{"id":209516,"date":"2025-06-24T05:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T05:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209516\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T05:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T05:03:10","slug":"ios-26-beta-2-fixes-frustrating-safari-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/209516\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 26 Beta 2 Fixes Frustrating Safari Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/ios-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iOS 26<\/a> beta 2, Apple updated the location of the new tab icon in Safari, fixing a frustrating change that was made in the first \u200ciOS 26\u200c beta.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/safari-design-changes-ios-26-b2.jpg\"   alt=\"safari design changes ios 26 b2\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1007718\"\/>Safari in beta 2 on left, Safari in beta 1 on right<br \/>The initial \u200ciOS 26\u200c release introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/06\/10\/apple-ios-26-safari-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three view options<\/a> for the tab bar and it changed the look of the interface for managing all open tabs. The tab view significantly altered the placement of buttons, including the &#8220;+&#8221; button for a new tab.<\/p>\n<p>Apple moved the button from the bottom of the Safari interface in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/ios-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iOS 18<\/a> to the top in \u200ciOS 26\u200c, which led to people tapping the wrong buttons when trying to open a new tab. There was no logical reason for the &#8220;+&#8221; button to move to the top of the screen, and in \u200ciOS 26\u200c beta 2, Apple moved it back to the bottom of the app.<\/p>\n<p>The Safari tab management interface in \u200ciOS 26\u200c beta 2 is now similar to the tab management interface in \u200ciOS 18\u200c. The new tab option is on the left where it always was, and while &#8220;Done&#8221; is now a checkmark, it&#8217;s still there on the right.<\/p>\n<p>Apple kept the option to swipe between standard browsing, private browsing, and tab browsing, rather than tucking those away behind a hamburger menu. Options for managing tab groups, selecting tabs, and copying links remain in the top left.<\/p>\n<p>\u200ciOS 26\u200c beta 2 makes another small change to Safari, for those who opt to use the new &#8220;Compact&#8221; Safari tab view. With the Compact setting, if you tap on the back button, the button now splits into a forward and a back button for easier navigation. Before, there was no forward button option.<\/p>\n<p>The top and bottom layouts have not changed, and have always had both the forward and back buttons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In iOS 26 beta 2, Apple updated the location of the new tab icon in Safari, fixing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[60981,547,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-209516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-ios-26","9":"tag-mobile","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}