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.
The cascade mode in safari was perfect just like it was and know with this knee update it’s very difficult to read and understand the search. When it first appeared in my safari I thought I had pressed something accidentally and passed the next 35 minutes trying to turn it back to its original version thinking it was my mistake. When I searched in the internet and with a little effort I finally notice it wasn’t me. It was the knew update they made to safari that in my point of view it is truly unnecessary. I started reading the comenta about the knew updated and I can’t be more in favor of them. This update isn’t helping us in anything and in my personal opinion with the miopia I have it makes every even more difficult to me and to many other people even if they don’t have view problems I have read their comments and they can’t be more right so truly safari needs and knew update but this time to bring the cascade mode back or to at least give us the option to choose which one we want to use because it may be useful on a iPad or laptop but for our iPhone it it very difficult to work with it so please safari needs the cascade mode back.
The new GRID view for tabs is horrible and counterintuitive. It’s a big step backwards. The former stacked/cascade view allowed users to browse dozens of tabs in a single view quickly and without needing to scroll much. Swiping tabs closed or pressing the x in the upper right corner was effortless. I barely needed to move my thumb. Now I see microscopic little tabs in a grid layout that shows maybe 6 tabs open at best. Then one must scroll endlessly through a dizzying array of little rectangles while trying to distinguish the barely visible print. It’s very hard on the eyes. The ability to see the full pages are pointless anyway since the text is too small to read in grid view. Also, closing specific tabs now requires excessive hand gymnastics over all parts of the screen. You need to squint to find the tabs you don’t want and then stretch your fingers to wherever they are, making sure you aim carefully to click the tiny X. This is especially cumbersome if using your phone one-handed. This grid layout feature might work on a large iPad but is definitely not smart for a cell phone. I heard Firefox might still allow the cascade view. Will be downloading that next.
I have to say, yes, it’s a somewhat useful app. But when I try to search things up, it’s very hard to find what I’m looking for. The tabs are really confusing and half the things I search up are glitchy. At first I checked the internet but it’s just the app. I must say I have to give it 2 stars. Even google works better than Safari is what I have found out. But results are not what I’m looking for, pages are glitchy and confusing and websites are just awful. I tried getting into one multiple times but it glitched and kicked me out. I keep my rating 2 stars until Apple can hopefully update Safari back to its useful meaning.
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I really hope you fix this soon because I don’t want to delete this app that I used to trust into some other app that I don’t know anything about, which would be just as painful as Safari is now. Please, Apple, fix this. Its also useful for me to get music and now I can’t which is really frustrating and a headache, because I like to listen to music when I sleep. And I don’t have any other app that lets me listen to music. So please don’t get rid of it, just fix it back to the way it was.
It is so frustrating that things get switched and changed that don’t need to be. I tried to move a tab up next to a bunch of other similar tabs the same way I always have (hold, move it up, release). Nothing happened but it brought up an organize button. I though it would give me options such as “move” tab. No. It reorganized my tabs alphabetically. I have about a hundred tabs open and now I can’t find anything. There’s no way to search for a tab, and so I am left trying to scroll through alphabetically, guessing what the title was of each page that I had open, because I went off the visual pictures, not off the names. I was in the middle of doing research for a purchase, and now it’s a moot point that will need to be started over again because it is not worth it to scroll through 100 different pages, and scroll up and down to compare pages that were already open. But I have to do the research all over again to find those pages in the first place. This is really frustrating and unhelpful. It was also a completely unnecessary change.
I’m always suspicious of the 5 star reviews on any Apple app these days. I guess it’s possible there are real people who like all the new features in Safari iOS 15. I’m not one. I don’t need any of the changes to Safari and would really like to be able to option out of this redesign. Of course, this is Apple, so you can’t . Just like the terrible Apple Podcast app redesign in 2017, there is no going back. Apple doesn’t listen to the casual user. They only hear the people who want a million twitching screens and icons because of course they do, and screw the rest of us who just want a simple intuitive interface and design.
Hey Apple, your products are used by a variety of people. Most do not work in the tech industry. Please stop designing for elite tech heads - or if you must, please let the rest of us option out of all that useless garbage so we can just surf the web in peace. Give the end user the option to NOT engage the new features as many of us have no use for a lot of them. They twitch and dance and get ignored as best we can, but better if they could be turned off.
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