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Dear Google. If I promise to set Gmail as my default email client on iOS, will you then let me keep Safari as my default browser when clicking a link in that ap
by unilynx 6y ago
Dear Google. If I promise to set Gmail as my default email client on iOS, will you then let me keep Safari as my default browser when clicking a link in that app?
- batmenace 6y agoNo.
- zepto 6y agoOf course not. This is why Apple didn’t allow it until now.
- lern_too_spel 6y agoThis is possible on Android today and has been possible since Android launched. I use Firefox as my default browser, and Gmail opens links in there. It is up to iOS to provide APIs that make this possible.
- unilynx 6y agoiOS may not have a central browser setting yet, but apps can still invoke other apps directly. Gmail on iOS uses that to offer a choice between Chrome and Safari, and offers to save your choice. It just tends to regularly forget that I told it to save my choice of Safari.
- lern_too_spel 6y agoOn iOS, it also has no way of knowing that you have installed Firefox to give you that choice, which makes using Firefox on iOS even more of a nonstarter than it already is.
- imkieren 6y agoI can select Safari as default in Gmail?
- bad_user 6y agoNo you can't. It's just a web view.
- livesinhel 6y agoWhat are you talking about exactly? iOS GMail App > Settings > Default Apps You cannot choose Firefox or Brave but you certainly can choose Safari.
- dustinmr 6y agoI believe the complaint is that I have to renew that decision regularly.
- bad_user 6y agoThat's not true, "Safari" for iOS Gmail means a shitty in-app web view, not sharing cookies, history or UI with actual Safari, Gmail itself acting as the "browser". This shady behavior (calling a web view "Safari") is one of the reasons I gave up on Gmail.