Safari jumps to the top of the previous page

I turned off all the safari experimental WebKit features and that fixed it for me. Not sure which one did it but I turned them ALL off.

This has to do with the search bar position, if you put it in tab bar or bottom, the problem is fixed, try and let me know

to fix it oké had to move the search/address bar to the bottom of the screen in Safari settings. Sorry it’s in Dutch but you recognise for dure the picture.

Hello ashleycleve,

We appreciate all the steps you've attempted so far with these issues with Safari and searching.

To confirm, are you double-tapping the back button? If you double-tap the top edge of the screen, this will quickly return to the top of a long page.

To help test this issue, please change the search option for Safari. Go to Settings > Safari > Search Engine. If you select a different search engine, does the same thing happen?

We look forward to hearing back from you.

Cheers.

I had the same problem. What fixed it for me was to return to the new default safari setting where the address bar is on the bottom. Once I did that the back arrow would take me to where I was on the previous screen.

Go to safari in settings and deselect “preload top hits”. Work like a charm for me. Hope this helps everyone else.

Just to expand. I’m on 16.0.3. I can create/solve the problem by switching in and out of Tab Bar and Single Tab.

I have this problem too! It corrected when I installed IOS16 but within a few hours the issue returned. LONG talk today with Apple Care. I’m told a factory reset will correct everything. Waiting for the proper cable to arrive. I’m using the iPhone 13pro max. I cannot believe how many are having this issue with no word from Apple. I’m promised a factory reset will solve this, we’ll see 🙁 if do not have this issue on my MacBook Air.

Apple Care tells me a reset to factory settings will fix this. I just got the cable so I can back up my phon to the computer. Now I just have to get brave enough to let them walk me through it. If they kill my phone I’ll have no contact with the outside world 😳

Turn on reader view for google search page, works so far for me.

Interesting, yes I can confirm this problem too since iOS 15.4.1

It’s definitely a new issue cause I would have noticed this during my heavy usage before the update. It’s most annoying when using google search, then going back to check the other results then having to scroll down to where you were before.. but it happens on other sites too. Hope Apple can fix this with the next Update. Can we report this to Apple via some kind of Form? Writing in this Forum won’t help them change it.

Antonio Tejada wrote:

This has been bugging me for years. It’s not new to 15.4 in any way.

This is absolutely true. Safari started with this weird behavior many years ago. It is the only browser I am aware of that comes with this annoying issue. And yes, I am seeing this issue regularly on ALL Apple platforms.

It seems the problem only occurs when the content on the previous page (the page you’re going back to) has slightly changed. For many news pages this is very common since they shuffle the content every time you load them.

A page where it occurs pretty much alway is the most popular German news site www.spiegel.de. Just try it and you will see that going back will always (let’s say in 3-4 of 5 tries–stay a few seconds before you go back) cause Safari to jump to the top of the page. It works in all other browsers though.

Bye safari, hello chrome… chrome does not appear to do this. Switch, seems easiest solution.

I also don’t remember this being issue in past.

unrelated, but apple’s auto-correct is really terrible too.

Didn’t work for me.

What is working for now is changing default search engine to something I don’t use and continuing to use google. If I set to any of the other default search engines and use the one selected the problem persists with all web pages originating from a click in that search engine. Interestingly if you swipe part way back you can see the last page, but if you go all the way back to the last page it refreshes no matter what.

Presently set to duck duck go and using google seems to work without the browser scrolling all the way to the top when hitting back button.

This has been an issue for me going on 3 years and has driven me nuts! One would think that @apple would address this issue either by documenting the correct settings to stop this abhorrent behavior or correct the issue in software updates. There should be no reason that safari can’t cache the last page position when browsing. Opening on additional tabs is cumbersome and utilizes more resources if you you have more tabs open or you click though multiple links and it does not close automatically.

Get it together Apple! This has been going on long enough!