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Safari iOS 14 Guide: Privacy Report, Built-In Translation, Compromised Password Alerts and More

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Apple introduces improvements for almost all of the built-in apps with each new iteration of iOS, and iOS 14 is no exception. For Safari, Apple has added some useful new features like built-in translation and a Privacy Report that provides a rundown on all of the trackers that Safari is blocking.

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This guide includes all of the new features and tweaks you'll find in Safari 14 for iPhone and iPad.

Speed and Performance Improvements

According to Apple, Safari in iOS 14 features a "blazing-fast JavaScript engine" that makes Safari up to 2x faster than Chrome on Android.

Built-In Translation

Safari in iOS 14 has a built-in translation option that can be used to translate websites to English, Spanish, Chinese, French, German, Russian, or Brazilian Portuguese, which goes along with the new Translate app that Apple added in the update.

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Translating a webpage is as simple as visiting a webpage in a supported language and then tapping on the "aA" icon in the menu bar to bring up the translate option. Tap translate and the webpage is automatically translated into the language that your phone is set to.

Additional languages to translate to can be added in the Settings app of the iPhone, as outlined in the how to below.
Password Monitoring and Compromised Password Alerts

Safari in iOS 14 is able to monitor saved passwords, watching for passwords that have been involved in a data breach.

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To enable this feature, Safari uses cryptographic techniques to regularly check derivations of your passwords against a list of breached passwords in what Apple promises is a secure and private way. If a breach is discovered, Safari will let you know and will provide prompts for upgrading to Sign in with Apple if possible or automatically generating a new secure password.

You can see potential problems under the "Security Recommendations" heading in the Passwords section of the Settings app.

Privacy Report

Safari in iOS 14 (and macOS Big Sur) adds a Privacy Report feature that expands on Apple's Intelligent Tracking Prevention functionality. For the last several years, Apple has been working to prevent cross-site tracking, a feature that websites use to track your internet usage as you browse different sites for ad targeting, analytics, and more.

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Intelligent Tracking Prevention is Apple's description for its set of tools that block cross-site trackers in Safari, and in iOS 14, Apple lists which sites are using trackers, how many trackers those sites have installed, and the most prevalent trackers you encounter while browsing the web.

Any website that uses ads for monetization or an ad network for that same purpose will have these trackers on it, as will any site that uses analytics services like Google Analytics for collecting data on user behavior for site and content improvements.

Safari on iPhone and iPad lists the number of trackers on each site that you visit, the number of trackers Safari has prevented, the number of websites you've visited that have trackers, and a list of the most frequently seen trackers such as Google's DoubleClick.net.

You can get to the Privacy Report section in Safari by tapping on the icon that's two As next to each other and choosing the "Privacy Report" option. Note that you must have cross-site tracking prevention enabled for Privacy Report to work, and Privacy Report will prompt you to enable the feature if it's not turned on already.



Picture in Picture

In Safari on iPhone, if you're watching a video, you can now tap the Picture in Picture button to watch it in windowed mode, so you can continue browsing another website or doing something else on your iPhone while the video plays. We have more details on Picture in Picture in our Picture in Picture guide.

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Launching Websites From Search

If you type a URL like MacRumors.com in the pull down search interface on the iPhone, you can hit the "Go" button to open the website directly without having to tap a link in the search results.

Simpler Sign in with Apple

Apple made new tools for developers to allow them to translate existing web accounts to Sign in with Apple, which will hopefully make new options available to iPhone, iPad, and Mac users who want to convert existing logins to Sign in with Apple, which is more secure.

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Tracking Permission

Apps that want to track you across apps and websites to deliver personalized ads will now need to secure user permission to do so. Allow Tracking or Ask App Not to Track are two settings designed for apps, but the feature goes hand in hand with Privacy Report to keep apps from monitoring your app usage and website browsing habits.

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iPadOS 14 - Scribble Support

With an iPad running iPadOS 14, you can use the new Scribble feature with Safari to handwrite URLs, Google searches, and more, with the handwritten text then translated to typed text. For more on Scribble, make sure to check out our guide.


