Safari

Hello Angryclick,

Good job clarifying what is happening.

The first thing we would suggest would be to power cycle the iPhone by pressing and holding either volume button and the side button until the power-off slider appears. Drag the slider and wait 30 seconds for the device to turn off. While simple, this can refresh the iOS, apps and connections. More information is available here:  Restart your iPhone

If the problem continues, try clearing the history and cookies from Safari using these steps found at Clear the history and cookies from Safari on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch:

• To clear your history and cookies, go to Settings > Safari, and tap Clear History and Website Data. Clearing your history, cookies, and browsing data from Safari won't change your AutoFill information.

• To clear your cookies and keep your history, go to Settings > Safari > Advanced > Website Data, then tap Remove All Website Data.

• To visit sites without leaving a history, turn Private Browsing on.

When there's no history or website data to clear, the setting turns gray. The setting might also be gray if you have web content restrictions set up under Content & Privacy Restrictions in Screen Time.

Have a good day.

Hello Angryclick,

Welcome to Apple Support Communities. We're unsure of what you're asking, but we'd like to lend a hand to see how we can help. What exactly are you attempting to do on your Mac in its Safari app, and which macOS version do you have?

To get started, please check this out:

Go back to webpages you already visited in Safari on Mac - Apple Support

Keyboard shortcuts and gestures in Safari on Mac - Apple Support

We hope this information is useful. Kind regards.

Angryclick, 

Please correct us if we’ve misunderstood, but here’s what we believe you’re stating. After using the web search functionality in Safari, then navigating to a website if you use the ‘back’ key, instead of taking you back to the last website you were on it instead takes you back to the list of results from your web search. Do we have that right? 

If so, can you confirm that this happens with all websites you navigate to from the web search? Are you then navigating to other sites from that first link off the web search page? We’re trying to pinpoint down how far this happening. 

Additionally, let’s launch a new tab in Safari and test there as well. The following article goes over using tabs in Safari for iOS - Open and close tabs in Safari on iPhone To launch a new tab tap the button that looks like two squares, one shadowed behind the other. 

Thanks.