Your default apps are the apps your iPhone uses automatically in certain situations. So if you tap a phone number on a website, for example, your iPhone will open ...

Starting with iOS and iPadOS 14, Apple broke its long-standing closed ecosystem tradition and allowed users to change their default browser and mail app. While this was a step in the right direction, ...

When you set up a new iPhone, your default web browser will be Safari, just as your default browser on an Android phone will be Chrome. Apple went further, by insisting that competing web browsers ...

A Reddit report says Apple will allow iPhone uses in Japan to choose a search engine besides Google after installing iOS 26.2 ...

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To continue complying with Europe's Digital Markets Act, Apple has revealed when EU users will be able to change more of the default apps to third-party options. This will give users greater control ...

While iPhone owners have been theoretically able to choose their preferred web browser since iOS 14, it wasn’t much of a choice, for a couple of reasons. First, most people didn’t even know they could ...

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Several third-party browser companies have experienced a spike in iPhone installs since Apple made major changes to iOS in order to comply with the Digital Markets Act in the European Union, but many ...