Safari back button jumps to top of previous screen

[pesos]

Now when I click back (back to a Google search, or nyt main page, etc) I stead of going back to the section of the page where I clicked the link, it reverts to the top of that previous page. Super annoying because of course I have to scroll back to where I was to continue down. I assumed this started with ios17 as it has only very recently been an issue and I just upgraded this past week - but when searching I found various threads about a similar issue on ios15 and 16 - seems pretty random but no real fix was ever verified. Is this fixable? Thank you!

 

[lafitte]

Same issue I could not find fixes for and to be clear is not limited to the NYT site. All sites.

Sonoma 14.1.1 Safari Version 17.1 (19616.2.9.11.7)

 

[learjet]

Yup, can confirm. Same here. Doesn‘t happen on all pages, happens only sometimes. Isn‘t really reproducible. But quite annoying. I think this (WebKit?) bug got introduced in iOS 17.

On Google.com it seems to a separate bug, on Google.com it happens every time and is reproducible. Seems to happen since Google introduced infinite scrolling.

 

[symphony]

I swear this has been the case for years. That’s why I rely on opening a new tab and just swiping back

 

[pesos]

Has not been the case “for years” - at least not with NYT. Was immediately obvious to me upon upgrading to ios17. I don’t personally have other sites where I encounter it that I can think of, but of course it makes sense there would be others. Super annoying.

 

[AstonSmith]

I'm still on 16 but I also get this on some sites, including Reddit and Google search. Definitely agreed about how annoying it is.

 

[Helmsley]

I get this when using Google...not when using Bing, though. Maybe it's a Google thing? It's annoying.

 

[papbot]

I swear this has been the case for years. That’s why I rely on opening a new tab and just swiping back

I’ve also seen this for a long time; it will vary between sites so, like you swiping back is the only way to get back to the same spot on the previous page.

 

[pesos]

bizzump. Seemed like this had maybe been addressed at least somewhat - seems like it’s now back with a vengeance (alongside a bunch of ***** that just makes iOS less and less usable, like awful changes to autocorrect, cursor placement/selection logic, and more)

 

[Blue Hawk]

It’s happening to me with all browsers since years