Not a Fan of the New Address Bar Location of the Safari Browser? Rewind !

As you might have seen on one of my previous posts, I recently upgraded the operating system of my iPhone to iOS 15. I wanted to explore whether there were any changes on Safari and when I opened Safari my initial reaction was “Wait, why is the address bar at the bottom? Can I change it back to the way it was originally?”.

Figure 1 : Address bar at the bottom in Safari

Apparently, I saw another person baffled by this on Twitter and thought of sharing a fix for this with you. The procedure is as follows:

1. Tap on Settings and then on “Safari”.
2. Scroll down to the “TABS” section.
3. Tap on “Single Tab” as shown in Figure 2 below.

Figure 2 : Safari Settings

Once this setting is selected, you should be able to see the address bar at the top as it used to be. This is shown in Figure 3 below.

Figure 3 : Address bar at the top in Safari

Hope this helps.

Notifications not Grouping after iOS 15 Update? Let’s Fix That

After updating the firmware of my Apple iPhone to iOS 15, which was released on 20^th of September 2021, I noticed that the notifications were not getting grouped as it used to on iOS 14. I would like to recommend the following procedure to get this rectified.

1. On your iPhone, tap on “Settings” and then on “Notifications”.
2. Scroll down and select the app where you would like to see the notifications grouped (In this example, I have selected “Mail”)
3. In “Notification Grouping” under “LOCK SCREEN APPEARANCE”, select “By App” as shown in the figure below if it has been set to “Automatic”.

Figure : Notification Grouping

The only downside of this workaround is that the procedure has to be repeated for all apps that you desire for the notifications to be grouped. (N.B. There were no issues when the Notification Grouping setting was set to “Automatic” on iOS 14).

I hope that this would be fixed in a future iOS 15 update.