Even more rumors of changes to core iPhone and iPad apps expected at WWDC25 just came out, including big tweaks to Phone, Safari and Messages. (via Cult of Mac - A 24/7 website publishing the latest Apple news, rumors, reviews, how-tos and deals.)

Since Safari 17 and macOS Sonoma, Apple's browser has supported favicons in the Favorites bar. Keep reading to learn why favicons can be useful, how to make space for more, and how you can disable them if they aren't for you. A favicon is a small icon that serves as a kind of badge for a website. Its main purpose is to make it easier to locate the webpage when there are multiple tabs open in a browser. Favicons can usually be found next to anything in a browser's interface that identifies a website. This can include bookmarks, tabs, history results, and search bars. In Safari, if you have the Favorites Bar enabled (View ➝ Show Favorites Bar in Safari's…

With Safari 18.5, included in macOS 15.5, Apple added Declarative Web Push, an updated method to deliver web-based push notifications even when a website isn't open. With Declarative Web Push, developers can display notifications without the need for a service worker, which preserves battery life for Web Push notifications. Declarative Web Push is more energy efficient, and it's also more private and easier for developers to implement. It does not rely on JavaScript, instead using a standardized JSON format that lets browsers directly display notifications without additional code. Declarative Web Push isn't subject to the same feature-breaking bugs and network issues as the standard web push, nor will anti-tracking prevention features disable it on websites that the user hasn't visited…

Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Services, reported a decline in Safari searches last month, attributing it to users shifting toward AI. His remarks indicate a potential major disruption in the search landscape, challenging Google’s online search monopoly. Aditya Soni and Jody Godoy for Reuters: ‎ Apple’s plans to add AI-powered search options to its Safari browser are a big blow to Google, whose lucrative advertising business relies significantly on iPhone customers using its search engine. The iPhone maker was “actively looking at” reshaping Safari, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, citing Apple executive Eddy Cue who was offering testimony at an antitrust case on Wednesday over Google’s dominance in online search. Cue said searches on Safari…

In iOS and iPadOS, Apple includes a built-in screenshot feature that also provides you with the ability to capture an entire webpage on your iPhone or iPad that you can then save or share with someone as a PDF document. By converting full‑page screenshots into PDFs directly within Safari, you can preserve the exact layout and content of lengthy articles, receipts, or social media threads in a single, shareable file. Using the feature also eliminates the need to stitch together multiple images or rely on third‑party apps, plus the text remains searchable and any images stay crisp. Here's how the feature works. Launch Safari and navigate to the webpage that you wish to capture. If your device lacks a Home…

Soon, doing a search in the Safari web browser might get results from an AI like Perplexity rather than Google. (via Cult of Mac - Apple news, rumors, reviews and how-tos)