iOS 7 brings a ton of visual and interface changes to our favorite smart phone, not all of them easily intuited from general use.
One of these is the new fullscreen mobile Safari. The web browser’s address bar and toolbar (at the bottom) disappears when you’re browsing, and you might have figured out how to bring it back by accident, but not in a systematic way.
Nothing sucks the joy out of using a smartphone than not really being sure how to do something, so here are three ways to re-appear that sucker on your iPhone.
The first way to unhide the toolbar and address bar is to tap on the top of the iPhone screen, either in portrait or landscape mode. This will bring you to the top of the web page, and then show you the address bar and toolbar along the bottom.
If you don’t want to go to the top of the webpage, though, you can also swipe downwards in the middle of the screen, and let go. Like a short, sharp swipe downwards. If you do it correctly, the toolbar and address bar will appear.
The final, and perhaps easiest way to unhide these bits of browser is to simply tap on the bottom of the iPhone screen. This will bring up the toolbars without moving the webpage, and without having to remember the swipe gesture.
All three will work; which you use will be up to your own preference, of course, but at least you can now bring up the address and toolbar without fumbling around, willy-nilly.
Via: iPhone Hacks
Rob LeFebvre is an Anchorage, Alaska-based writer and editor who has contributed to various tech, gaming and iOS sites, including 148Apps, Creative Screenwriting, Shelf-Awareness, VentureBeat, and Paste Magazine. Feel free to find Rob on Twitter @roblef, and send him a cookie once in a while; he’ll really appreciate it.
4 responses to “Three Ways To Easily Show Mobile Safari’s Address And Toolbar In iOS 7 [iOS Tips]”
Thank You! This has been driving me crazy and as you said… I didn’t know there was a consistent way. Apple needs to improve this.
Tapping the top while in fullscreen mode just shows the UI, it requires a second tap specifically on the status bar to instantly scroll to the top. Reaching the bottom of the site shows the UI as well, although not the fastest way.
This was driving me nuts for a while until I figured out that you can swipe down to reveal the top and bottom navigation bars. Good to learn about the other two ways.
This is some dumb fucking retarded shit, and I just made an entire hateful letter about this dumb shit on this stupid fucking iphone 4 with ios 7, and i accidently pressed a “cancel” button. It just fucking erased EVERYTHING. Why us?