I turned on "Reduce Transparency", and instead of a fade, it turns the top and bottom sections of the screen into blank white space.
My "edge to edge screen" iPhone now resembles the last generation of iPhones with home button from 2017.
I turned on "Reduce Transparency", and instead of a fade, it turns the top and bottom sections of the screen into blank white space.
My "edge to edge screen" iPhone now resembles the last generation of iPhones with home button from 2017.
On iOS 26 (up to date as of this comment), the Orion web browser from Kagi does not have this problem.
It also supports firefox and chrome extensions, so you can use things like UBlock Origin and Privacy Badger.
It's that bad?
How about they give us back small iPhones with 4" screens then and whoever wants the fade can imagine it outside the physical phone?
On my iPhone 13 Mini, the space dedicated to showing browser content is around 4.25" diagonal with the Safari fade, so we're not that far off.
I've managed to avoid being tricked into upgrading to 26 so far, and every week I find a new reason not to.