Does everyone know that the search bar in safari is always going to remain at the bottom? Apple have confirmed that their settings to move it compact, bottom and top are now redundant and it will always remain at the bottom from now on using iOS 26.3.1
This information seems incorrect. I'm using iOS 26.3.1, my Safari Tabs settings is Top, and Safari does show the address bar at the top:
You may want to change the Tabs setting, restart your iPhone and change the Tab setting to the one you prefer.
I migrated from IOS 18.7 to 26.3.1 which I really don’t like anyway. It sounds daft as it’s only a search bar but I spent hours doing all the suggestions on google and on the apple support community pages and nothing works. I have the iPhone 15 pro max,for example I’ve tried turning on and off motion controls,compact select force restart,top select force restart and yes I had closed safari and settings first. I’ve literally spent all yesterday afternoon,I even tried going back to my old saved iOS 18.7 backup which failed and caused loads of problems with the apps and I forgot to save photos and important information in notes. Literally nothing works so I contacted apple as a last resort and this is what they said
Sorry and yes I’ve tried all that as well John Galt but thank you for the suggestion. I did think that was odd from Apple too as to start with they wanted me to go through all of the suggestions I had already tried. Its very odd and a bit frustrating as I prefer safari over chrome but I will just use chrome from now on instead and also make this the last Apple product I buy as I don’t appreciate being lied to by Apple who evidently couldn’t be bothered to help.
Safari search bar fixed at bottom in iOS 26.3.1?
