[throwaheyy]

This is very annoying. In Safari, clicking icons in that style of nav bar instead brings up the browser’s back/forward buttons, and requires a 2nd click in a new location now that the nav bar has been offset by the height of the back/forward buttons.

[jojo_]

Conspiracy theorist's take: Apple intentionally requires a second click to decrease ad clicks. Given the bottom anchor ad is a very popular ad format, this feature is negatively affecting most publishers. Advertising platforms like Google already implement two-clicks penalty as a safeguard for advertisers.

In USA, Safari accounts for one-third of total mobile traffic, and mobile traffic itself makes up two-thirds of total traffic.

This seemingly small feature is single-handedly wiping out billions of dollars in revenue for publishers... and Google.

[vxNsr]

Yea, this is something I find annoying… I wonder what the solution is? Increasing the height of the bottom menu? Moving it a little higher and just wasting some of that vertical space?

[sublinear]

> I wonder what the solution is?

Not using Safari is an excellent solution.

[smaccona]

Yes, but as a designer/developer, it would be useful to know if there’s a CSS/HTML/Javascript solution when your target audience includes a significant number of iOS users who will use the default browser on their device, namely Safari.

[rerdavies]

Always put a 48px margin on the bottom of your nav bar. :-/ Android has the same problem when you choose to use the gesture interface for navigation.

[vxNsr]

Between chrome, firefox and safari, I choose safari every time, because navigation is soooo much nicer, I can very easily switch between tabs in safari compared to literally every other browser. flipping back and forth between two tabs in safari is the same as swiping to another app, which in all the other browsers you need to open the tab menu and find the other tab