What’s New in The Browser 1.4.6 - Smoother tab switching, address bar swipes, and transitions, with support for Reduce Motion. - YouTube videos can now open fullscreen on iPad. - Set up uBlock Origin from Add-ons in a few taps. Site access requires your approval. - Install supported extensions from Firefox Add-ons and the Chrome Web Store on iPad. - Improved cookie banner handling, including essentials-only choices on supported sites. - More reliable ad-blocking controls, including per-site settings. - A new set of app icons.

The Browser can now be your default browser Set it under Settings ▸ Apps ▸ Default Apps ▸ Browser, and links you tap in other apps open here. Sign in with a passkey now works, on sites that offer it. Signing in works properly On sites where the keyboard covered the sign-in button, the page can now scroll to reach it instead of springing back. Ask the Browser answers again It could get stuck on "Thinking…" and never come back — and once it did, every question after that was ignored too. Using AI on your device is far easier on the battery Answering a question kept the model running at full tilt long after you closed the sheet, and it did a whole answer's worth of work just to decide whether to search the web. Your saved API keys are safe The keys in Settings could show up empty, and be erased if you typed in the field. The Browser no longer asks for your location The feature that used it is gone, so the permission is gone with it. Add-ons are now off until you switch them on, and installing one asks first A page can no longer add an add-on by itself, and each add-on only reaches the sites you allow it, under Site Access. Closing a tab you weren't looking at now sticks It doesn't come back the next time you open the browser, and it goes away on your other devices too. Your history, bookmarks and saved sessions are protected if their file is ever damaged Before, a damaged file was replaced with an empty one; now the original is kept. Low-memory handling now frees background tabs properly, so pages are shut down — and go blank — far less often. A long download no longer stalls your settings from syncing between devices. Everything is lighter: launching the app, typing in the address bar, the start page, scrolling a page, downloads, and AI summaries all did far more work than they needed to.

This one is about tabs that went blank. A tab could end up showing an empty page with no way back: typing the address again did nothing, and neither did Reload. Both work now, and the Retry button on error pages works too. Tabs are also far less likely to go blank in the first place. The browser now frees up background tabs when your device is short on memory, instead of leaving iOS to shut pages down on its own. And when a page is shut down anyway, the browser reloads it properly rather than leaving it blank.

A small update, all of it fixes and polish. Tap the address bar and the whole address is now selected, so you can just start typing. No more clearing the field first. Pasting a link is now handled by iOS itself, in the bar above the keyboard, alongside Paste and AutoFill. The old in-app card is gone, so your Favourites start a row higher. Fixed a crash that some pages could trigger while cookie dialogs were being handled. Changing what you allow in Settings ▸ Add-ons ▸ Cookie Consent now applies to the tabs you already have open, not only to new ones. Changing the language now updates the whole app, including the address bar and the find bar. Permission prompts, the keyboard and the share sheet follow the next time you open it. Choosing a new app icon twice in quick succession no longer leaves your Home Screen and the logo inside the app showing different ones.

Now in 30 languages The Browser speaks your language, 30 of them, including every official language of the EU plus Basque, Catalan, Galician, Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese. It follows your device automatically. If you would rather read it in another language, pick one in Settings ▸ Language, or on the first screen when you set up. The change takes effect straight away. New icons, and the story behind the name In Danish, "the" is the old spelling of "te", tea. So this is the Tea Browser, and there are finally icons to say so: a cup, a leaf, and both together, each in all fourteen colourways. If you never chose an icon, your Home Screen will show the new one after updating. Everything else is in Settings ▸ App Icon & Logo, and anything you picked before is untouched. Cookie banners, answered properly Consent dialogs are now handled by a rules-based engine that recognises hundreds of consent platforms by name. It refuses everything that is not strictly necessary, and keeps the dialog hidden while it works. This also fixes a serious bug: the old approach could re-trigger itself as you moved around a site, until some sites stopped responding altogether. That is gone. You can decide what to allow in Settings ▸ Add-ons ▸ Cookie Consent — storage, preferences, personalised content, advertising, measurement. All of it is refused unless you say otherwise. The clock and battery are readable again The status bar now takes its colour from whatever is behind it, and keeps up as you scroll, so the time and battery stay legible on light and dark pages alike.

Stronger blocking The built-in blocker now covers around 290 ad and tracker domains, up from 87. Ad iframes were slipping through entirely — they are blocked now. New rules target how ads get served rather than only where they come from, so a network that moves to a fresh domain does not get a free pass. Fewer third parties Site icons in bookmarks, history and Quick Links now come from the sites themselves, rather than an icon service that was being told what you browse. Cookie-banner handling recognises ten more consent platforms, and still only ever rejects. Add-ons Options pages open instead of coming up blank. Extension popups now show their content. Add-ons can see your tabs, so the ones that depend on that work. A new look Twelve new app icons in an Art Series, drawn in the language of six twentieth-century movements. The glass toolbar now takes colour and light from the page behind it, and its buttons switch between light and dark so they stay readable over anything. Controls that respond Buttons now respond across their whole surface, not just the icon inside them. A navigation row has been added, and it folds into a handle while you read and returns when you scroll up. Start-page widgets snap to a grid instead of overlapping. On iPad, New Tab, the sidebar and the menu stay reachable when the address bar collapses. Reading list sync Your reading list now syncs across your devices.

New • Navigation row (iPhone). An optional layout that keeps back, forward, new tab and your tabs along the bottom, with the address bar on top. Turn it on in Settings ▸ Layout. • Ask The Browser now suggests follow-up questions after each answer — tap one to keep going. Improved • The page menu is far less crowded. Related actions are grouped into labelled rows, and the start page no longer lists actions that need a loaded page. • Ask The Browser: the keyboard gets out of the way so you can read the whole answer — swipe down over the answer, or tap Done. • The "…" menu gathers Devices, your tabs and a new private tab into a single row. Fixed • Content blocking: switching the blocker off and back on left it inactive until you restarted the app. It now takes effect immediately, and changing your blocking settings applies to pages you already have open. • Request Desktop Site now actually loads the desktop version of a site. On iPad you can request the mobile version too.

What's New in v1.1 Meet Ask the Browser A built-in AI assistant that searches the web and reads the page you're on, then answers with tappable source citations. Ask follow-ups - it's a real conversation, and answers stream in live. More app icons to choose from Two new looks - Dot Matrix and Facets - in multiple colors each. Your pick also becomes your in-app brand mark. Import and export, from any browser Bring over your bookmarks, history, and passwords from any other browser - or take yours with you. Password manager Save your logins securely and autofill them next time. iCloud sync Bookmarks, favorites, and settings now sync across your devices. Hand off an open tab from one device to another. Also new - Friendlier first-time setup that walks through the browser's best features - Swipe the address bar to switch tabs - Smarter address bar autocomplete, built on a list of the top 50,000 sites from Million-Majestic Improvements - Ask the Browser now reads more sources per answer for richer results - Added new search providers for broader results - More reliable AI responses on-device Fixes - Private tabs kept as private - Ad blocking now allows you to use your own list - Fixed a background crash and several other stability issues - Fixed Light/Dark mode - Fixed links that should open in a new tab - Fixed a crash when sites request camera access Thanks for using The Browser - more coming soon!