iPad Pro 2021 Pro on 14.6 - Safari - bottom (go-home) bar never disappears

[pdoherty]

You know the bar that sits at the bottom of an app - it sits centered in the bottom of the display and is how you drag up to return to the Home Screen? In most apps, once loaded, that bar I believe disappears and only returns once you start dragging up from the bottom of the screen to use it. But, in Safari, this bar is never disappearing and is obscuring the last line of text when reading forums. This used to disappear (and is supposed to), right? Here’s an example with the bar in black at the bottom of an idle page while reading:

 

[AutomaticApple]

You know the bar that sits at the bottom of an app - it sits centered in the bottom of the display and is how you drag up to return to the Home Screen? In most apps, once loaded, that bar I believe disappears and only returns once you start dragging up from the bottom of the screen to use it. But, in Safari, this bar is never disappearing and is obscuring the last line of text when reading forums. This used to disappear (and is supposed to), right? Here’s an example with the bar in black at the bottom of an idle page while reading:

View attachment 1783815

Oh, you're talking about the Home Bar?

 

[pdoherty]

If that’s what it’s called - the small horizontal bar at the bottom center of the screen - you drag it up to return to the Home Screen or, if you drag it slowly, it shows all running/past apps. In the image I posted it’s the bar that’s running through the text “playing—online go and monitoring the”.

It just isn’t going away when Safari is the current app (but it does disappear as expected when running, say, a game).

 

[macphoto861]

I wish iPadOS had a systemwide option to disable this bar. I could understand its need when the iPhone X and first FaceID iPad Pros were released, since it helped communicate to the user how this new function of the UI worked, and I still think it’s a good idea to have it on by default, but there should be a way for experienced users to turn it off.

 

[PBG4 Dude]

Happens with every app I try in 14.6. The bar doesn’t go away once any app opens.

 

[doboy]

This happens on my 2020 11” running 14.5.1. Damn it, now I can’t unsee it.

 

[0128672]

It’s not specific to the Pros or Safari. Happens on my iPad Air 4 in other apps including Settings, but it doesn’t bother me.