If you can’t stand what the internet looks like today – full of pop-ups and ads – then you should Latest iPhone and macOS beta. Apple’s default browser can now violently and graphically eliminate pop-ups, video players, or entire sections of your favorite websites.
MacOS Sequoia and iOS 18 Beta 5 add a “distraction control” feature to Safari. Getting started is very simple. Just click the page icon to the left of the address bar and select “Hide distractions.” There’s another option that reveals all hidden items, although once you use it a few times you’ll find there’s no reason to go back.
mike rumor Be the first to notice previously unannounced features. Safari has received some improvements The UI in the latest iOS and Mac betas can play videos outside of the player in picture-in-picture mode. Apple’s browser already has a powerful Reader mode that removes most ads and pop-ups on pages, but we keep hearing Rumors about ad removal tools even before Apple’s latest WWDC conference.
Once you get to a page full of cookie prompts, pop-up ads, and video players, it’s clear what Safari is going to banish you from. It then plays an animation in which the page elements disappear, like atoms being vaporized and dispersed into the ether. We tried this on Gizmodo’s own site and found that you can remove almost any ad that appears on our page, whether it’s aligned with text or an ad that appears at the top of the page. It can also remove these pop-ups to sign up for a subscription on the New York Times website.
Please note that this will not remove the ads on the page. It will remove them from the current instance, but if you reload the page or click on any page link, you will see all the same page elements again. Safari doesn’t store your preferences, so ad blocker If you don’t want to see ads in the first place, this is still your best option.
