{"id":33757,"date":"2023-08-24T07:39:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T07:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/24\/chrome-is-testing-an-option-to-enable-bottom-placed-address-bar-on-ios-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T07:39:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T07:39:43","slug":"chrome-is-testing-an-option-to-enable-bottom-placed-address-bar-on-ios-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/24\/chrome-is-testing-an-option-to-enable-bottom-placed-address-bar-on-ios-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome is testing an option to enable bottom-placed address bar on iOS | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"article__featured-image-wrapper breakout\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\">Google Chrome is testing an option to let users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen on iOS. This comes nearly two years after <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/07\/27\/apple-tweaks-controversial-ios-15-safari-changes-in-latest-beta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple shifted Safari\u2019s tab bar to the bottom<\/a> with iOS 15.<\/p>\n<p>Chrome\u2019s change is currently in the testing phase in the Testlfight version of the app, as first noted by iOS developer <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveMoser\/status\/1694341869876986059\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Moser<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed breakout embed-oembed embed--twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Google Chrome for iOS updated with Bottom Omnibox Setting. It was just added to the Testflight version of Chrome for iOS.<br \/>Link below with more screenshots and info: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W8Lrnc7GrX\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/W8Lrnc7GrX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve Moser (@SteveMoser) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveMoser\/status\/1694341869876986059?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 23, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The change is optional, and users can switch the address bar style through <em>Settings &gt; Address Bar<\/em> on Chrome\u2019s test version. If people using the TestFlight version of Chrome can\u2019t see the Address Bar menu, they can do it by enabling the \u201cchrome:\/\/flags\/#bottom-omnibox-steady-state\u201d flag.<\/p>\n<p>Safari also lets users change the tab position through <em>Settings &gt; Safari &gt; Tabs,<\/em> but the bottom-placed address bar has been the default for two years.<\/p>\n<p>Chrome\u2019s change is yet to roll out to all users, but it will be beneficial to people who use both browsers intermittently to get a uniform interface. Also, bottom-placed address bars are easier to access with one hand on large screened devices.<\/p>\n<p>Google tried a similar experiment for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/2020\/05\/29\/chromes-duet-bottom-bar-interface-is-probably-gone-for-good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chrome on Android in 2020<\/a>\u00a0but eventually discontinued it.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/08\/24\/chrome-is-testing-an-option-to-enable-bottom-address-bar-on-ios\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Chrome is testing an option to let users move the address bar to the bottom of the screen on iOS. This comes nearly two years after Apple shifted Safari\u2019s tab bar to the bottom with iOS 15. Chrome\u2019s change is currently in the testing phase in the Testlfight version of the app, as first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}