Apples new Safari design is just terrible, and everyone is going wild about it.
That sounds great, but wait until you hear what you have to give up in return.
Apple is sure to take in the customer response and work on bettering the experience."
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Take a look at the net web client youre reading this article in right now.
It probably looks like this:
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Its easy to read, parse, and understand.
Compare that to Safari in the early iPadOS 15 betas:
Oof.
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Apple has combined everything into one row.
Nothing is ever in the same place, so it’s impossible to navigate by “muscle memory.”
Instead, you must look up and search for the tab you want, every single time.
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Usability-wise, its a nightmare.
And it gets worse.
Apple also removed all the buttons you might use while browsing.
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The reload button, the forward and back arrows, and even the share arrow are all gone.
To find them, you have to tap a tiny ellipses icon.
And we mean tinyeven on the large 12.9-inch iPad, the circle containing the three dots is absurdly small.
You have to tap another Share icon to reveal it.
People will not settle for a version of Safari that doesnt make using it efficient or easy.
And thats still not the end of the pain.
On the iPhone, the tab situation has actually improved.
Good Tabs
There are some good changes, though.
One is Tab Groups, which are essentially folders for tabs, only smarter.
Tapping a tab group switches to that group, and closes the current one.
You could already group tabs into folders, but this is different.
Tab Groups are more like separate windows, in that they update themselves.
Hopefully, these will undo all the bad changes, and just leave the good.
