Unpopular opinion, but this new layout is better. I don’t even remember the old layout since I’m not even a long-time iOS user (this is my first iPhone). I looked up the old layout or the “cascade” layout and it looks more painful to me than the new one. By the looks of it, it’s definitely easier to miss a tab you’re looking for in the older version, and then you will have to spend like 10 more minutes scrolling to find the tab you’re looking for. Sure, it may be “faster”, but it’s definitely harder to find the certain tab you’re looking for if most of the tabs are only viewable by a little area at the top. This app is mostly fine except for a few problems I get from time to time. Today I’m having a problem where I was trying to look at some Google images and then I tried to look at more but it was just stuck on loading. It wouldn’t even finish loading. This happened only on like 2 searches thankfully though. I’d probably give it a 95% since it has some minor lags and problems.

In my humble opinion, Safari is the underrated king among multiple web browsers on the market. I was a PC devotee from ‘95 to ‘16, since then, it’s been all Tim Cook 🍎 all the time. My only regret is not purchasing a smartphone back in ‘07 from Steve Jobs. Presently, I own an iPhone 6s Plus in rose gold (2016), iPad Mini (2016), iPad Pro (2019) & MacBook (2018) in rose gold with matching Beats By Dre headphones. All four are set up with Safari, not Chrome, TOR, Brave, Edge, or DDGo. I love the ability to quickly save favorites, add to reading list & share content to other platforms. My favorites are alphabetized for quick reference & the reading list keeps all articles & pages in chronological order for quick recall. Also, I learned Safari quickly because it’s extremely user friendly. The browser helped my navigation of Apple when switching from PC. I’ll admit, learning MacBook isn’t easy, but, Safari keeps things familiar for me on the desktop. When lost, just go back to Safari & start over. It’s surprising no one in tech media mentions Safari more often as a go to source for navigating the internet. Chrome is the reigning king of, Land Of Browsers, without an heir apparent. I nominate Safari as the prince with future king potential. Citizens of Land Of Browsers don’t like their chrome-plated dirty laundry aired, sold or tracked.

I used to use this but recently got duckduckgo and love love love it. On safari, I find it SOOOOOO aggravating when I am halfway through typing my search and it for whatever reason takes down my keyboard and erases everything I was writing, or when it takes me to google for a search and has that annoying pop-up to download google and I accidentally click it and it repeatedly takes me to the App Store to download Google EVERY TIME that I try to re-open safari. Cannot stand these things. I also do not know much about the screen time limits on here, but from what I know, there are not many options. When you turn on Screen Time limit in the Settings app, it puts screen time limits on every website on here. I appreciate screen time limits, but I wish you could choose specific sites to allow for the sake of research, or to go the opposite route and let you choose the apps you want to limit, and then have the full limits on all sites as it’s own option. I would love that for all search engines really. As a student who doesn’t have screen time until 12 PM, if I have homework in the morning and all of my websites only allow me to have one minute of time, and I couldn’t finish it all the previous night, I’m screwed. If I have access constantly to every site, including and especially speaking of socials, I am also screwed. I hate how it’s either one or the complete other. PLEASE fix these🙏

Unfortunately, I’m not lying when I say that Safari gets slower and harder to use every day. The slogan, “World’s fastest, truly private” is quite literally the opposite of what Safari is. It’s mobile optimizations are very annoying due to the fact that one swipe while scrolling an article is enough to open the window screen, click on an ad that covers almost the whole page (due to the painful optimized layout for mobile users), or even crash the entire app. That’s only one problem and it’s already enough to drive users insane. And unsurprisingly, all of the very unoptimized functions of the app have dire implications on the performance. I can’t go one day without Safari crashing when I’m watching entertainment, playing games online, or doing any other activities. One example was that the entire browser crashed because I was uploading a single .svg file in order to create an image on an editing site. I wasn’t signed in because it wasn’t something that would take long and, therefore, the crash wiped my work away. There are plenty of other issues that also could have been touched on, but I have to cut it short because I don’t have time to also explain them. Luckily, people who are just a couple generations of devices behind can always open up Safari experience a fair share of those problems.