Questions tagged [mobile-safari]
This tag is for questions relating solely to Safari installed on iOS devices. Questions regarding the desktop version of Safari should use the relevant tag: [safari] for macOS and [safari-windows] for Windows.
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Mobile Safari lost all the bookmarked favorite icons
This iPhone I work with just lost all its favorite icons for the bookmarks on the new tab page. I have no idea what I did or how this came about. Is there a way to restore them without deleting and ...
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Duplicated Tab Groups in Safari on all Devices
From time to time safari seems to duplicate tabgroups. Can't tell why and when. Could be caused by update or whatever. They may even be tripled, quadruple or more.
Seems that I am not the only one, ...
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Does a PWA created in Private Browsing mode always open in Private Browsing?
Scenario: I log into Twitter in a mobile Safari Private Browsing tab with Advanced Tracking and Fingerprinting Protection enabled, then create a PWA (i.e., Add to Home Screen) of the private tab.
When ...
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Safari on iPhone says I have 10 tabs open when I have none open
I’ve been trying to work out why Safari on my iPhone is saying I have 10 tabs open when I have none.
I clear the history for the last hour and close all tabs in the same window, however a few minutes ...
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Why are some MP4 H264 videos not playable on Safari iPhone? [duplicate]
Note: good answer on SO: MP4 video not playing on Safari iPhone.
In a blog post, I have a video embedded with <video><source src="..." that works for everyone (Firefox, Chrome, at ...
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Clear cache but NOT the cookies in mobile Safari
How does one only clear the cache in mobile Safari while leaving the cookies untouched? The only method I know clears both.
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Given an URL that opens an iOS app, how do I make that into a functional icon on the iOS home screen?
Like many former Mint users who had to transition to Credit Karma, I am frustrated by how many steps it takes to get to the data I want to see. Recently Credit Karma sent me a promotional e-mail with ...
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Remove link from Safari home page on iPad
I have an iPad and also a desktop computer, creatively named "John iMac 2017". When I open up Safari on the iPad, the homepage has a section "From John iMac 2017" which includes a ...
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How to always Show IP Address (disable Private Relay) for a specific website?
I want to use my iPad & iPhone to access a website that is behind a firewall and is only accessible to IP addresses on a whitelist.
I can do this temporarily, for a single tab only, by:
Load the ...
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DNS works differently in Private Browsing on iOS 17
Since upgrading to iOS 17, I've noticed I'm no longer able to visit my home server from my home network when in Private Browsing Mode in Safari.
I'm fairly sure that the issue is that Safari is doing ...
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Cannot login on ChatGPT mobile website (chat.openai.com) on iOS 14/iPadOS 14
I used to use the mobile site (chat.open.com) just fine. However, starting from two weeks ago, all the browsers on my iPhone (iOS 14) and iPad (iPadOS 14) cannot log into my chatGPT account ...
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Privacy settings do not allow shortcut to load external web content
Since updating to iOS 17, some of my Shortcuts fail to work on some web pages in Safari (only). For example I have a shortcut to use Mail to send the current webpage to me, but now on about have the ...
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Files app has some screenshots from Safari that wasn’t screenshot
I have an iPhone 11 with the latest update and everything. But recently I noticed in my Files, there are several long screenshots from some sites I frequent, specifically comic websites and art ...
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Safari's frequently visited sites: showing never visited sites, which appear again and again after deletion
I dislike the frequently visited sites feature when I can't purge a site I feel shouldn't have space in the list.
There is a shop's web site I visited once. Now this shop continues to be listed as a ...
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What are the consequences of disabling the experimental feature NSURLSession WebSocket in Safari?
I was told to disable the NSURLSession Websocket experimental feature to work around a claimed Safari bug. Doing so did solve my problem, but I want to make sure it doesn't have any unintended ...
