On iPadOS 13 URLs in mail open some sort of mini browser but not Safari. How can I adjust this behavior?
On iPadOS 13 URLs in mail open some sort of mini browser but not Safari. How can I adjust this behavior?
iPad Pro, iPadOS 13
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In the process of searching this forum and elsewhere for an answer, I was able to answer my own question.
The “mini browser” is the [Safari?] preview function of Mail. I didn’t know it existed before OS 13.5 To open a URL.in the full Safari browser, you must press and hold the link In mail and then chose an action from a menu which appears. Otherwise you see a webpage preview in a column. This preview can be converted to half- and then full-screen, if you know how. As the President always says, “Who knew?“
This seems to be a place where Apple has added new simple, unexpected functions and hidden the old familiar simple functions behind a haptic command (press-and-hold) in a more complex menu. My intuition would have been to keep the familiar as first choice and to have hidden the new under the new menu with a new method of access..
After 30+ years of using Apples, I wasn’t expecting to have to RTFM for this iOS / ipad OS upgrade!
Perhaps someone else can learn from my frustration!
