The default browser used in the mobile operation system iOS.
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Do people actually add webpages to their home screen?
Many web apps and even websites like to prompt users to add their page to their iPad's home screen. This is particularly useful for web apps since if the website is launched from the home screen, it ...
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Why does mobile Safari revert to “Never accept cookies”?
Every few days Safari on my iPhone (iOS 5.0.1) reverts to "Never" accept cookies. I put it to "From Visited" but it switches back shortly thereafter.
Discussion elsewhere suggests an Exchange link ...
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Can I force a cache refresh in Safari running on iOS?
Most Windows desktop browsers utilize the keyboard combination Ctrl + F5 to force a page specific cache refresh. Mac OS X based browsers tend to use Command + R. Is there an equivalent cache refresh ...
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How can I remove a site from the reading list in Safari on my iPhone?
How do I edit the items in my "reading list" in Safari? Unlike bookmarks, there doesn't seem to be an "edit" option.
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iPad/iPhone on iOS 5 - images don't always load in Safari, just on my network
This question is baffling to say the least, as I'm just not sure how to diagnose where the problem is happening.
Here's the problem: when I am connected to my network in the office (but not on other ...
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IOS 6 opens RSS feeds in Podcast app - how do I prevent this?
When I click on an RSS feed link in Safari in iOS, instead of opening the RSS page it opens the podcast app, which is not helpful and very annoying. Is there a way to disable this automatic redirect ...
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How can I turn on the browser's cookie functionality?
After I changed my Gmail password (on a PC), and try to login (with both the new and old password) on the iPod Touch, the browser shows:
Your browser's cookie functionality is turned off. Please ...
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Mobile Safari - link to MP3 and show album art?
I've created a web page that has a link to an MP3 file. When I click the link on my iPhone, the Quicktime Application opens and plays the MP3. It looks like this:
Is it possible to show album art ...
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On the iPad, how do I tell what version of Mobile Safari I have?
I'd like to know what precise version of Mobile Safari the iPad I'm using has. Is there any way to find out (preferably from the device itself)? There doesn't seem to be any menu in Safari Mobile, and ...
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How can you see the value of a cookie on an iPhone?
I need to see the value of a cookie in Safari on an iPhone. How do I do this?
Note that I'm not asking how to delete a cookie, or how to see that a cookie exists. I'm trying to see the actual data ...
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Hiding URL Bar on iPad?
I am working on a small web app that runs on controlled iPad (i.e., both the hardware and content is in our office and never leaves). I would like to hide the URL bar in this app. I've placed the ...
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How can I search bookmarks and history stored on mobile safari within iOS?
Within desktop Safari, one can view and edit bookmarks within a a hiearchical list.
For Mobile-Safari running on an iPad: How do you view all bookmarks? How do you search within Bookmarks?
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How do I play HTML5 videos with unsupported formats on iOS?
When browsing on iOS I find that I increasingly come across sites where the site's video format is not supported by by iOS Safari or Chrome. At one such site, the error reads as follows:
The ...
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How to make Mobile Safari open email links in the Gmail app?
Is it possible to make a mobile Safari open email links directly to the native Gmail app, rather than open up to Apple's Mail.app?
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How to mail link from mobile Safari to an Exchange address book entry?
When selecting Mail Link to this Page from mobile Safari, no Exchange address groups are available when attempting to insert a recipient ("Choose a contact to mail").
Also, Outlook Personal Contacts ...
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Importing vCards from a website into iOS’s Contacts.app
I have a web page with tables full of people & their contact information. I started writing a pairing of php & javascript to automagically generate vCards (*.vcf) for each contact. Half way ...
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Mobile Safari / Phone iOS 6.1+: Closing video sends timeupdate of “0” [closed]
It looks like Apple broke something in iOS 6 for phone. I say "broke", but they would probably say they fixed something. It may be the case that they are unloading the video when you hit done?
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Why does the Mobile Safari Browser on iOS not allow file uploads?
As already known, it's not possible for iOS users to select image files to upload from Safari on iPhone, because the browse button to display the "select file"- dialog is disabled. It works fine on ...
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How long does Mobile Safari keep read items of Reading List in cache?
In iOS 6 the Reading List features has the ability to cache pages for offline viewing. I'd like to know how long these pages stay in the ever-growing cache of articles. Since I use this feature quite ...
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How do I hover on the iPad?
Is there a way to hover over content in a web page when viewing it in Safari in the iPad? Specifically, I was trying to hover over the individual avatars at Ask Different iPad Contest home page. On a ...
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iOS6 Safari Developer Tools — Can it be done without USB cable?
The communication that happens over the USB cable between MobileSafari and Safari is a websocket.
This means it should be possible to get this kind of debugging working over Wifi.
I strongly ...
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Can you force a mobile site on your iPhone to show full desktop view?
Is there a way to force websites, when browsing them on your phone, to go into full desktop view? For instance, when I go to the NASCAR website on my phone, it displays a mobile version. But the ...
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Can you stream podcasts from the server to the iPad or iPhone?
So we are having a problem right now regarding the Lion Server and streaming podcast.
We already did the steps on technical note TS4126 and now we can play the podcasts made from podcast producer on ...
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Mobile safari won't login to websites on iPad
My wife's iPad 1 will no longer log into website accounts e.g. Amazon when using mobile safari, it just refreshes back to the log in page. She can get into these sites through the google app though ...
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How to switch to a tab in mobile Safari without it reloading?
Many times when I'm on Safari on my iPhone and I choose to switch to a new tab, instead of just displaying its contents, it reloads the entire tab. Is there any way to switch to the tab and prevent it ...
