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New Safari Look And Features on Apple iOS 15

There a lot of exciting new features coming to Safari with iOS 15 and iPadOS 15. Safari is the browser of choice for many iOS users, and it’s not hard to see why.

 

There are a lot of exciting new features coming to Safari with iOS 15 and iPadOS 15. Safari is the browser of choice for many iOS users, and it’s not hard to see why. One of the major changes arriving with iOS 15 is a totally redesigned Safari. The all-new browser aims to make it easier to use with one hand as it shifts the search/tab bar to the bottom. The new safari comes with customizable Tab Groups, a new start page, and more. Let’s dive into how the new Safari in iOS 15 works.

The new Safari is coming to iPhone, iPad, as well as Mac with macOS Monterey. Apple says two of its goals with the new Safari in iOS 15 were making “controls easier to reach with one hand” and putting “content front and center.”

New Safari Features in iOS 15


Brand New Elegant Design

Safari started out with a new floating tab design that moved the address bar and tabs to the bottom of the iPhone interface, but now the design change is optional. The new tab bar is small and light floats at the bottom of the display.

  • You’ll immediately notice the new URL/search/tab bar at the bottom of Safari (follow along here for how to revert to a top address/search bar).
  • As you swipe on a webpage, the tab bar minimizes into the bottom of the app
  • Swipe back up or tap at the bottom to make the tab bar reappear
  • Tap the reload button or pull down from the top of many websites to refresh pages
  • To navigate to a different website or start a new search, tap a website’s URL, swipe up on the Tab Bar > tap +, or swipe on the search bar of your last open tab from right to left

Swipe between Safari tabs

New Safari Look And Features on Apple iOS 15
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  • Swipe from right to left on the Tab Bar, you’ll open a new Start Page.
  • Seamlessly swipe between multiple Safari tabs by swiping left and right on the Tab Bar

Open Tab Groups


Tab Groups will allow users to save tabs and easily access them from any iPhone, iPad, or Mac device.

  • Access Safari Tabs by either tapping the double square icon or simply swiping up on the Tab Bar
  • You can search Tabs at the top, press/hold + drag Tabs to rearrange them
  • Add a new Tab in the bottom left with the + icon, or tab Tabs in the bottom middle to customize Tab Groups
  • Tap a Tab or choose Done in the bottom right corner to leave the Tab view
  • Another change here is the X to close out Tabs has moved from the top left to the top right

Tabs in ‌iOS 15‌ can be saved into Tab Groups, which offers a way to preserve a set of tabs you have open without having to have those tabs active. If you are doing research you can save the tabs as a “research” group.

Website Tinting

Available in the Settings app, Allow Website Tinting matches the collapsed Safari address bar interface to the website’s colors to make it blend in better with the background.

Customize Background Image

iOS 15 will allow users to add background images to the start page, making for a more personalized browsing experience.

New Safari Look And Features on Apple iOS 15
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Extensions

Another handy change coming to Safari for iOS 15/iPadOS 15 is support for extensions. We’ll likely start to see developers build early support for this over the summer and many will be ready to go for the public launch in the fall.

Copy Text Safari Feature (Live Text)

With ‌iOS 15‌, iPhones and iPads are able to use a new Live Text feature to detect text in any image, and this includes images that you find in Safari.

New Safari Look And Features on Apple iOS 15
Any Safari image that contains text can be selected, copied, pasted, and translated. To use Live Text in Safari, long press on any image and then tap on “Show Text”. From there, you can select the text and interact with it like any other text on an ‌iPhone‌.

iCloud Relay

This new iOS 15 feature will be available for all iCloud users who pay for storage. Apple will relay all your browsing requests through its own servers, where they are stripped of your IP address, location, etc. so that your ISP cannot profile you based on your browsing habits. ‌iCloud‌ Private Relay sends all web traffic to a server that is maintained by Apple where information like IP address is stripped. Once the info is removed, the traffic (your DNS request) is sent to a secondary server that’s maintained by a third-party company, where it is assigned a temporary IP address, and then the traffic is sent on to its destination.

Safari Https Browsing


According to Apple, in iOS 15, Safari will automatically upgrade sites to support HTTPS from insecure HTTP. That’s a huge plus on the security side for many users, but there’s more.


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