How to change the default browser in iOS 10 to Chome?

Well,

Since you are well versed in technology, you should be aware that Google Chrome is a total hardware/software resource hog on Macs and OS X/macOS.

Google has never, EVER optimised its Chrome web browser for Macs and Mac OS.

You're much better off sticking to Apple Safari OR, if you really disdain Safari soooo much, switch to using the latest Mozilla Firefox, instead.

If you want to use Google Chrome web browser on iOS, it's probably fine as it has, most likely, been already optimize for any mobile computing device.

Good Luck to You!

fhlunatic wrote:

The process of replying to this comment is a good case study. I clicked on the link to reply in my phone's email. I was taken to safari, where my passwords are not saved. I was asked to log in. I closed the app and opened my email on my pc so I could use chrome, my app of choice. As with every other human who utilizes technology my demands change along with my knowledge and needs. Restrictive policies such as this one have always annoyed me, but this is close to the last straw. I choose not to use safari for anything. (even though I own a 2016 macbook pro with touch toolbar) Apple is trying to use force to manipulate my choice. I apparently can only choose to switch to android to continue my technological progress.

Btw I'm an electrical engineering PhD student at Vanderbilt University researching surgical robotics, so I'm not a technical ignoramus.

I never suggested (or thought) that you were an ignoramus of any kind. My question was simple curiosity. Apple is as Apple always has been. They don't seem terribly likely to change. They don't get any extra money if you use Safari and they don't lose money if you use Chrome so I'm not sure what benefit it would be to attempt to manipulate you to do one and not the other. If an Apple product no longer meets your needs, you shouldn't use it. I say that with absolutely no sarcasm at all. I am in no position to judge the needs of anyone else.

Best of luck.

I really don't care that it isn't optimized. It's where my data is. But more importantly, it's the app that I want to use. I don't understand apple's penchant for needless control of the user's actions.

fhlunatic wrote:

I don't understand apple's penchant for needless control of the user's actions.

I can sum it up for you in two words: Steve Jobs. Apple has always provided the user with what Apple thinks they should have, not with all the possible options the user thinks they might want. It's a design philosophy that works for some, doesn't work for others. It's been, in the long run, pretty successful for Apple.

Best of luck.

As with every other human who utilizes technology my demands change along with my knowledge and needs.

You don't speak for me.

Restrictive policies such as this one have always annoyed me,

You aren't getting auto-saved passwords. Hardly the same as a restrictive policy. Not allowing you to use Chrome at all would be a restrictive policy.

Apple is trying to use force to manipulate my choice.

Puh-lease. Force?

I don't understand apple's penchant for needless control of the user's actions.

Then you don't understand Apple. As noted, this has been their modus operandi since day 1. They seem to be doing fine in spite of this.

Buy some stock. Go to the meeting. Step up and ask the board.

Vote with your choice of device. Choose the device that keeps you in control of your experience and with no further need to rage against the machine.

iOS devices are all built around Safari. The iPad, iPhone are both Mac devices. Mac's browser system is Safari. Whoever designed Chrome, etc and they want devices like the iPad and iPhone will have to design their own system, but that would be a boat load of lawsuits.

I suppose I'm feeding the troll, but sometimes it's fun.

As with every other human who utilizes technology my demands change along with my knowledge and needs.

You don't speak for me.

So, you're suggesting that you are stuck in a status quo never reaching for a better understanding or utilization of technology? That's a little bit sad.

Restrictive policies such as this one have always annoyed me,

You aren't getting auto-saved passwords. Hardly the same as a restrictive policy. Not allowing you to use Chrome at all would be a restrictive policy.

Interesting, Webster defines "restrict" as "a limitation on the use or enjoyment of property or a facility". I wonder what definition you are using?

Puh-lease. Force?

I wonder, do you find that alternate and sarcastic spellings of words are an adequate substitute for substantive content? I may or may not be wrong in this assertion (I don't think I am. The restriction of my actions are in many ways no less invasive in the digital world as the physical.), but you have given me no counter argument.

I find your responses to be juvenile and ineffective communication. I wonder what the point of your response was? I suppose it possibly was to annoy me or get a pat on the back from other apple apologists. It certainly wasn't to have a productive discussion on the issue at hand. Though, I believe the point is that apple does not have discussions on matters such as this one. They hand down edicts. And yes, as has been pointed out earlier, this has been an effective business strategy for them in the past.

LACAllen wrote:

I don't understand apple's penchant for needless control of the user's actions.

Then you don't understand Apple. As noted, this has been their modus operandi since day 1. They seem to be doing fine in spite of this.

Buy some stock. Go to the meeting. Step up and ask the board.

Vote with your choice of device. Choose the device that keeps you in control of your experience and with no further need to rage against the machine.

LACAllen,

I think it's time to give up on the troll. You've made excellent points and given great advice. Some people just want to whine.

JordanPat wrote:

iOS devices are all built around Safari.

No they are not. They are built around a Sandboxed operating system which is based on a variant of BSD Unix called Darwin.

JordanPat wrote:

The iPad, iPhone are both Mac devices.

Again, they are not. Originally conceived by Steve Jobs as a shrunken down macOS, it has since been developed into its very own thing. It works quite differently to macOS.

JordanPat wrote:

Whoever designed Chrome, etc and they want devices like the iPad and iPhone will have to design their own system

That would be Google and they did design their own system its called Android. No lawsuits. Everyone is free to design whatever they want. Google has even gone as far as releasing their own phones under the name Google Nexus. (built by different hardware manufacturers including Motorola and LG since its inception.

On iOS, developers need to follow certain policies and rules to maintain the high level of security iOS offers. Google designed and have released Chrome Browser for iOS for several years now as well as several other Apps, including their Gmail, and Google Drive apps on the platform. Chrome can be used on an iPhone just fine. There's nothing stopping you from using Chrome. It simply cannot be set as the default browser system wide. But Google's apps can use it as default browser to open links instead of Safari.

Good info! I finally found a work around this morning. There is apparently a way to use java to create a bookmark that allows you to open in chrome. I just tested it and it works well. I hope they don't close this door on me...

Is this aimed at me?

This is a false assumption.

I'm just as much an Apple user as you.

However, I refrain from answering other users arrogantly, lecturing and belittling them- as too many of the, call them hardocore, Apple elitists often do.

Apple is faulty, and so is Google.

Deal with it.

Both sides are equally arrogant and silly when it comes to "defending" their own chosen platform.

TL;DR

You are the ones still fueling this stupid ******* contest. Stop it.

:D

Ca9ine wrote:

Is this aimed at me?

This is a false assumption.

I don't believe I have responded to you at all in this thread prior to this post. And I certainly haven't engaged in any ad hominem attacks. Or used any words that were too rude to make it past the forum software.

You are the ones still fueling this stupid ******* contest. Stop it.

As long as people abide by the Terms of Use of these forums, they may post as they see fit. The only people who get to tell them they can't are the Hosts.

Seems monopolistic to force allow browser to be only choice for default no?

Agree. Acting like Microsoft in the 90's, very strange.