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by Darkstryder 86 days ago
As a daily Safari on iOS user, I don’t care about any of this, but since iOS 26 basic Safari features such as bookmarks and text search have become so buried deep underneath, they are basically unusable at this point.

It infuriates me a lot more than all the liquid glass stuff (on which I’m neutral overall).
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kennywinker 86 days ago
I had to double check i’m running ios 26 because none of those things have moved for me recently.

Search is where it always was (type in the search bar, scroll past the google results to the in-page results) and bookmarking is also where it’s always been (share button “add bookmark”)

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Darkstryder 86 days ago
Damn. I never knew that way to search things. I used to do « Share / Search on this page » which was already obnoxious, which has now become « … » / « Share » / « Search on this page ».

Either I’m dumb or there is a discoverability problem with all these features. Probably a bit of both.

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kennywinker 86 days ago
If you go to settings > apps > safari, and scroll to the “tabs” secttion, then turn off “compact” you get rid of the “…” button and go back to what it used to look like before.

Which is why i didn’t notice the change, as i had already set this setting to put the url back at the top an update or two ago.

And yes, definitely discoverability issues.

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spiderfarmer 86 days ago
Yes. "Add to homescreen" is in the "Share" menu.

That's where they burry all bodies.

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nozzlegear 86 days ago
Isn't that where it's been for ages?
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JimDabell 86 days ago
It’s been there since literally iPhoneOS 1.0. They are calling it “share” now, but really it’s always meant “put / send this somewhere”. The difference with recent versions of iOS is that the share button is no longer always visible but you need to press the ellipses button to reveal it. It’s there along with all the other dastardly actions Apple doesn’t want you to know about, such as “Add to Favourites”.
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fennecfoxy 85 days ago
A friend was telling me yesterday that this is how you can set custom ringtones on iOS. He seemed really excited about it, how cute.

Because I literally could not believe the archaic process previously used until very recently to set a ringtone on iOS. And now it's under the share menu?! Why do Apple people put up with this shit?

I've been able to set a custom ringtone in Android from the OS settings/any file browser app for at least 15 years and I would not be surprised if Android launched with it.

>Apple still sells 30-second song ringtones for $1.29 each through the iTunes Store app.

Oh...alright well now we know why.

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