I have an iPad pro, the newer design without fingerprint reader. All updated to latest. I have noticed this for a bit but never really looked into it. In Safari I cannot open a link in a new tab. I get an option for open in a new window but not a new tab. I have the option on my iPhone, latest updates. Was this removed from the iPad OS for some reason or is it something wrong or something turned off on my iPad to not give me the option?
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“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” Bishop Desmond Tutu
On the latest update, Apple changed “open new tab” to “open in background”.
That is it, no idea why they changed the wording when all it is doing is opening in a new tab.
I am sure it sounded great to their think tank in the Applesphere where they decide what is best for all of us.
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“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” Bishop Desmond Tutu
To be fair, there are two options is settings for open links; "In New Tab" and "In Background."
If you have the latter selected it's telling you what it's going to do. I suspect if the former is selected you'd see the text you're accustomed to.
I do not see to settings or options for "in new tab" and " in background" All I see is "in background" on my iPad. The iPhone has open as "new tab". So iPad and iPhone are different in their verbiage.
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“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” Bishop Desmond Tutu
I do not see to settings or options for "in new tab" and " in background" All I see is "in background" on my iPad. The iPhone has open as "new tab". So iPad and iPhone are different in their verbiage.
Huh, so happy they split the iOSs up, nice and consistent now
I wonder if the toggle is the equivalent to the two options on iPhone (e.g. off is "In new tab")
Huh, so happy they split the iOSs up, nice and consistent now
I wonder if the toggle is the equivalent to the two options on iPhone (e.g. off is "In new tab")
yeah, unless it is just a glitch with my iPad. Also if I was going to change this wording (which I would not) I would have it the other way around. The iPad looks like like Safari on the desktop, you actually see the tabs so to me it would make sense to say "open in new tab" whereas the iPhone is like a bunch of different pages which are stacked so "open in background" seems to make a bit more sense.
It feels like Apple is just making changes for the sake of change, not to actually improve anything.
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“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” Bishop Desmond Tutu
And this is precisely why Apple is annoying so many users it seems with their latest OS versions and their "new features".
- Patrick
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I just updated to Mojave and will stay there for the next while. Not ready to move away from 32bit support at the moment.
I started with Macs with the first iMac release and have been using OSX since 10.0.0. Every year it was exciting for the changes and actual improvements that came along. I think it was Snow Leopard that was the last great release that gave big speed improvements and noticeable refinements. There have been some little things here and there over the years but I really stopped caring about most of it and have not been suckered in by the company that has become so self righteous. You do not tell people how great you are, if you are really great people know.
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