iPhone16 ProMax, new OS just installed, Safari app: When I open Bookmarks now, the *entire* phone screen is taken up by a giant single tile of "Recently Saved". How can I make this small, or get rid of it completely? This is a 100% worthless function, literally *nobody* would ever need or want this anywhere, and it makes me scroll down to find my bookmarks. Simply infuriating.
iPhone 16 Pro Max, iOS 26
David987Ate wrote:
iPhone16 ProMax, new OS just installed, Safari app: When I open Bookmarks now, the *entire* phone screen is taken up by a giant single tile of "Recently Saved".
Come now, it doesn't take up the entire screen. It, along with the search bar and a navigation bar, take up about half.
How can I make this small, or get rid of it completely?
You don't. You can let Apple know your thoughts here, though:
This is a 100% worthless function, literally *nobody* would ever need or want this anywhere, and it makes me scroll down to find my bookmarks. Simply infuriating.
You're making the mistake many people make of thinking that your needs and preferences are universal. They are not. Personnally, I find Recently Saved helpful. Also, I don't let devices control me by "infuriating" me. But perhaps that's more hyperbole.
David987Ate wrote:
I can't imagine why anyone would ever need or want to know their recently saved.
You don't have to. You just have to accept that it's the case.
I am a highly educated and worldly individual with a degree in sociology and multiple advanced degrees that study marketing and human behavior,
And I have a degree in Russian. I'm not sure how either of our educational credentials are relevant.
AND I have worked for over a decade in customer feedback, so I have a *very* acute read on both public demand and majority sentiment around iPhone and app features, and on the need for user testing which - as evidenced in their entire history of product upgrades - Apple clearly has never done.
I think you may not have been paying attention to how Apple has been doing things since they started.
“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”
“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”
“Some people say, ‘Give the customers what they want.’ But that's not my approach. People don't know what they want until you show it to them.”
— Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, Inc.
And don't forget, "You're holding it wrong."
Apple doesn't do things the way you seem to think they should based on your "very accute read on public demand" but that doesn't seem to have been a big problem for them.
If you don't like what they do, there is absolutely nothing and no one stopping you from buying something else. Buy what works for you and what makes you happy. Life is way too short to spend any of it being angry about a chunk of glass and metal.
You should also give Apple feedback. Who knows, maybe they will appreciate that very acute sensiblity.
I can't imagine why anyone would ever need or want to know their recently saved. And I am not making any mistake about assuming my preferences are universal (ignoring your conflation of one single feature to *all* my preferences). I am a highly educated and worldly individual with a degree in sociology and multiple advanced degrees that study marketing and human behavior, AND I have worked for over a decade in customer feedback, so I have a *very* acute read on both public demand and majority sentiment around iPhone and app features, and on the need for user testing which - as evidenced in their entire history of product upgrades - Apple clearly has never done.
And yes, the single tile DOES take up my ENTIRE phone screen (how ironic that you accused me of assuming my preferences were universal (and calling me a liar), and here you are assuming your screen format is universal):
How to make "Recently Saved" go away in Safari Bookmark screen
