Anyone else have VERY slow Safari loading with new 16.5 update? So annoying!

When clearing Safari history and cache, make sure that you have “all history” selected and not “last hour”!

Once I selected “all history”, Safari instantly loaded.

Settings

Safari

Clear History and Website Data

Check “All History”

click the red Clear History

I had the same problem for a while, I hesitated to do full safari history clearing, I did restart, clear 1 hour or last day of history use … but didn’t work. Now, I cleared the whole safari history then restarted my iPhone, tried CNN.com and it worked instantly

Hi barbarafromnj,

We have an article to share with suggestions for troubleshooting Safari issues on your iPhone. Please try the suggestions here, and let us know if you need further help:

If Safari isn't loading websites or quits on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

Cheers!

Apple doesn’t need to fix anything as the rest us are not seeing slowdowns. Try restart gin your iPhone first. Then try deleting cookies, cache, history on Safari.

If Safari isn't loading websites or quits on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

acevedotom wrote:

I am having the same issue with Safari, lkrupp does not speak for everybody. Safari got so bad slow that I had to download a different browser on my all platforms

Closing (and then reopening) (lots of) tabs, and clearing some cookies, seems to have speeded things, locally.

Mine is terribly slow even after doing the above. Chrome is much faster but i hate using it.. wondering why when all browsers are supposed to be skinned safari. I have turned off private relay too and that helped a bit

IdrisSeabright wrote:

barbarafromnj wrote:

Anyone else have VERY slow Safari loading on iPhone 11pro with new 16.5 update? So annoying!

Nope. Not seeing any change.

I am. Safari is loading some webpages more slowly in recent versions, including here in ASC.

I’ve also hit some webpages that fail loading (usually when opening in the background), but loading another (lighter) webpage (e.g. the DDG homepage) and then immediately backing up to the webpage that failed clears that.

Other webpages will open very quickly.

I do have lots of tabs open, with multiple tab groups, and haven’t been inclined to close everything to test whether that is involved.

This with an iPad Pro M2, so not old and not slow.

Should anybody meet this, log your symptoms and your feedback with Apple: Product Feedback - Apple

I am having the same issue with Safari, lkrupp does not speak for everybody. Safari got so bad slow that I had to download a different browser on my all platforms

I’m having the same problem after clearing tabs, history and cache. It moves from site to site quickly but takes 6 seconds to load initially.

barbarafromnj wrote:

Anyone else have VERY slow Safari loading on iPhone 11pro with new 16.5 update? So annoying!

Nope. Not seeing any change.

I am having the same issue since I got the safari update, its so bad that I had to find a different web browser. I hope apple fix it right away.

Hello yes I had the same problem, is very annoying, is worse than Windows

Nope - I’m having same issues

Worked a treat, thank you so much!!