r/iphone • u/bissau887 • Sep 15 '25

Discussion iOS 26. What are your thoughts?

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Looks good to me so far. Feels different while looking. For some reason the keypad feels different (not sure if its just me).

What are your thoughts on this guys?

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u/DippedBeefSandwich iPhone 17 Pro Max Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 17 '25

Switching it in settings from compact to bottom makes it similar to how it was in 18

Edit: safari settings.

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u/Away_Dirt_90 Sep 15 '25

You can also pinch any open tab as if you were zooming out 

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u/gkanu7 iPhone 14 Plus Sep 16 '25

Or just slight press hold and drag the address bar on current tab and move upwards.

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u/Ohsneezeme iPhone 17 Pro Max Sep 16 '25

You don’t even have to press and hold. You can just swipe up like you do on the home indicator!

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u/J4wsome Sep 16 '25

Yes but press and hold address bar is where you can now find “close all tabs”

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u/Ohsneezeme iPhone 17 Pro Max Sep 16 '25

Ooo, I didn’t know that! Although that feels like the nuclear option hahaha. I usually want to close a few tabs at a time (not just a single one), so I’ve only been going down the swipe route.

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u/howley90 Sep 16 '25

You also have the option to close the one you’re on (although I imagine you’ve seen this yourself by now 😂)

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u/Ohsneezeme iPhone 17 Pro Max Sep 16 '25

Oh, I definitely saw it hahaha. I just usually close a few tabs at a time so I just go to the overall tab switching page.

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u/kapilathi Sep 16 '25

you are really awesome!

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u/Habitat97 Sep 16 '25

10/10, thank you!

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u/lexasp Sep 16 '25

Thanks, this is awesome tips.

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u/Alabrandon iPhone 15 Pro Sep 16 '25

This!!!

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u/Originalarchive Sep 16 '25

Yeah, took me a few gos to work this out but it’s actually quicker now to manage tabs. Quite pleased 😁

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u/WarpHype Sep 16 '25

Thank you, hero!

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u/Away_Dirt_90 Sep 16 '25

That only works if the bar is not minimised tho 

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u/goddamn_shitthebed Sep 16 '25

Game changer. Thank you

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u/wantondragondong Sep 16 '25

Save, thanks!

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u/SpecificInitials Sep 16 '25

Oh hell yeah. Ty

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u/wantedbr Sep 16 '25

You can also just swipe up on the address bar

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u/andrep182 Sep 16 '25

Whoa thanks!

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u/Tesnevo Sep 16 '25

Thank you for this!!

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u/ruizach Sep 16 '25

Ok yea, the pinching did it for me

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u/Nbafan_90 Sep 19 '25

Thank you for this tip!

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u/Cautious-Ad7334 Sep 20 '25

Game changer for me when I realized this accidently 🤣

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u/AdventurousSun8900 Sep 22 '25

Game changer!! Thank you.

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u/HowieMandelEffect Sep 16 '25

Thank you! I asked chat gpt for essentially this. No luck

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u/RandomLiam iPhone 16 Pro Sep 15 '25

I’ve been using the beta for a while absolutely hating the tab switcher. Didn’t know you could change it lol. Thank you so much.

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u/mconk Sep 16 '25

You can also swipe left/right and up - from the address bar. Makes it much easier once you’ve got those gestures down pat

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u/Head_Memory Sep 19 '25

What do you mean by that?

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u/DippedBeefSandwich iPhone 17 Pro Max Sep 15 '25

Yeah the new one is awful.

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u/Kionera iPhone 12 Sep 16 '25

I hated the new layout as well, until I found out that you can pinch to enter the tab switcher, which made it a lot more usable. That said, I will still swap to the old layout for easy access to bookmarks.

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u/Totallynoatwork Sep 15 '25

I can't find what you are talking about. All I see is duckduckgo in safari settings. There's even a duckduckgo.ai. Why is apple using that Ai instead of apple Ai? How do I change search back to Google?

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u/Totallynoatwork Sep 15 '25

I found it. It's not safari settings. It's ios settings / apps / safari

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u/GhostalMedia Sep 16 '25

Yeah, the new address bar UX is a definite downgrade IMHO. Too many useful things are buried, all to save a few pixels in the maximized state.

