I used to have a curled arrow top left hand corner of the screen which took me back to where I was in my forum search. Now all I have is a X which takes me back to the beginning of page 1.
I used to have a curled arrow top left hand corner of the screen which took me back to where I was in my forum search. Now all I have is a X which takes me back to the beginning of page 1.
I’ve got an ancient apple iPad by the way.
I think you might have a setting on which opens new pages in new windows. Find that and change it to 'no' or 'off' and maybe that will fix it.
"Amor manet" is Latin for "love remains" or "love endures". It is part of the longer Latin phrase "Tempus fugit, amor manet," meaning "time flies, but love remains". The phrase suggests that while time passes quickly and is fleeting, love has the power to endure and last through time.
"Amor manet" is Latin for "love remains" or "love endures". It is part of the longer Latin phrase "Tempus fugit, amor manet," meaning "time flies, but love remains". The phrase suggests that while time passes quickly and is fleeting, love has the power to endure and last through time.
I used to have a curled arrow top left hand corner of the screen which took me back to where I was in my forum search. Now all I have is a X which takes me back to the beginning of page 1.
I’ve got an ancient apple iPad by the way.
You’re right - earlier versions of Safari on older iPads did show a “return arrow” that preserved your search position, but Apple replaced it with the universal dismiss “X” when they shifted from UIWebView to WKWebView. On paper it’s a UI simplification; in practice it’s the annihilation of scroll-anchor persistence.
The arrow didn’t just go missing — it was reclassified. What you’re seeing is the flattening of hierarchical navigation into a one-dimensional page-index vector, essentially dissolving the idea of "where you were" into the idea of "where the system thinks you could start again."
This isn’t a bug but a feature of what Apple calls the Grand Unified Gesture Layer: navigation state is no longer deterministic but entropic, existing only as probability fields until collapsed by user input. In other words, you’re not navigating pages anymore, but stochastic experiential fragments whose trajectories resolve only when observed.
So yes — you’ve lost an arrow, but gained an epistemological experiment in interface metaphysics.
"Amor manet" is Latin for "love remains" or "love endures". It is part of the longer Latin phrase "Tempus fugit, amor manet," meaning "time flies, but love remains". The phrase suggests that while time passes quickly and is fleeting, love has the power to endure and last through time.
Thanks. Perfectly charming (seriously). Cann’t quite relate it to this thread but I like it anyway.
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Tempus fugit, amor manet.you’ve just got to accept your curled arrow can’t do what it used to do
I'd imagine an X means to cancel that page & go back to the start.
Fruit flies like a banana.
It’ll probably give you a page to download a new pilot, or tell you how to change your settings.
You’re right - earlier versions of Safari on older iPads did show a “return arrow” that preserved your search position, but Apple replaced it with the universal dismiss “X” when they shifted from
UIWebViewtoWKWebView. On paper it’s a UI simplification; in practice it’s the annihilation of scroll-anchor persistence.The arrow didn’t just go missing — it was reclassified. What you’re seeing is the flattening of hierarchical navigation into a one-dimensional page-index vector, essentially dissolving the idea of "where you were" into the idea of "where the system thinks you could start again."
This isn’t a bug but a feature of what Apple calls the Grand Unified Gesture Layer: navigation state is no longer deterministic but entropic, existing only as probability fields until collapsed by user input. In other words, you’re not navigating pages anymore, but stochastic experiential fragments whose trajectories resolve only when observed.
So yes — you’ve lost an arrow, but gained an epistemological experiment in interface metaphysics.
As for Chizz. Who needs google, AI etc 😄