Apple’s Safari and WebKit teams are asking for feedback on Twitter amid criticism of Safari’s bugs and lack of support. The team’s Developer Advocate (Apple Evangelist) Jen Simmons tweeted: “Everyone I mentioned is saying Safari is the worst, it’s the new IE.”
She then asks for feedback from users, ideally highlighting specific bugs and suppressing the lack of support for websites and apps. In response to the user who reported “the bug has existed for several years and never been fixed”, Simmons asked him to contact her through the link at bug.webkit.org or through the Feedback number on Feedback Assistant to investigate it more closely. This call for feedback has been largely answered positively.
In recent years, some users have complained about Safari browser bugs, user experience and website compatibility. Those issues came to a head last year when Apple unveiled a massive redesign of Safari at WWDC, drawing widespread criticism for the changes being “counter-intuitive.”
After months of tweaking, Apple finally dropped the changes ahead of the public release of iOS 15, iPad OS 15 and macOS Monterey, reverting to the previous Safari design by default.