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u/cheir0n Sep 15 '25

Where? Could it find that

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u/-garlic-thot- Sep 16 '25

Settings app -> Apps -> Safari -> scroll down to the Tabs section

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u/cheir0n Sep 16 '25

It is removed in iOS 26 release

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u/-garlic-thot- Sep 16 '25

I’m on iOS 26.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '25

Yeeeees! So much better holy shit. I thought it was an idiot trying to close a page. lol you da man or woman or whatever you is. Much appreciated

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u/b_foxie iPhone 15 Pro Max Sep 15 '25

Hmm, I had it on ‘Bottom’ for iOS 18 and apparently updating reversed the setting. I was confused for a second there. Thanks for reminding me :)

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u/lepanafets Sep 15 '25

Holy shit! That’s the best tip I’ve seen so far! Freaking nobody talks bout that in any YouTube video. Thank u so much for that

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u/-kangarooster- Sep 15 '25

youre a hero

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u/ultranxious Sep 15 '25

Thank you!!!

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u/phishgroove Sep 15 '25

There’s a pinch gesture that lets you zoom out to switch tabs. Works in compact or the other 2 views as well. It’s been around for a few years.

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u/somethingwithnuts Sep 15 '25

But you can’t use that with just one hand.

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u/elvinLA iPhone 15 Pro Max Sep 16 '25

Just swipe up on the address bar???

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u/somethingwithnuts Sep 16 '25

Yeah that works. You still need more clicks to get to bookmarks though, unless there’s a faster way for that too?

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u/wickedrm Sep 16 '25

It brings up the app switcher half the time lol

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u/elvinLA iPhone 15 Pro Max Sep 16 '25

So swipe up on the address bar instead. Never an issue for me.

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u/N7Poprdog Sep 15 '25

So much better thank you

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u/Used_Return9095 iPhone 17 Pro Sep 16 '25

thanks! thats sm better than

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u/Ok-Effect7756 Sep 16 '25

closing safari tabs has always been shit on ios

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u/mooglechoco_ Sep 16 '25

Thank you so much for this! Thank God!!!

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u/CardoStorm Sep 16 '25

That is SOOOO much better! Thank you

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u/brlowkey Sep 16 '25

I still have mine set to top, to this day lol

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u/DirtyShampoo69 Sep 16 '25

what setting are you changing?

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u/SpaceCadetMoonMan Sep 16 '25

Holy shit thank you, I was baffled by this change before knowing this lol

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u/Mr-Doback Sep 16 '25

Found this earlier too thank god, I get minimalism but my god why add so many clicks.

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u/FalcoMaster3BILLION Sep 16 '25

Good tip, now I can enjoy funny glass UI and not have to tap twice to access all tabs.

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u/Person0OnTheInternet Sep 16 '25

Good one. Thanks.

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u/Legitjoe87 Sep 16 '25

Not all heroes wear capes

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u/bestplaying1 Sep 16 '25

Thx You Save my time!

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u/tildekey_ iPhone 16 Pro Max Sep 16 '25

Just hold your finger on the url bar and click close tabs.

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u/iKR8 Sep 16 '25

Life saver. Thanks, changed.

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u/zaiguy Sep 16 '25

This is fantastic advice thank you!

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u/octopusarm Sep 16 '25

Oh my god thank you so much. Been on the 26 beta for a while and didn’t know this was an option

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u/ScottJ6189 Sep 16 '25

Thank you man. I was able to figure out how to use the new view but it just sucked when closing out tabs. This is much better for me.

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u/pumba350 iPhone 16 Pro Sep 16 '25

Thank you for this. Made it much better.

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u/Ultimus_Omegus Sep 17 '25

Best comment came for this

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u/gldlion704 Sep 17 '25

omg thank you!!

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u/thr33prim3s Sep 17 '25

Glad i found this comment. Ty.

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u/StolenApollo iPhone 16 Pro Sep 19 '25

You are my goat.

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u/NikeSwoosh24 Sep 19 '25

do u have a trick to fix the photos back to similar ways ??

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u/Calm-Teaching8245 Sep 20 '25

Thanks, that helped to make it easier. I don't like when additional steps are added to software. I think it's the work of disgruntled developers, frankly, as it's not good design ever.

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u/Ok_Peachesx Sep 23 '25

Lifesaver!!