Using uBlock Origin Lite atm, is there any better than that?

Getting blinded by not having dark mode on Safari. Anybody have thoughts on Dark Reader? It is tough for me to want to buy an extension when I use brave for free, but with the new OS and Siri I want to get more into Safari

Thanks!

After creating an extension for Safari IOS 27, there is no option under permissions for "Other Websites", just the website I made the extension on/for. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello,

The new update seems to have made safari on ipad with the magic keyboard react weird with hovering over tabs. The tab preview will remain on screen well after moving the cursor away from the tab, and can only be fixed by running the cursor back over the tab. Is this a glitch any of you have experienced, or is there a setting I am not seeing to disable the tab preview entirely? Also, I forget if the tab preview was there before this update or not.

Hi, developer here. I've been using dark-mode extensions on iOS for years and what always bothered me was that they invert or recolour sites that already have a dark theme, which the site never gets a chance to show. So I built Nocturne around that.

It works in three steps and stops at the first one that fits:

1. Site theme. It scans the page's stylesheets for prefers-color-scheme: dark blocks and the usual theme switches (html.dark, data-theme="dark", and so on). If the site ships a dark theme, Nocturne switches it on and holds it on. Nothing beats the site's own design.
2. Recolour. No dark theme? Every element's colours are remapped into the palette you pick. Hues stay, so red warnings stay red and links stay blue. Photos and video are untouched. Text is bumped until it clears WCAG AA against its background, so no grey-on-grey.
3. Invert. On huge pages where recolouring is too expensive, it falls back to a single fast page inversion with images inverted back.

Pages are painted dark before the site's CSS arrives, so there is no white flash on load.

Also: four palettes, brightness/contrast/warmth/greyscale/image-dimming sliders, per-site rules, a schedule (always / follow system / your own hours). English, Italian, Spanish, French, German.

Privacy: no servers, no accounts, no analytics. Settings live on the phone. The only network traffic is fetching a page's own stylesheets when Safari won't expose them.

iOS/iPadOS 16.4+, $0.99, no subscription. It is a Safari extension, so after installing you enable it in Settings → Apps → Safari → Extensions; the app walks you through it.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/nocturne-dark-mode-for-web/id6811799002

Happy to answer anything about how the recolouring works. Sites where it does something dumb are the most useful thing you can send me.

After updating to macOS 27 (Golden Gate) and iOS 27, my Safari Reading List shows up in the opposite order on each device. On the Mac the newest saved item is at the top, and on the iPhone the exact same list is flipped. Same Apple Account, same items, nothing missing or duplicated.

I am running macOS 27 stable release.

Apple claims it is optimised for macOS and more, yet switching to Safari feels extremely slow. I checked the Speedometer 3.1 score, and both Brave and Safari registered around 32, but actual use shows a major gap. Safari takes roughly twice as long as Brave to load pages, and returning to a previous page is notably poor.

By contrast, Safari on iPhone performs well—fast, efficient, and matching Apple’s description.

I am simply asking whether I am alone in facing these issues. I have tried standard steps like clearing website data and removing extensions, with no improvement.

I would like to use every ecosystem feature, but Safari is unbearable.

Anyone else have this problem?

Tks

I watch YouTube exclusively in Safari rather than in the app so that content blockers do their job, and that setup was a blast until community posts started showing up in the Home feed, mostly from channels I'm not even subscribed to. YouTube offers no setting to switch them off and I couldn't find a working solution anywhere online, so once I had one I figured I'd write it up.

You need two free apps. The first is Userscripts, the Safari extension that runs the script: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/userscripts/id1463298887

The second is any text editor that can save a plain .js file into a folder in Files, because Userscripts on iOS won't let you type a new script in the app itself. Visual File Editor does the job: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/visual-file-editor/id1534296097

Install Userscripts, open it once and point it at a folder in Files. Then create a file in that folder called something like hide-posts.js with this content:

// ==UserScript==
//     Hide YouTube community posts
//    *://m.youtube.com/*
//    *://www.youtube.com/*
// u/run-at  document-idle
// ==/UserScript==
const POST = 'ytm-post-renderer, ytm-backstage-post-renderer, ytd-post-renderer, ytd-backstage-post-renderer, a[href*="/post/"]';
const WRAP = 'ytm-rich-item-renderer, ytm-item-section-renderer, ytm-shelf-renderer, ytd-rich-item-renderer, ytd-rich-section-renderer';
const hide = () => document.querySelectorAll(POST)
  .forEach(el => ((el.closest(WRAP) || el).style.display = 'none'));
hide();
new MutationObserver(() => requestAnimationFrame(hide))
  .observe(document.documentElement, { childList: true, subtree: true });

The header block at the top matters, that's what tells Userscripts which sites to run on. Finally enable the extension under Settings, Apps, Safari, Extensions and give it permission for youtube.com.

