How do I get Safari to display the URL?

leonie123 wrote:

Um, 'a wife's iPad'...? What is that even supposed to mean? Do people's iPads change when they get married?

Women don't need to do any serious work and they want everything to be pink and ruffly, of course. 😉

Open the menu "View" and select the first option "Show toolbar", you should now see the URL/address bar again.

If that doesn't help, open "View->Customize Toolbar" and check that the address bar is part of your toolbar.

I think the question was that the URL doesn't appear in the address bar. Not, the address bar doesn't appear at all. Safari will not show the current URL in the address bar which has significantly cripled my ability to do my work on webpages using CMS scripts. Is there a workaround that works just as well? I haven't been able to find any settings that would affect the address bar's text box display.

It's now 2014. I'm still using Firefox.

I think Apple's strategy is clear: eventually the address bar will disappear and you'll just use links or bookmarks. The address bar will be entirely replaced by a search field, you'll no more type in a URL into Safari than type a directory path into the Finder.

And at that point they can make merge Safari and iTunes. Takes me back to eWorld, where Apple tried to control your entire WWW experience (as did AOL and Microsoft at the time).

Try: preferences> advanced > click Smart Search Field (to show the full address)

Thank you Billfromeastmaitland! That worked.

Preposterous and not a little disconcerting that Apple would choose to hide the current URL in the address bar of the latest version of its browser. Next they'll be removing page numbers from books, just to give them "that streamlined look."

Thank you!

I absolutely second your opinion, Amahl — Apple has oversimplified a number of features and it's awful.

This awful new trends violates Einstein's maxim of make everything as simple as possible – but no simpler.

Apple!: don't make it look like a kid's display or a wife's iPad — make that garbage an option if you must, but dropping all the shadows, losing all button colors, and going to chintzy Play-Mobil sans-serif fonts like Google has stupidly done just makes it look like a crappy Microsoft Surface product.

Be Apple. You guys do you, let the morons go do themselves.

Egad.

Um, 'a wife's iPad'...? What is that even supposed to mean? Do people's iPads change when they get married?

Apple leadership and product teams are not here, and do not participate in this open, user-to-user support community.

Oops, forgot to check the date.