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How can I tell when Safari on iPad is using HTTPS
Safari hides the protocol part of the URL (HTTP or HTTPS) in the address bar.
When I'm purchasing something on the Internet, I like to check that I'm using HTTPS when entering credit card details or ...
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What is website data?
When in Settings under Safari>Advanced I see website data. What is this?
Also, what does a hard reset (holding sleep/wake and home button) do?
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Add bookmarklet to mobile safari
Is there some easy method for installing bookmarklets on an iPad/iOS device that does't involve syncing my bookmarks with a computer somewhere?
Examples showing the sync with computer installation.
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How to stop iPad/Safari from treating certain numbers as 'phone numbers'?
I've got some pages on an intranet that show numerical rates to 4 decimal places, eg 147.1453. When these pages are viewed on an iPad, some of these rates appear underlined and clicking on them causes ...
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Where has my Safari gone?
I have somehow managed to delete Safari from my iPhone and I can't get it back. It's obviously still on my phone, because when I search for it, I can find, and use it. Is there a remedy for this? Is ...
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Safari not saving password on iPhone 4
I have the AutoFill option enabled in my Safari settings, and I am not doing Private Browsing. However, Safari will not offer to save my Ebay password no matter how many times I log in. I have also ...
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How can I capture a screenshot of an entire webpage in iPhone's Safari browser?
How to capture screenshot of entire webpage in iPhone's Safari browser like I can take in my Desktop with Help of Firefox Addon called Fireshot?
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Why is my “New Zealand” bookmarks folder not appearing on my iPhone?
I am using iCloud to sync bookmarks from my iMac to my iPhone. But one bookmark folder is not appearing on the iPhone.
On my iMac (OS X 10.7.5), in the iCloud pref pane of System Preferences, I have ...
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Is there a quicker way to clear cache on Safari mobile?
Is there a quicker way to clear cache in Safari on iPhone besides going to Settings -> Safari -> Clear Cache?
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Downloading and uploading files through Safari iOS
I am aware that iPad does not have a file-system in traditional sense.
I want to know how Safari for iOS behaves when trying to download/upload files from/to a website.
Suppose I go to ...
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iPhone recompresses JPEGs when uploading to HTML page
Here's the test I ran:
Set up an HTML upload on my server. It simply stores a file byte-for-byte.
Uploaded a JPEG image via a PC. Call this original.jpg
Downloaded that JPEG from the server via ...
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Custom search engine in mobile Safari
At the moment I am in mainland China, using an iPad set to British locale. When I use the search field in mobile Safari, it always loads google.com.hk (not google.com or google.co.uk).
Unfortunately ...
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What arguments are available for the mobileiron URI scheme on iOS?
This concerns the MobileIron MyPhone@Work Client, I noticed a mobileiron:// URI scheme is available on iOS.
I was thinking of using this with a webclip, that directs a user to the right server for ...
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How to have links open in Google Chrome from emails?
Before switching to the Chrome browser app from mobile Safari when I would click a link in a email it would automatically open the page in Safari. Now clicking a link does nothing and I have to copy ...
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What kind of crash is this? [closed]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX80N-DYI4E
Here's what caused it: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10166441/drawing-to-a-css3-3d-transformed-canvas-on-iphone4-causes-hard-freeze
I'm basically just ...
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Bonjour bookmarks not supported?
I was trying to get Bonjour bookmarks to show up in Safari on iPad and I came across this post from 2008 - "Safari for iPhone currently doesn't support Bonjour bookmark browsing":
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Is it possible to use custom fonts in Mobile Safari?
I need to install a font in iPad2, and Safari must be able to use it. Is it possible?
Solution:
I'm developing a iPad2 app using a web wrapper (PhoneGap) and a JS framework (Sencha Touch 2). I need ...
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Can I prevent websites from disabling zoom?
I've noticed that more and more websites are disabling the ability to zoom on an ipad using Safari (or other mobile browsers, it seems).
Is there a setting to turn this ability off, or some other way ...
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How to “Ctrl-F” in iPhone's Safari browser?
Most browsers have a "search" or "find" function (accessible through CtrlF) which allows us to search the webpage for text.
Does iPhone's Safari browser have this functionality?
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Mobile Safari Browser and HTML5
I'm clicking through the internet and start being confused a little bit about if the mobile Safari Brwoser is HTML5-capable now or not. I wanted to open the webqr-Site on my safari Browser on iPod ...
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How to open native youtube app from a video embedded in web page
when I view a page on my iPad and there is a YouTube video embedded, if I click it I can watch it directly within safari.
This way, though, I cannot favorite the video, I cannot know the title of it ...
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How do I view title text for a web page on a mobile device?
XKCD on my kindle or phone just doesn't cut it. I do all my other morning reading from the comfort of the ivory throne, but always have to revisit XKCD when I'm at a full blown computer with a mouse ...
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Can't Copy Text in Safari on iPhone 4
In Safari on an iPhone 4, how do you select/copy text? I've tried holding down on the text but nothing happens.
For instance, https://m.facebook.com and click Photos. On the iPhone 4, I'm told that ...
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iPhone 4S Safari Scrolling
I've recently switched from Android to an iPhone 4S, and while it's great, there's a few annoying issues. One of them is when I'm viewing long web pages. On my Android I could flick the screen and it ...
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Why can't iPhone 4s connect to a specific IP address?
I built a robot a while ago that I control via the iPhone (video).
The robot connects to a WiFi hotspot and the iPhone 3Gs would connect to it via Safari and I'd control it from there. Now that ...
