On my iPhone 13 running the most recent GA version of I click to open bookmarks I get the standard half screen of bookmarks. If I swipe up on the bookmark section it will go to full screen…we’ll 90% of the time. The other 10% of the time it scrolls through the bookmarks while staying half screen. I prefer the later but can’t figure out how to force that behavior. I’m sure it’s something easy.
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Safari Bookmarks and Scrolling
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Are you sure you mean your iPhone and not iPad? Because in Safari on iOS, I've never seen a half screen / split screen bookmark page - it's always the full screen (whether portrait or landscape) - even on my 13 Pro Max. Here's a screenshot of mine. Could you post a screenshot of yours as as half screen?
iOS 15.0.2
PORTRAIT
LANDSCAPE
iOS 15.0.2
PORTRAIT
LANDSCAPE
I can get mine to do that if I drag it down, but it won't stay that way - that's simply the animation you see when you swipe down to close the bookmarks page. If you drag them halfway down or less and release, they will pop right back up to full screen. If you drag them more than halfway down, they will close. As for the iPad, according to this, there is no way to make the bookmark page go full screen on the iPad:
On ipad how can I use full screen to view… - Apple Community
Maybe you could upload a screen recording if you are saying it is possible. I have no idea how you're doing that though!
I can get mine to do that if I drag it down, but it won't stay that way - that's simply the animation you see when you swipe down to close the bookmarks page. If you drag them halfway down or less and release, they will pop right back up to full screen. If you drag them more than halfway down, they will close. As for the iPad, according to this, there is no way to make the bookmark page go full screen on the iPad:
On ipad how can I use full screen to view… - Apple Community
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Maybe you could upload a screen recording if you are saying it is possible. I have no idea how you're doing that though!
That is totally bizarre. I have NEVER seen that before, nor can I reproduce it (again, I'm also on iOS 15.0.2). When I click on the Bookmarks button, it ALWAYS opens in full screen on my iPhone and always has for as long as I can remember. Now, you can use Reachability to move the entire app half-way down, but that's not what you're doing there, obviously.
I sure hope someone else chimes in and solves this mystery, because I'm baffled at why your same version of Safari would be behaving any differently than mine.
Here's what I consider the standard behavior. Notice the bookmarks open full screen. If I try to manually drag them lower, they either "snap" back to the top or "dismiss" to the bottom.
I sure hope someone else chimes in and solves this mystery, because I'm baffled at why your same version of Safari would be behaving any differently than mine.
Here's what I consider the standard behavior. Notice the bookmarks open full screen. If I try to manually drag them lower, they either "snap" back to the top or "dismiss" to the bottom.
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Try setting safari to “bottom address bar”. That’ll change it so safari uses half sheet bookmarks. I just figured that fact out
Ah! I had forgotten I changed mine back to the top (hated it at the bottom).
Note: For anyone else reading this, you can change this in one of two ways:
1. Click the "aA" to the left of the address bar, and select "Show Top Address Bar" or "Show Bottom Tab Bar"
2. Go to Settings > Safari > TABS | select Tab Bar (bottom) or Single Tab (top)
Now, why on earth Apple decided that the Tab Bar (which allows you to swipe between tabs) can only be at the bottom and you get "punished" with the plain old address bar (no way to swipe between tabs) if you move it to the top, I have no clue.
Also doesn't make sense why Bookmarks would open only halfway up from the bottom with the Tab Bar on, but not halfway down from the top with the "Single Tab" bar at the top.
But back to your original issue, I have no issue making the Bookmarks full screen. Just be sure you're putting your finger right on the word "Bookmarks" when you drag it up.
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