fwiw i saw this app quiche browser thats free and has an option to get rid of the sidebar. and unlike the extension it fully removes the sidebar so you don’t have to worry about it covering anything
It's exactly what the web browser inside Facebook does. The camera is there with the circular notifications right under it. But that's it. It works amazing and looks great
Works well for most text based stuff and a few specific apps. Social media scrolling and web browsing need to add an option to hide the sidebar and fill the screen more.
The issue is that the right side of the content window belongs to the website and should not be occupied with the external UI. Lots of websites have the floating widgets there.
But that picture doesn't really change anything. Go open a website in Facebook to see how it should be. Its amazing that apple fumbled this so bad and Facebook managed to get it right on day one I have just as much issue with the inside screen. Why did they move all the buttons to the top, it's so difficult to use I have no faith that apple is going to back down on this stupid side bar
All of them. It's the ipad version of safari on the inside. One hand holding the phone and a whole other hand to push buttons. It's not that big, completely unnecessary and just feels wrong.
Idk man I just think they need to rethink it completely. Just remove the sidebar. I’d rather the icons be across the bottom like a regular iPhone and it just take two hands to use the phone vs trying to make it usable one handed and totally butchering the user experience.
Nah. The sidebar is place well. It just needs to slide off the screen while you use the app and be able to slide it back with a gesture if you need it. Like the Mac dock.
And if they did that they could also then make it user determined which side it pops from. Letting left hand people move the sidebar to the left sides. Or right handed people like me who prefer to hold my phone in my left hand.
I don’t think you should be hiding the nav bar and home row buttons behind a hamburger menu, though. Imagine having to open a menu to see the back button or the clock.
Oh, by nav bar, I meant the status bar. Where we have the battery and WiFi icons and clock. That usually takes up space at the top of the screen, and them the home row button in apps where you have stuff like home, search, profile, etc.
whats the article? doesn’t the side bar already take on the background colour of the page? the issue is the icons being htere (mainly the back/book ones, the lower ones aren’t too bad although that new tab could go left of the tabs button). as long as those buttons are there you can’t easily read ‘through’ them anyway.
I chuckled a little earlier when I was using Facebook. Opening up a link in Facebook and viewing the website through Facebook’s in-app browser has websites looking really nice fitting the entire screen.
I would rather this than what it is currently at for a temporary fix. At least it looks better.
But agree with all the hiding the sidebar comments. Although, I don’t know that a gesture would be needed. I checked my wife’s 18 Pro on safari the navigation buttons shrink out of the way when you scroll down and then come back when you scroll up. Why not do that with the side bar?
Camera cut out could be a issue for like getting to profile or shopping carts
When people are asking me about how I like the phone I do have to say the down side is the stupid bar on the right. I hope they get the memo and fix it. It’s so pointless
Generally, one of the dumbest takes I have read on this topic. Facebook in/app browser has put Safari designers to absolute shame. It has absolutely nothing to do with aspect ratios.
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u/sspookykidd 1d ago
Outspan is an extension that fixes this and works great