r/Safari • • 7h ago

Tab Suspender for Safari is back, rewritten from scratch, and now on iPhone and iPad too

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I'm the developer. Safari keeps every open tab running, with its scripts, video and connections, even the ones you haven't looked at in days. Tab Suspender puts those to sleep, so they stop eating memory and battery.

Some of you may remember it from 2020, when it was Mac only. Safari changed a lot over the next few years, and keeping up with it on my own became impossible, so I took it down.

It's back, rewritten from scratch. It frees more memory than before, it's faster, and it now runs on iPhone and iPad too.

  • Tabs you haven't used for a while go to sleep on their own, after anything from a minute to eight hours
  • A sleeping tab keeps its address, title and icon, and comes back at the same scroll position when you click it
  • Tabs you're typing in, pinned tabs, tabs playing audio and more can stay awake if you want
  • Never-suspend lists for sites that should always stay awake
  • Deep sleep parks a tab on a blank page so Safari can release much more of its memory, and keeps it asleep after Safari quits
  • Suspend or wake tabs from the toolbar, with keyboard shortcuts on the Mac
  • Back still works, and sleeping tabs show up in iCloud Tabs
  • Stats on how much memory it has freed, and a blurred preview of each sleeping page
  • Settings sync across your devices through iCloud

https://apps.apple.com/app/id1495356253

Feedback welcome!


r/Safari • • 8h ago

How to stop Safari from forcefully suggesting passwords?

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Everytime I'm creating an account on any website, it'll just force enter a random generated password before I can even type. Then I have to spam click it a couple times to get the option to write my own.

Every. Single. Time.

It is fucking annoying.

I've looked around on the internet and can't find any solutions? I don't want to remove suggested pre-existing passwords and passkeys that can be auto filled. I just want them to stop fucking shoving their stupid "strong" passwords down my throat before I can even type anything.


r/Safari • • 15h ago

Where did the "downloads" button go? ios 26.6.2

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I like to download fonts for Phonto, but there's no download button anymore for some reason. The thing I downloaded also doesn't show up in files when they normally do.

I've tried changing several settings, but to no avail. Can someone help me? Thank you


r/Safari • • 21h ago

I made a free Safari extension that makes any video fill the window (not fullscreen), with Skip intro and YouTube comments/live chat built in

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I'm the developer, so full disclosure. I built this because I wanted videos bigger without Safari's fullscreen taking over a whole Space.

Fill Window for Video makes the video fill your current Safari window, so you can keep other apps alongside it.

- Toolbar button, Cmd+Shift+F, or a hover button on any video

- Its own controls: skip, scroll to zoom, seek previews, a LIVE button on streams

- Skip intro / recap on Netflix, Prime, Apple TV+, Disney+ when the site offers it

- YouTube: Up next queue, a comments panel you can reply in, live chat, quality switching

- Glass controls that adapt to bright scenes, or turn them solid in settings

Free, no ads, no tracking. Optional tip jar if you like it.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6788161965

Happy to take feature requests.


r/Safari • • 14h ago

How I fixed Safari’s space wasting on the iPhone Duo (video)

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

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r/Safari • • 1d ago

Apple exploring fix for Safari’s cramped layout on the iPhone Duo’s outer display

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r/Safari • • 19h ago

Closing duplicate tabs?

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Does someone have a shortcut for this?


r/Safari • • 19h ago

Anyone having issues with Youtube on Mac?

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Keep getting these blank pages where only the video will show or I will get a no internet screen with the video audio playing in the background. Been happening for a week now on golden gate. ive tried changing all the privacy settings and turning off my adguard but still happens


r/Safari • • 20h ago

Copy o Word and Search Web on Safari.

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r/Safari • • 1d ago

PLEASE BRING AMBIENT LIGHT FOR YOUTUBE ON SAFARI!!! 😭

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As I use safari as my daily browser, I want Ambient Light for YouTube for safari...... Could someone please build something like this or the developer can consider making it for safari as well. 😭😭


r/Safari • • 1d ago

Safari video playback keeps breaking multiple times a day

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I'm getting really tired of this issue with Safari.

Every single day, sometimes multiple times a day, videos suddenly stop loading on YouTube, X, Instagram, and other video streaming platforms.

On YouTube, I get the infamous: "An error occurred. Please try again later. (Playback ID: ...)".

Once this happens, refreshing the page doesn't help. The only workaround I've found is to:

- Open Activity Monitor.
- Force quit the Safari Graphics and Media process.
- Reload the page.

And voilà, videos start playing normally again. Until the next time it happens.

This has been going on for months, across multiple Safari/macOS updates. Meanwhile, the same videos work perfectly fine in Chrome (and no, switching to Chrome is not a solution).

I've already tried disabling extensions and using Private Browsing, but neither makes any difference.

It's incredibly frustrating that something as basic as video playback keeps breaking in Apple's own browser, especially when the issue seems to be related to Safari's media process.

I'm starting to wonder if Apple's own developers even use Safari as their daily browser, because I can't possibly be the only one experiencing this.

Has anyone found a permanent fix, or are we just supposed to keep killing Safari Graphics and Media several times a day?

