With iOS 26, major changes come to the iPhone, making Safari completely different. This is how the browser looks on the iPhone!
iOS 26
Safari will receive a major update in 2025! Apple has presented iOS 26, with which many changes come to the iPhone. The operating system will receive a new interface, which we also see in many applications from the company. Apple provides a number of commonly used apps with a new layout, including Safari. From iOS 26, the renewed design with Liquid Glass also shifts to the browser of the company.
That means that you see much more transparent frameworks and that Safari gets a floating menu bar in iOS 26. In iOS 18 this is still a bar at the bottom of the screen, but the next software version changes. Do you opt for transparent applications on your home screen in iOS 26? Then you can also see this in Safari if you want to share a web page. Apple has not only opted for a new design in Safari, the application also has a new layout.
Renewed Safari classification
When visiting a webpage you can opt for three ways in which the menu bar and the web address are shown. You have the options between compact, top and top. With the compact display, the web address and the menu bar are merged into one beam. Under and great are more like the display of iOS 18, where the web address is below or above. Do you opt for upstairs at Safari in 2026? Then you have a separate menu bar at the bottom, the address bar appears at the top of the screen.
When you scroll in the tab, the menu bar will disappear automatically and the address bar is reduced. The overview with all Safari tabari also looks different in iOS 26. Apple has added five buttons to make the web browser as clear as possible. This way you can easily open a new tab between different profiles in Safari. Do you want to stay on the current tab? Then you can simply press the blue button in the top right corner.
Safari offers more privacy
With iOS 26, Safari gets a completely new design and a new layout, but that is not all. Apple has added standard protection against fingerprinting to Safari. At Fingerprinting, information about your browser and computer is collected by websites. On the basis of this information you will be followed and identified digitally, but against this you are protected by default from iOS 26.
Safari is therefore a lot safer from iOS 26, because it becomes impossible for websites to create a digital fingerprint of you. Apple releases iOS 26 in September, after the release of the iPhone 17. It is expected that iOS 26 Monday, September 15, 2025 is available for all users, provided that the iPhone has support for the update. Read here which iPhones can update to iOS 26!
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