Safari's interface ambition is disappearance. The toolbar is a single slim bar, controls hide behind restraint, and on scroll the chrome can shrink so the content owns the glass. It leans hard on platform conventions, the share sheet, system gestures, swipe-back, so the browser feels like part of the OS rather than an app bolted on. Tabs render as rounded segments that compress gracefully and spill into a grid overview instead of unreadable slivers. The cost of this minimalism is discoverability: features live under unlabeled icons and nested menus, and settings are scattered between the app and system preferences. Reader mode is the quiet standout, stripping a page to clean typography with one tap. It optimizes for calm over capability.
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