With Safari 9 the sidebar automatically opens when your cursor moves to the left side of the page... this is REALLY annoying. Is there a way to disable it? I already sent feedback to Apple.
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X El Capitan (10.11)
Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem or a suggestion for change. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem/suggested change solved sooner.
it's 2017 and there is still no real solution. to all those people out there who thought clicking 'hide sidebar' would do the trick, read the question again pls.
either way, I'm annoyed by this sidebar constantly and REALLY want apple to provide some kind of way to get rid of it. doubt they will ever do it though.
That's not happening on Safari 9 and El Capitan v10.11 on my Mac. You may have a plugin or extension installed that's not compatible with Safari 9 and El Capitan v10.11.
From the Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Extensions tab. Turn that OFF, quit and relaunch Safari to test. If that helped, turn one extension on then quit and relaunch Safari to test until you find the incompatible extension then click uninstall.
If it's not an extensions issue, try troubleshooting third party plug-ins.
Back to Safari > Preferences. This time select the Security tab. Deselect: Allow all other plug-ins. Quit and relaunch Safari to test.
If that made a difference, instructions for troubleshooting plugins here.
I have no extensions, and i should have said Safari has to be full screen. Thanks for your reply tho 🙂
I would also like to disable this very annoying feature.
I too would like to disable this but can't find how. It's very annoying.
I believe it's a permanent feature of Safari when in full screen now. I haven't read or seen anything that talks about how it might be disabled.
The reading list sidebar slides SUCK big time. Fix the issue Apple. Why does it take so long to kill a crappy feature.
Hello,
I have found an "solution"
Just put your dock on the left side and the problem was resolved.
But PLEASE send your feedback here : http://www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html
This does not stop the sidebar. Also someone comments it only happens when Safari is full screen. Not so for my system. Retina iMac, OS10.11.
Just keep using Safari in fullscreen with the dock set to the left side in System Preferences. Enter this command in Terminal without quotes: "defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 1000 && killall Dock"
This will fix the issue.
Note: the dock will need the "Mission Control four finger swipe up" to show/hide it.
To make things back the way they were, enter this in Terminal: "defaults delete com.apple.Dock autohide-delay && killall Dock"
I also have this problem, and it's really annoying! Tried sending feedback too, but I'm doubting they'll even listen. They never seem to.
Hi guys,
18 November 2015, nothing's changed. What can we do to push Apple letting us disable this feature? it's just driving me crazy. Thanks.
Very annoying this "feature". Please Apple, let us disable it.
Apple doesn’t routinely monitor the discussions. These are mostly user to user discussions.
Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.
How to disable Safari 9 sidebar