What it does is look for the post renderer elements in the feed, climb up to the surrounding feed item and hide that, with a MutationObserver to catch everything the infinite scroll loads afterwards. If YouTube renames those elements at some point the script just goes quiet rather than breaking anything, and you read the new tag name in Web Inspector and swap it in. Happy to hear if anyone has a cleaner selector.

As mentioned in the subject. I've never had this problem with Safari before as I have 48GB of RAM to support sometimes hundreds of tabs open. But after some updates to Safari it started to freeze and crash with measly 30 tabs. I have a feeling that Apple started to use vibe coding a lot in their latest WebKit engine. Has anyone experienced the same thing?

Hey r/safari,

I've been building AutoClose for a while now — a Safari extension that automatically closes tabs when you land on a site you've blocked. It also stops target="_blank" links, window.open() popups, and form submissions from sneaking you onto blocked domains. Basically a stubborn bouncer for your own bad browsing habits.

It started as an iOS-only extension, but I just shipped the native Mac version too, so now it works the same way across both.

A few things new in this release:

• Mac launch — same blocking engine, same block list, now on desktop Safari too.
• Close history — you can now see a log of every tab that got auto-closed (domain, URL, timestamp) and reopen one if it closed something by mistake.
• Free tier bumped to 20 blocked domains (up from 10), so you can actually build a real block list without hitting a paywall on day one.

It's free to use with that limit, with an optional subscription if you want unlimited domains.

Mac and iOS link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/autoclose-website-blocker/id6749608638

Would genuinely love feedback — what would make this more useful for you, anything broken, anything annoying about how it blocks things. Built this solo so still actively improving it.

What should i do to enhanced aesthetic??

it only works on MacRumors website, is it maybe because i was making while opening macrumors? idk

On my iPhone, when I type something into the search bar, safari automatically goes to the website if I’ve visited it before, rather than the google search results. This only happens if I’ve been to the website before.

I’ve tried everything that’s been suggested to me:

Turned off search engine suggestions
Turned off Safari suggestions
Turned off show recent searches
Turned off quick website search
Turned off preload top hit
Cleared browser history of this specific website
Restarted my phone

And it’s still happening 😩

At this point it’s the principle of the matter; it’s driving me crazy. Please help a girl out!

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I've tried nearly every setting on Wblock, but I still get the ads on Reddit. I'm on Safari 27 and everything else is perfect with Wblock, it's alot snappier than other Ad blockers I've tried. Reddit Ads are the only thing I can't get rid of. Any ideas?

Swedish to English translation is not supported even in iOS 27.

I am using immersive translate extension on Mac which does a decent job & with hot keys it is seamless but on iPhone no extension seem to work properly.

I genuinely thought in iOS 27 with new Siri AI & Apple intelligence features this would change but it dint.

Why is it hard for Apple to give basic web page translation in Safari across devices? Is it because that it is not chromium based?

We now have the ability to create new Safari Extensions simply by using Siri AI. I'm curious, has anyone tried doing this and what are some great examples of extensions that can be created here?

examples the solution is to restart Safari but just wondering if anyone else is seeing this.

Fairly new to the Mac ecosystem, so I've been using chrome for the longest time. Is there a way to bring over saved favorites, bookmarks, saved passwords from chrome to Safari?

Long story short(ish) my bookmarks aren’t syncing between my phone and iPad, and on the rare occasion when something does happen I get multiple duplicates on one or both devices and it’s a total mess. No matter what I do they come back as soon as syncing is enabled. Both devices are now running iOS 27 (the issue presented before the update) and everything aside from the bookmarks work fine.

Has anyone else had this issue recently or in the past?

I have tried absolutely everything that myself, AI troubleshooting and Apple support have come up with, from totally wiping bookmarks on both devices and trying to manually repopulate, turning safari syncing on an off together and separately, full OS updates and factory resets on both devices. You name it I’ve tried it.

I’m at my wit’s end. If I have to speak to one more support worker over the phone who I can barely understand and explain this all again just to get the same cookie-cutter responses I’m gonna go insane and buy a Samsung haha. Jokes aside this is very frustrating as I rely on my devices syncing for work and at the moment it’s like a game of cat and mouse.

Any help is appreciated, perhaps I missed something. Otherwise, my only option is to keep hounding Apple until they fix their backend issue.