of “liquid glass” controls. It looks like a huge fail for readability/accessibility otherwise.
Is this all change for the sake of change, with no really usability improvements?
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Does anyone actually keep the address bar at the bottom?
I have this issue too, but I suspect it just runs out of memory on particularly bloated, complex websites rather than “crashing” per-se. New iPhone models coming out with more RAM should fix/reduce this.
I’ve always used it at the bottom.
Seems silly and backwards to put the address bar at the top on a large screen device, where it’s much more awkward to reach with your fingers. And conflicts with the part of the screen where notifications appear, etc.