How to disable "Copy Subject" feature in Safari?

The problem is a context menu appearing and becoming active before the context is known.

Experience (and muscle memory) tells you that in order to open something in a new tab via the context menu you..

1. Right click (or two-finger tap) to open the context menu
2. Move a little to the right
3. Left click

This can be done in a split second and is second nature.

But now, if the pointer is near the bottom of the screen, Venture decides to...

1. Display the context menu showing the "open in new tab" option exactly where you expect it to be
2. A split second later, just before you left-click, move the option up the screen just enough to bring the "open in a new window" option under the pointer

It's appalling UX behaviour.

@Apollo_ No, that misses the point entirely. It's about messing with a muscle memory, commonly used action. I don't want to have to wait for the contextual menu to settle due to this new feature that I never use.

Have you found a way to disable this? It is extremely annoying and I completely share your frustration. Could there be some hidden preference to turn this off?

It is driving me nuts. I started hating Apple every day I have to use Safari now. I remember when Safari was introduced 20 years ago and I more or less loved it with each release. Now I just stopped using it because this was too annoying in everyday use.

Yep doing my head in too. It affects me literally 20+ times a day. Usually by trying to open a link in a new tab but the shift makes me open in a new window instead.

I despise safari now. The only reason I use it is because of its integration with being able to input a 2 factor number from text message directly into the webpage. If it wasn't for that, I'd have ditched it for Chrome long ago.

Another regular annoyance is the amount of clicks I have to do to go into a "non secure page". Click link > then click another link > then click I accept and then get a pop up asking me again. This 'over-secure' 'hand holdy' frustration runs through the whole Apple eco system.

Another regular one is some pages open blank with an empty URL field, and the back button doesn't work. So for example I could open a dozen new tabs and then scroll through them, if one is blank there is no way of knowing which website it was meant to be so I lose it forever.

Everything Apple'y is so bad lately.

Extremely annoying, you always end up selecting the wrong menu. Not up to Apple. Who did that? Please make it work or just let us disable it. Thanks.

It must have been implemented by a man sent from google to destroy Apple.

Totally agree. Seems like there's less and less testing of these features going on before they're thrown out into the public.

There really should be a way to properly customise all aspects of the contextual menu.

But we still don't have a proper eq for the music player in iOS, and that's been going on for the last 10 or more years. Sad

As soon as the items shift upwards and make you click on the wrong one, Keep your finger clicked on the trackpad. That way you avoid to activate any item. So now you can slide the pointer to wherever you want to click on. 👌🏼😃

Waiting forever, having to use the mouse instead of keyboard commands. The new Apple/Windblows Ventura 13.6

Makes me so mad. I'm honestly tired of frantic design teams giving apple foolish tools. This tool should be in Preview.app exactly how Adobe has it part of Photoshop's Select menu.

Apple, stop your foolishness.

Steve Jobs’ meaning of design was: “the way it works”

Now it’s just ”fancy things that don’t work well”

New iphones (without button) are a mess, you need 20cm fingers and the gestures are anti human. Not to mention the island that is a black spot in your image. Horrible experience. I still buy Apple brcause it’s the only brand that matters to me, but i wish they will start again making things that work.

john hope1 wrote:

Steve Jobs’ meaning of design was: “the way it works”

Now it’s just ”fancy things that don’t work well”

New iphones (without button) are a mess, you need 20cm fingers and the gestures are anti human.

Remember, Jobs didn't want to include any keyboard with the original Mac. He thought that the one-button mouse would be enough. Woz had to talk him into it.

However, my brand new iPhone 15 Pro has four buttons so, I'm not sure what you mean by phones without a button.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

john hope1 wrote:

Steve Jobs’ meaning of design was: “the way it works”

Now it’s just ”fancy things that don’t work well”

New iphones (without button) are a mess, you need 20cm fingers and the gestures are anti human.

Remember, Jobs didn't want to include any keyboard with the original Mac. He thought that the one-button mouse would be enough. Woz had to talk him into it.

However, my brand new iPhone 15 Pro has four buttons so, I'm not sure what you mean by phones without a button.

Jobs didn't want to include most keys on the keyboard that he felt made it clunky and bloated, but that didn't mean he didn't want a keyboard. If you have links to articles that state otherwise, please include them. Like this article about Jobs and the Extended Keyboard

As for the button, my guess is they are referring to the home button. The home button with TouchID is far more useful than "Swipe up, stare at phone to unlock" with FaceID. The best case example is the device is on a desk and you want to glance at...well maybe not you, but people sometimes just need to glance at the phone without picking it up, it's a thing. Of course I'm sure one day Apple will bring back TouchID and pat themselves on the back for being "innovative"... just like mag-safe, switch keyboards for Macbooks and, other features they've revived to look "innovative" in recent years.

All of which is off topic from "how to disable "Copy Subject"" which the OP was asking about, an answer which I'm currently searching for as it's poor design to have it pop in seconds after opening a context window. Information on how to do that would actually be helpful. Thanks!