Safari browser is seriously messed up after 13.1.2 Update

Following update to iPadOS13, your Safari browser now defaults to render the full “Desktop” version of sites - instead of the reduced “mobile” version.

If the website is having difficulty rendering content with the updated iPadOS browser, then you could try using the mobile version. Simply tap the aA button in the Safari search bar, then select “Request Mobile Site”. The website may otherwise require update to be fully compatible, in which case you’ll need to contact the webmaster of the affected site(s).

Apple themselves do not participate within these fora. If you need to raise an issue with Apple, then you’ll need to either raise a Support case using the Contact Support link at top-right of this page, or send feedback to Apple using their feedback link:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

If using the latter, you won’t receive a reply to your “feedback” - but it is understood that all such submissions are logged.

I hope the described workaround helps to address your immediate difficulties.

If you’re having difficulty with tabs, and other Safari relates troubles, I have written a detailed support article that explores many of the commonly experienced issues and their relatively simple solutions:

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250002077

I hope you find it to be helpful in addressing your specific troubles - any feedback would be gratefully received to inform any updates/additions to the article. I hope you like it - do let us know how you get on.

One other thing, for the benefit of others, if not already updated to iPadOS 13.3.1 (current at the time of writing this reply), you should do so.

After accepting the latest os update for my iPad I simply cannot believe what Apple seems to have done! I now have AA symbols that seem to decide for themselves what size windows you will have whenever they feel like it. Especially on YouTube! There seems no rhyme or reason to what they have done, except perhaps to ruin that essential reliability and simplicity that was the iPad.

Personally as an elderly ‘ordinary Joe’ I wouldn’t bother. I found out years ago that Microsoft and Apple aren’t looking to perfect an oS, but to change /tweak it. And if you’re not a computer nerd or expert, you’re totally dependent on someone else to fix it for you.

The new safari is an absolute nightmare, it’s clunky, slow, non responsive, the zooming is atrocious. Nothing works anymore! Long gone the slickness and flawlessness of apple products. Maybe time to go back to Microsoft.

The update from iOS12 to iPadOS/iOS13 is a major update - moving from a simple “mobile” browser to a full “desktop class” browser on the iPad. Whilst I understand your evident frustration at change - and acknowledge that some fairly significant bugs exist in these early days of the new OS - Safari has significantly “grown up”.

Have you tried the new iPadOS 13.2 - which had general release yesterday?

Sorry to hear that you’re having major issues. Perhaps, if your could expand beyond generalities with some detail of specific issues, the community could provide comparative results and/or explanation?

Since updating to iPadOS - and the very latest iPadOS13.2, Safari appears very stable. The only specific issue that I’m currently seeing is with this website - in that once logged-in to the community, I seem to be logged-out within minutes of being idle (or if looking at something else on the iPad). This issue is new - and I don’t see it with Safari on iOS12.x iPads.

Maybe so, but considering the prices apple charges for their products, such bugs are totally unacceptable. And no I haven’t downloaded anything yesterday. I’ve updated my phone and iPad twice within a week and that was few weeks ago. Since then browsing and surfing the internet have become a pain more than anything. It’s a constant frustrating and wasting time.

Yes, I run an iPad, an iMac and a windows10 laptop. The iMac is stable even though Apple still makes little changes that mak life difficult.. the laptop running Windows 10 is fairly reliable - although Google messes around with Skype and YouTube. Since the last big upgrade for the iPad, the YouTube windows keep resizing and you sometimes get page overlays or areas of text overlaid by little adverts. I disable nearly all the apps I never use (which is most of them), as I only read news, follow stuff on Facebook and YouTube, do email and a few games. (Similarly with the smartphone, most apps are disabled.

Well, as for Safari’s rendering of website’s embedded advertising (and poor rendering thereof), I cannot provide constructive comment - as I employ a very effective Ad-Blocker (1Blocker-X) to intentionally suppress this kind of “unwanted” content on my iPadOS/iOS devices.

Browsers on other platforms have their own fare share of issues and challenges. Direct comparison between platforms and third-party browsers is always difficult.

I am having massive issue with my ipad safari too. I am unable to have multiple audio on safari web like i can on a macbook and sometimes the website just wont load. safari is just so unstable on ipad now and is boaderline usable I seriously hope apple can fix it asap. Ipad has been buggy ever since launch.

have you retrieved all your lost tabs? All mine are gone and I REALLY need them back! I have so much stuff about depression On my tabs and they’re helping me so much and I’ve lost ALL of them! I need them back. Please help me.

P.S I hate that the safari search page now looks like when you open chrome on your laptop,, I want my regular safari back, I hate the 13.3 update! I want everything back and I wish I never updated to 13.3.

In the beginning of using 13.3.1 I also lost all my tabs. For me tabs are important to compare websites and I sometimes I need them for weeks. The main reason to loose tabs is the following: you want to change the position in horizontal direction on the tab-bar and then by accident it is catched by the + icon (you see the Safari icon) and a narrow double screen os Safari appears. This narrow screen you can swipe to the right again and it dissappears. It looks like everything is OK again. But when you are shutting down Safari then and start it up again all your tabs are gone. My advice: don’t use multiscreen Safari because it is ruining all your tabs. In IOS 12 you could move the tabs horizontal without any problem and no annoying over-advanced popups. I can live with it now, but it is the same as moving on thin ice, be carefull don’t activate multiscreen.

About he zoom: sometimes good, then too large and the too small, complete meshed up.

Copy a link url of a button in a website don’t work anymore with many, had to move to Google Chrome.

Downloads are automaticly directed to Icloud. I don’t want that, I just want to store them in my dear Filebrowser. OK you can do this afterwards, but not happy with it.

OK waiting for the updates again.