Safari browser changes 2025 unable to change back to before

You are not correct. You always had to have a Search Engine selected and there was never an option to have none. By default the Search Engine chosen is Google. The Safari Search Suggestions are just what was found in your browsing history or the result of a previous search from one of the Search Engines. There was never an option for Safari/Apple search results as they do not have a search engine. The only searching going on is from your website history or the suggestions provided by your selected search engine. If you recently cleared your Web History, then you may not see all those suggestions.

Safari is a browser. It has never been a search engine, or had one of Apple's own.

You change it to the search engine you want it to use in Settings > Apps >Safari, which are the same ones that have been there for years.

Google (the default)

Yahoo

Bing

DuckDuckGo

Ecosia

Apple/Safari has NEVER had a search engine of its own. For years the default search engine for Safari has been Google. So you were using Google’s search engine all this time without knowing it. End of story.I f you are now being asked to select a search engine you may be located in a country whose govern ment has mandated users be offered a selection. Where are you in the world?

And might I ask why you chose the username Applehater2025? If you hate Apple then why are you using Apple’s hardware and software? Please explain if you can.

What Kurt said.

No idea what you think you were using before. It hasn't changed.