Following the instructions to set this up, I picked Yahoo as the search engine to replace with Kagi, since I never use it. Well, guess who constantly searches on Yahoo instead of Kagi now, because it randomly reverts to it. Thanks for hilariously worsening my experience of using this expensive search service, which I am paying money for, on mobile.
It’s unfortunate that this is required- it would be great if Apple would work with Kagi to not require this extra step. However, the plugin works great and is very fast. I’ve used it for months now without a single issue. I just wish it wasn’t required.
I love Kagi search on my laptop computer. But the wonky way it works here is too slow and unreliable. I search in Safari, I get answers (from Google), I click on them, and then 20 seconds later, Kagi interrupts that with its own search results. That's worse than not having it at all, and I will be uninstalling it. What I really want is a standalone app experience, sort of like the Google search app. Then I'd stop searching in Safari and use that instead.
Give Kagi a whirl. I am very pleased to pay a nominal fee for my family to have access to safer search made for humans to use (not to use humans). Thoughtful use of AI. Ad free. Tracker free. It is much more peaceful in terms of the noise when searching the web.
The extension is a difficult implementation to get your searches routed in Safari. Take a moment to ask Apple to add Kagi as a default search option in Safari. Also take a look at Orion Browser on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS-it’s a neat browser-fast-like a beefed up Safari.
If you're having issues with the app not working whatsoever, install the Apple TestFlight app. There is a dev preview of an upcoming update that fixes the problem. The link can be found from Kagi's changelog on their site (you might see a notification bell on the search page). To quote the log: "Kagi Search for Safari update If you are using Safari with iOS developer beta (17.5), Kagi Search for Safariextension may have stopped working due to a bug introduced in this iOS release last week. We have released a TestFlight version of the new version that should work. We are planning to release it to app store as soon as we get positive verification from users. It may help long term if you took a second and sent feedback to Apple to consider including Kagi as a search engine choice in Safari. Thank you 🙏"
I tried installing it, but it does not show up as a possible Safari extension, so I could not enable it. I gather that Safari has changed the way extensions work, so when I am prepared to take my damage points, I'll upgrade my Mac and try again.
Became a paid user a few months ago and finally installed it on my phone
Onboarding is a little rough, but it’s gotten a lot better. I don’t have any problems with the extension working ever, and getting my spouse signed up was so much better this last time. Thank you for continuing to improve this app!
On some devices the extension redirects to Kagi some of the time. On some the extension redirects to Kagi even when I don’t want it to. So it’s a mix of unreliable and over aggressive.
I can’t work out how to troubleshoot this. I wish they spent less time on weird AI experiments and more time getting the fundamentals right. And I know they have their own competing browser but giving up all the integrations of Safari because they can’t make their extension work right feels exhausting.
I pay for Kagi and love my search results. When I use Kagi on my laptop, that is.
I have followed the directions to enable Kagi as an extension on Safari, but it simply doesn’t work. This is frustrating, since I pay for Kagi and it works well in the web version.
Unless Kagi finds a workaround, I’ll probably stop paying for it altogether and just use Safari on my iPhone and laptop.
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