iOS - Google Search Window Disappears Behind Safari Address Bar

I actually spoke to a “senior” adviser who told me that the problem was that my iPhone 13 mini had too small a screen. When I said it was never a problem before plus people on the forum have 14 pro plus model with same problem he then told me it was the pre-populated trending searches pushing the search bar up so I disabled trending searches and still no fix so next answer was that Google must be coding something differently. I said if that’s true why isn’t it happening to everyone. The conversation ended with go in and change your Google settings and good luck so no resolution and no real concern that there wasn’t.

—SusanB_

Yes, I posted last week, or just before maybe, that it appeared to be ‘working’ again, or at least, wasn’t requiring a re-scrolling down of the page each time.

However, what I have noticed since, is that even after you tap in the Google search bar, the screen change, the search text field moves to the top but, vitally, still visible, and it shows a list of your previous searches below that.

BUT YOU STILL have to click into the search text field at the top to get it to accept input.

All I can think is that the people behind the page code for this don’t care less about its compatibility with different, non-Google browsers and haven’t bothered trying to test it on same.

It annoys the crap out of me though that Apple haven’t made any comment one way or the other. Zilch, Nada. So we, as (assumption here) valued users, have absolutely no idea if Apple even:

• knows anything about this issue when occurring in the first place
• knows how bloody annoying it is to users when this isn’t working
• acknowledges that this is ‘a thing’
• has it on any kind of list at all, let alone a list of ‘future changes’ or ‘investigations’

i would dearly love it if Apple were to maintain a list of user reported issues, containing all the various steps / statuses that they will go through. Even if 99% of them end up under the “KNOWN BUT NO ACTION TO TAKE” status.

That is how to let your customers / end users (those people that will be opening their wallets every September) know that they, and their intelligence and views, are valued.

Any reasonable customer recognises that it’s totally unreasonable for Apple, or any tech company for that matter, can, or has an appetite to, address everything.

If I felt confident that Apple were aware and acknowledged that this problem existed for some users, but had made the decision that it didn’t effect sufficient numbers of them, it was too costly to fix for the given priority/importance, then I, and pretty sure everyone else, would soon stop wasting my time and mental processing cycles, writing on this forum thread, and any others, about various ideas for root causes, solutions or workarounds, or rants, like this one.

Of course, what tech company would dare to openly admit that there was problems? And what tech company would dare to give a transparent view of line items in its problem management process to its users?

Maybe this small band of the faithful are the only ones affected by this. Perhaps we are living in an obscure bubble, taking about things that no one else out there recognises, in a language that no one else understands?

Came here after again and hoping for a fix. Apple please fix!!!! It has been an ongoing bug!

Whilst moving the address bar to the bottom was a workaround for my 14 Pro (16.2), I think I also have a workaround for the address bar on the top that seems to work.

Hit the double AA on the left of the address bar and at the top of that page you’ll probably see something like A 100% A. Hit the bigger A on the right till the centre figure goes to 115% then come out and go back to the main Google page. Obviously everything looks slightly larger, but typing into the search box now will hopefully not be hidden at the top. Worked on mine anyway!

Here is another solution, albeit a kludgy one. Once you have the Google search page loaded, try turning your phone 90° to landscape mode. The Google search bar seems to stay unhidden when you type in your search terms. Then rotate back to portrait mode and the search bar with your search terms remains unhidden. Then hit “search” as usual.

Not the best solution, but I find it to be less effort than pulling the page down to unhide the search bar and trying to type into it without having it become hidden again.

I have had this issue for a while, and I've been following this thread. I think the problem is coming from the "Google Doodle". I noticed as it changes, so does my ability to see the search bar. When it's back to no doodle and just the basic search bar I can set my zoom to normal and there are no issues. As soon as there is any sort of graphic the search bar disappears and I have to pull it down pr change my zoom. Now whether this is an Apple problem or a Google problem I don't know. Being that Google has their own Chrome AND Google App I'm sure they don't care if it works with Safari or not. Since Google is a competitor of sports, I'm sure Apple doesn't care either. So my final opinion on this is switch to Chrome or Google or deal with it because it's not going to ever get fixed.

I have I phone 15 pro max since two years. I’m having same stupid problem. My 2 years finance plan is done and time to buy new phone. I’m confused now. Can anyone suggest me to stick with i phone or go with Samsung if iPhone doesn’t want to fix problems.

Too bad…now Apple has you trapped into their ecosystem. Ha, ha, they don’t have to fix any problems, like this, that “most” of their customer base faces…because Apple knows you aren’t going anywhere due to the $10,000 dollars worth of other Apple products you own anchoring you to them, (like a boat anchor slung around your neck to drown you.)

Besides, they’ve got higher priorities to create, and add more useless features…vs calling up Google Dev Stakeholders and saying “Heh Google…What Gives? How can we fix this abortion?”.

Corporate executives couldn’t give a rats *** about us peon customers (or the populace in general).

The issue was back when there was a Google Doodle (was that yesterday or two days ago?), and now that the Doodle is gone so is this issue. I definitely think it has something to do with it now that I am paying attention.

Yeah, the Google Doodle is back and so is the problem. It's definitely a bug stemming from the doodle. Nobody will fix it since technically Apple and Google are competitors so neither care. Change your browser completely and you'll never have the problem, not a great answer but it is what it is.

Yes, same here, but this isn't a usual doodle. We'll see if it corrected itself or if it goes back to same behavior. Either way I am sure it is (was) a bug tied to the doodle. Maybe it's fixed but I bet not. And if that's the case, we all have to accept that it's simply not ever going to be fixed. Google doesn't care what happens on the Safari browser, and Apple doesn't care what happens to Google on their browser.

I saw this thread a couple of weeks ago. I have been suffering the same issue, with Safari and Google search, for a long time now. It is so frustrating and annoying.

Anyway, literally overnight, it has started working fine, as in once I have tapped into the search text box it doesn’t immediately disappear off the top of the screen. It does move to the too of the page, then stops.

I am desperately trying to think of anything at all that I did yesterday on my Apple iPhone 15 Pro to make this happen. Recently I have been experimenting with Accessibility Touch options (as have a tendency to double tap, or to tap something when not intending, due to severe cervical nerve root damage some years ago sending erroneous signals to my fingers).

I am pretty sure, after trying some things out, I switched everything back off again. Even with this, I cannot see how anything I might have inadvertently changed, and not switched back again, could have impacted my Google search issue.

So, all this has made me wonder whether or not things have changed in the Google web page’s server side code, so that it no longer does this in iPhone Safari.

Had anyone else out there, that has been experiencing the same Google search bar problems, also suddenly found that the problem has gone away?

I would love to know what changed to fix this, or at least to understand what’s happening behind it, so that, if it should ever return, we ALL know how to fix it.

Apple iPhone 15 Pro

iOS 17.2.1 (21C66)

• Safari Zoom set at 100%’- never been changed.
• Automatic Software Updates set to Download Only.
• Auto App updates turned off.

So no surprises.