Safari browser is seriously messed up after 13.1.2 Update

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.

Thank you very much Lotuspilot.

My conclusion: you can create a slide-over view on two ways:

1) dragging a tab to the + in Safari, you see the Safari icon appear and then leave it and the overview appears, this is easy happening by accident.

2) dragging the Safari icon from the slide menu on the bottom of the ipad to the Safari page and also you have an overview.

you can remove the slide-overviews by swiping them to the right of the screen.

Looks all nice and easy, but now the bad: if you close the Safari app after these actions all your tabs are gone!!

I absolute don’t understand what is the use of this, why are all the tabs deleted then? For me this is a complete bug.

Thank you for learning how to save and restore a tab session (but you always have to be alert to save them before), I really hope that in the next update slide-overviews don’t ruin the tabs anymore.

PS, I know that in the white modus, you always can get the tabs back one by one (holding +), but this does not work in the private modus.

If using the Private Browsing mode in Safari, or any other browser, no tab or page history is retained upon closing a tab. This is by design - and is the entire point of “Private Browsing”; no history should be retained on the device.

That is completely unhelpful.

you are saying that because Apple’s latest update has rendered Safari useless, we should buy a new iPad?

apple just lost a lawsuit concerning phone batteries losing power just before release of the latest iPhone.

It is absurd how badly broken Safari on IPad has become. This is something that probably has Steve Jobs rolling in his grave. When I retired from IT after 25 years I ditched all my PC stuff because I was tired of OS/ hardware conflicts, the Apple stuff just worked. Sadly the new programmers have completely thrown QC out the window and are rushing unfinished software out to production. They have essentially destroyed the justification of paying a higher price for Apple software/hardware solutions.

Bill

Hi,

i also have problem on my new iPad with safari browser. Already 3 times I lost all tabs* by itself. When I’m going on safari I’m getting just first home page.

In settings is manually ordered cleaning tabs..

*losing tabs but in history I have everything saved...

some help?

Hi,

i also have problem on my new iPad with safari browser. Already 3 times I lost all tabs* by itself. When I’m going on safari I’m getting just first home page.

In settings is manually ordered cleaning tabs..

*losing tabs but in history I have everything saved...

some help?

I have a Mac. After installing Safari 13.1 Many, perhaps most of my webpages are unstable. I have not had stability problems on MacBook or iPads.

I contacted Apple for correction of problem on Mac and was told to use Chrome. I am now looking to purchase new desktop computer and may choose to exit the Apple universe.

This seems to have cleared up my problem zooming a Facebook page, in iPadOS/Safari. Thanks for the tip.

My safari is messed up too. Lost all my most used sites and am not happy.

Yes, thats what we're complaining about! Oops! no I haven't downloaded that one yet, sorry!