Two-Finger Tap for New Tab in Safari iOS

[jesse_the_k]

It only took me nine years to discover this.

When you tap on a link in iOS Safari, the browser loads that link and leaves the current page.

To open a link in a new tab (behind the current one), tap on the link with two fingers

All this time I’ve been pressing-and-holding to bring up the context menu, and then selecting “Open in New Tab.”

Comments

[monanotlisa]

AHH! THANK YOU!

[jesse_the_k]

I am so happy to share.

(I can't believe I didn't know this.)

[killing_rose]

Oh thank you gods, I might actually touch a browser on my poor beleaguered iPad. (My father bought it for me for Christmas the year after it came out. It's a dinosaur, but I can watch hulu. Theoretically, I can also use it for knitting patterns, but Safari and I aren't on what you'd call good speaking terms. But this may help.)

[jesse_the_k]

If it's truly antique, may I recommend iCab Mobile? It supports older iOSes, and it lets you control your experience in every possible way.

[anatsuno]

OMG ME TOO! this is SO precious and good to know <333 thank you!

[jesse_the_k]

How did we not know this?

FYI: Windows, Chrome, maybe Linux too

[bibliofile]

In some non-iOS browsers, this is also a setting (possibly advanced?) within the browser itself. I only know this because I always change it to "open link in new tab but stay in the current one".

Re: FYI: Windows, Chrome, maybe Linux too

[jesse_the_k]

Yeah -- every desktop browser I've used has this setting.

Also, non-Safari iOS browsers have tonnes of settings -- the most amazing is iCab Mobile, which lets you control everything on a site-by-site basis, but Firefox (Focus), Brave, and other non-Chrome browser offer this as well.

[jazzyjj]

Thanks for this. I just got my iPhone and have begun using it a bit. Tomorrow is my second session with a technology tutor at a place here in Chicago. I've yet to explore Safari on the phone, , but I've flicked past it and VoiceOver announces everything thus far.

[jesse_the_k]

Hope your explorations are going smoothly!

[jazzyjj]

Thank you, yes they are. I just had a brief look at the Maps app yesterday and it seems very good. This is one of the reasons I got an iPhone in the first place. I no longer have very good independent travel skills except for riding paratransit, and I've been told that the Maps app used in conjunction with other things will come in handy.