Fixes a flicker on news sites when scrolling on a phone. A scrolling finger that happened to start on a video was being treated as a tap on it, so the video could start playing under your finger — and, with a second autoplay blocker installed, strobe its poster and play button as the two fought over it. Scrolling now never counts as a tap; tapping a play button still works.

Still now stops the animations that scripts draw frame by frame. Text and images that zoom, slide or fade into place as a page loads — and the scroll-driven effects on modern marketing sites — simply appear in their final position instead of moving there. Animations hidden inside web components are covered too, along with animations a page starts long after it has loaded, like a menu or dialog that slides closed. Videos stay paused more reliably. Players that kept trying to restart themselves could flicker rapidly; Still now refuses the playback up front, so the video sits still until you press play.

Still now freezes chart fill-in animations inside web components (shadow DOM) — like the animated pay-breakdown pie chart on ADP payroll sites. Charts appear fully drawn instead of sweeping into view.

Still 1.5 adds a whole new class of motion blocking and a calmer, smoother engine. NEW — Canvas animation blocking • WebGL shader backdrops and generative-art animations (the full-page motion behind many modern site heroes) are now detected by watching how often a canvas repaints, then frozen on a still frame • Static canvas content — charts, one-shot renders — is never touched • Canvas apps you click or type into (games, maps, drawing tools) stay fully interactive Broader coverage • Animations inside embedded frames (ads, social embeds) are now blocked with the same rules as the main page • Now detects animated APNGs served with a .png extension, animated AVIFs, and animated SVGs loaded as images — without hiding ordinary static images while checking • Uppercase file extensions and srcset/picture sources can no longer slip an animation past the early hide Calmer and smoother • Replacing an animation no longer shifts page layout — no more scroll jumps when a placeholder lands • Fixed charts and icons briefly blinking while scrolling on script-heavy sites • Videos you start yourself are no longer re-paused mid-watch; autoplay stays stopped • Faster page scans with less network and CPU work As always: Still runs entirely on-device. No data is collected, transmitted, or stored.

• Stops the spinning 3D product previews on Google Shopping search results. These silently auto-rotating product cards bypass Safari's autoplay control because they ship as muted, inline videos rather than animated images — Still now blocks them at the network and DOM layers. • Even on long, fast-scrolling result pages, product spinners are caught the moment they appear. A previous timing window briefly let cards play before being blocked; the new defense gates on the video URL itself, so there's no race. • Polish: blocked video previews are now fully removed from page layout, eliminating a case where the browser kept rendering frames on a "hidden" video element and leaving subtle motion visible.

• Catches more animated GIFs on news sites that previously slipped through — including image-proxy URLs (axios.com) and cross-origin CDN images (newyorker.com). • Stops the hero "curtain bar" sweep on president.mit.edu and similar jQuery-driven page-load flourishes. • Adds a per-site rule pack: sites with known animation patterns get tailored protection. • iOS fix: the SVG chart-reveal protection (used for Fidelity-style pie charts) is now actually included in the iOS build — it had been missing from previous releases due to a packaging bug.

• CSS animations now cancel at document_start — less motion flash before the page finishes loading. • Fix: pages using WordPress-style fade-in reveal patterns no longer get stuck invisible at opacity:0. • Freezes late-arriving animations (D3-style chart reveals, e.g. Fidelity pie charts). • Fewer false positives on lazy-load placeholder GIFs (macrumors.com and similar). • Handles extensionless URLs that serve animated GIFs. • SVG geometry animation patch moved earlier and narrowed — catches more, breaks less. • Animation overrides scoped to html/body so page transforms aren't broken.

Fixed a bug where animated GIFs on some websites (including newyorker.com) could bypass detection and continue playing. Lazy-loaded and initially hidden images are now correctly identified and frozen.