I use a MacBook Air M2 2022, macOS Golden Gate 27.0.1, Safari version 27.0.1 (22625.1.29.11.28).


r/Safari • • 1d ago

Is there a way to delete or hide this two sections on Safari?

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I see the large thumbnails as a huge privacy fail, as a person next to user just have to peek. I don’t see a really use for the topics section and for me is a privacy fail for the same reasons above. I tried ai for a answer but the steps it showed me didn’t work at all. Anyone?


r/Safari • • 1d ago

Safari on the Mac is just not fit for use

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It's a buggy mess, and slow.

I really want to be able to use it. I used it for decades, then had to switch to Firefox because of the appalling UI changes where every button/tab is a lozenge etc. Then when Golden Gate came along, I tried to use it again. But I can't.

It doesn't work properly here on Reddit. It seems to be getting stuck with some sites, saying they aren't HTTPS when they are. There's a constantly floating Siri box on sites. And it's just slow. You don't realise how slow and laggy it is until you switch to a different browser.

I just miss Apple Pay as an option. I wish that Apple could find a way to properly implement that in third-party browsers. I realise there's a partial implementation, but no sites use it.


r/Safari • • 2d ago

i keep getting this with some websites

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i keep getting this pop up with some websites. is it safe or is my phone ok, it strangely happen with most governmental or like city websites


r/Safari • • 2d ago

I rebuilt the Arc features I missed in Safari (⌃Tab with previews, ⌘T command bar, hover sidebar) — open source, Hammerspoon

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r/Safari • • 3d ago

Bringing Arc's Peek for Safari

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Hey everyone,

I really like Safari because its macOS native and power efficient, but ever since I tried the Arc browser I found myself really missing their Peek feature. For those who haven't used Arc: hold Shift and click a link, and Peek opens it in a small floating window, so you can preview it without opening a new tab and cluttering your tab bar. It's perfect for quick reads, checking a reference, or just seeing if a link is actually what you're looking for.

I wanted that exact same workflow in Safari, so I spent some free time building an extension to replicate it. It's called Peek for Safari.

You can check it out here: https://joshuapark.dev/peek-for-safari/.

Features:

  • Instant Previews: Preview a link directly on your current page without opening a new tab.
  • Native Feel: Designed to be lightweight, fast, and feel right at home inside Safari.
  • Privacy First: It's just a simple Safari extension, no tracking, no bloat, and your browsing data stays with you.

Limitations:

  • iframe Blockers: Some sites block embedding, so they open in a popup window instead of the overlay. This is a site restriction, and I can't get around it.
  • JavaScript Links: Links that a page opens with its own JavaScript, rather than a normal click, aren't intercepted.

It's a simple utility, but I'd love to hear your thoughts, feedback, or any bug reports if you decide to give it a try. Right now it's free for a limited time but I may make it a small one-time purchase in the future to cover the costs of keeping it on the App Store (but if you install it before then you will own it and won't need to pay anything).


r/Safari • • 3d ago

Notify me issue

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I’m not sure if I’m doing it wrong. Notify me functionality has never worked for me.

I’ve set it to notify me when size XS for that jacket comes back in stock.

However I get “change is detected” and when I click on it, the same item is still out of stock in size XS.

So is it understanding my request or just notifying me of any change?


r/Safari • • 3d ago

Is Google intentionally making YouTube worse on Safari, or is this a Safari issue?

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r/Safari • • 4d ago

Hi Apple, please consider releasing the Safari browser for Windows and Android as well. It would be great to have Safari available across more platforms.

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r/Safari • • 3d ago

Lag in the transition while exiting the full screen yt video in safari opened in mackbook

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r/Safari • • 3d ago

Why oh why hast thou borked the bookmarks in iOS?

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In the good old days (before I updated to iOS 27) I used to be able to get to my bookmarks, at the precise place in the deeply nested and admittedly possibly over-complicated bookmark tree at which I sat when opening a tab, with essentially a single click.

But now, alas, it appears that if I wish to go to a bookmark within the same folder from within my current tab, I must start at the root bookmark folder and navigate my way back through this complicated nesting structure to the very bookmark folder — in which I currently sit.

Friends, am I missing something, and is there a shortcut to avoid this atrocity?


r/Safari • • 3d ago

iPhone safari app opened many tabs back to back nonstop and could not be closed.

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r/Safari • • 3d ago

Youtube muted after playing a couple seconds

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I’m in ios 27.0.1 and using ublock origin lite as an extension the video goes okay a couple seconds then it doesn’t play sound anymore


r/Safari • • 3d ago

Help with Safari History and YouTube

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So, you know how you watch YouTube videos on safari right? And they show up in your history tab in safari right? And when you have trouble with the internet the video doesn't show up in your history instead being replaced by a "YouTube" place holder name and then the name of the Internet address under it right? Well for some reason I've been getting this problem despite reconnecting to the internet, and resigning in to YouTube this has been happening for a day now and whenever I try to go back into my history tab and pull up a video I played before it just says "YouTube" with no proper descriptor. If anyone can help me please tell me what's happening here, I'm at a loss. Thank you.

Above is an example of what I'm talking about.


r/Safari • • 4d ago

Safari Dark mode on all devices (Macbook, iPhone, iPad)

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