Safari address bar does not work

Try relaunching Safari while holding down the shift key.

Hi,

It's happening to me too! I can't type any text. I noticed that when i try to type it doesn't even show the bookmarks so I disabled the search and the bookmarks suggestion then relaunched Safari and now it's working...or at least I can type.

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014), OS X El Capitan 10.11.3

Hello. It's happening to me too, unfortunately.

This morning, after enabling FileVault on my MBA 11" 2015 for security reasons, it started doing that (I'm attaching a screenshot).

I tried to reset history, disable every extension, etc., but nothing changes. The bug shows up even when using Guest user, so that's a system-wide issue. I don't know if it's correlated to FileVault, but I have updated some days ago to 10.11.3 and this bug showed up just this morning.

I found that a temporary fix is to disable Safari's smart search in the settings, but that's a non-solution, because that functionality is pretty useful.

I had the exactly same problem from this morning as well! Thanks to Lauramarl's reply, it is working properly again. Very strange that quite a few people started to have the issue from similar time

Same here. Doesn't even show a cursor, only focus rect around the text field. When I enter text it is not shown until I press enter but nothing else happens. So Safari 9.0.3 is broken and useless. Disabling search and suggestions fixes the issue.

BTW: Had the same issue with mobile Safari on my iPhone some time ago.

Apple: Please don't let something that may not be available (e.g. server responsible for search/suggestions) render the whole product useless. Who programmed this?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)

Very strange indeed! I've just realised that even Safari on iPad air 2 is not working, whenever I try to type in the address bar Safari crashes. I think It's probably not working for the same reason because I disabled the suggestions and now it works.

Hy

Me, too!

I only disable the suggestion in Safari-Pref-Search.

I think it works now.

Thanks

Hallo

Geht mir auch so.

Ich habe aber nur die Safari-Vorschläge deaktiviert. Safari->Einstellungen->Suche!

Im Moment funktionierts wieder.

Danke

Same problem with Safari and El Capitan (latest version). Unchecking the boxes under search preferences helped.

Same problem here on two differents Macs at workplace (most recent MacPro running El capitan & 2012 iMac running Yosemite 10.10.5 and safari 9.0.3)

It seems to be affecting different OS and Safari builds so i think it may be a server-side issue, not a user side one.

Anyway thanks to Lauramarl for the trick. it worked for me too

it seems to be only "Safari Suggestions" which breaks Safari's address bar.

Unchecking only "Include Safari Suggestions" solves the issue. First I thought it is maybe Google's fault but now it's clear it's Apple's.

Yip me too really annoying!!

Let me add another data point. Exactly the same problem as everyone else. Thanks for the suggestion of unchecking "Include Safari Suggestions" that did the trick.

Back to work ...!

Michael

Sorry but I have the same problem on an IMac, but all updated software.