Safari in iOS 26: Everything New From Design to Privacy

[Parowdy]

All these bells and whistles hide the fact that there's really very little new innovation or improvement to the system.

Exactly. There are still legitimately good tools to be added to iOS, like per app volume controls, a universal back swipe gesture (like on OnePlus phones), more than just a long press option for the action button and many more.
This year feels like a new coat of paint on the same old rust beneath. And because they introduced this system side redesign, they will have even less time to actually fix things before figuring out how all of this is supposed to look like in the end in September. Wrong move. Another year of missing features AND UI problems, I’m calling it right now.

 

[Parowdy]

Just drag the address bar up to reveal open tabs or swipe it side to side to move through tabs.

Right? Doesn’t seem anything has changed in that regard, I haven’t noticed anything majorly different to how it is in iOS 18.

 

[Jeeve Stubbs]

You didn’t understand the criticism?

I had a job where I had a windows vista machine in the 00s.

I was copying some art assets from a network drive - honestly, nothing too heavy, just some web optimised psds and JPEG’s - and it told me that it was going to take 6 hours.

Trust me, the time estimate for what I was copying over, was bonkers.

And it only took a few minutes in the end.

Maybe. I'm not saying nobody had any issue with it, but personally it just worked very fine for my day-to-day stuff and games. When 7 arrived, people were glad and said it was "so much better" than Vista, but then again, I could hardly tell the difference. The only Windows I had some issues with was '98 (my first PC), a somewhat unstable system. I skipped ME and 8. The rest (XP, Vista, 7, 10, and now 11) were all great.

 

[Starfia]

Looking forward to the Web App controls being in the user's hand. There's some sites that implement the code to tell iOS to be a web app that I'd rather use as a bookmark on the Home Screen while others that don't implement that code that I would rather use as a web app.

Yeah. "Web pages" and "Web apps" are philosophically two different things, so I've liked that developers can sort of define to browsers which they've considered themselves to be making. But just letting the user decide which they like better anyway? Why the heck not?

 

[bluecoast]

Maybe. I'm not saying nobody had any issue with it, but personally it just worked very fine for my day-to-day stuff and games. When 7 arrived, people were glad and said it was "so much better" than Vista, but then again, I could hardly tell the difference. The only Windows I had some issues with was '98 (my first PC), a somewhat unstable system. I skipped ME and 8. The rest (XP, Vista, 7, 10, and now 11) were all great.

7 was very solid and I did have a soft spot for windows 2000 - it was a stable windows 95/98. And wow I had totally forgotten about windows me.

I’m not sure where Microsoft is going with 11. It just seems to be in a perpetually half finished state. I know that software is never finished but they never took the tarp off 11