Use Another Browser

Not a fan of Safari? In iOS 14 you can set a different browser like Google's Chrome as the default browser that will activate when you tap links.

Other Safari Tutorials


Guide Feedback

Have questions about the new Safari features in iOS 14, know of a feature we left out, or or want to offer feedback on this guide? Send us an email here. If you want to know more about what's new in iOS 14, make sure to check out our iOS 14 roundup.

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I like the function scribble and that you can write pretty bad and it still recognizes your writing.
Sometimes it can be exhausting to figure out what I wrote so this’ll be a nice little tool. Used it a lot on my old Samsung note (wasn’t called scribble though).
 
I’ve been going through and changing ALL passwords to the random, suggested, strong passwords and then setting up 2FA wherever possible. I saw all the compromised passwords and such, and now we solid. No tow passwords the same. Lucky I don’t have to remember these anymore, though.
 
"Safari in ‌iOS 14‌ features a "blazing-fast JavaScript engine" that makes Safari up to 2x faster than Chrome on Android."

What sort of double speak, trickery, half-truthiness is that! Is it faster than Chrome on iOS or not???
 
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I really like the direction Apple is going with Safari.

In regards to the privacy report, MacRumors is the worst offender of all the websites I have gone to.

I had several password alerts one of them about my Apple ID password which was changed long ago but Safari still seems to think I should change the old password. The other password alerts were the same way
 
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sideshowuniqueuser said:
"Safari in ‌iOS 14‌ features a "blazing-fast JavaScript engine" that makes Safari up to 2x faster than Chrome on Android."

What sort of double speak, trickery, half-truthiness is that! Is it faster than Chrome on iOS or not???
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Chrome on iOS has to use safari’s rendering engine. So it’s the same on iOS.

arn
 
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That may be in part due to you visiting it the most since it’s cumulative.

See: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...that-tracks-me-the-most.2246542/post-28689449

tl;dr: Subscribe to the site to turn off ads.
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That makes sense with what I am seeing. MacRumors is showing 42 trackers in 30 days of all the websites I have visited. As to subscribing (which I have been doing), I let my membership lapier this year and haven’t gotten around to renewing. I will get that done this weekend.
 
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Use Another Browser

Not a fan of Safari? In iOS 14 you can set a different browser like Google's Chrome as the default browser that will activate when you tap links.
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Was there a legal requirement for this statement? I dont see a reason why one would use any other browser on iOS..
 
MacRumors said:
Use Another Browser

Not a fan of Safari? In iOS 14 you can set a different browser like Google's Chrome as the default browser that will activate when you tap links.
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I haven’t been able to find this setting, for any of the stock apps. Is it not activated yet?
 
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Was there a legal requirement for this statement? I dont see a reason why one would use any other browser on iOS..
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Give it a minute. Someone will eventually cry that they want to select their preferred browser when clicking on links. This handles 1 issue but queue the Spotifiers
 
I hate when people say just because other apps have to use Safari’s webkit that somehow that means they can’t be faster. The app itself may still render faster, switching between tabs and loading many images on a webpage at once might render differently. There are a lot of factors other than the internals. It’s why I use Edge for iOS or Brave for iOS over anything else. They’re better and faster in other ways...
 
I have two questions about the upcoming privacy features.

I notice the do not track option is labelled ‘Ask App Not to Track’. Does this mean it’s optional? If it is it’s going to end up a failure just like the old ‘Do not track’ option. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track

Secondly. Does the privacy report integrate with third party blockers like Wipr? So the ‘trackers prevented from profiling you’ figure includes those blocked by Wipr?
 
Not bad. Kind of like uBlock Origin for Safari. no wonder it never came out of BETA on the Mac
 
Bawstun said:
I hate when people say just because other apps have to use Safari’s webkit that somehow that means they can’t be faster. The app itself may still render faster, switching between tabs and loading many images on a webpage at once might render differently. There are a lot of factors other than the internals. It’s why I use Edge for iOS or Brave for iOS over anything else. They’re better and faster in other ways...
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I really like Edge. I think the iOS version is great. I would use Safari if Apple would go back to offering a Windows version, but since they won't do that I am stuck with using MS or the Goog.
 
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