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> It stands to reason that Apple wouldn't have developed this feature if they weren't using it. Where? We have no idea. But they must be using it somewhere. The
by iruoy 1y ago
> It stands to reason that Apple wouldn't have developed this feature if they weren't using it. Where? We have no idea. But they must be using it somewhere. The fact that none of us have noticed exactly where suggests that we're interacting with webviews in our daily use of iOS without ever even realising it.
This is what stood out to me. I've never really suspected webviews and can't think of a place now.
- JakaJancar 1y agoI often suspect things in Settings, esp. account/iCloud section to be webviews, just based on how they load (icons appearing a short moment after the page opens for example).
- ciabattabread 1y agoWhen you tap some of the menu items in the “Saved to iCloud” section, they don’t have the normal grey item highlight that happens with the rest of the settings app.
- JimDabell 1y agoYes, those parts of the Settings app are built with web views that embed React Web: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30648424 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30648424
- mastercheif 1y agoOh so that's why they're terrible and often break with no error messaging or recourse
- JimDabell 1y agoProbably, but it’s not as if the native parts of Settings are much better.
- dcarmo 1y agoThe App Store app seems to be using web views extensively.
- monocularvision 1y agoIt is not. Apple made a big deal about the changeover a few years back.
- echeese 1y agoI assume they're going to use it on Apple.com, the same way that they were using backdrop-filter to simulate the frosted glass on earlier iOSes
- bstsb 1y agoaccording to the post, it doesn't exist on Safari
- alwillis 1y agoBoth Mail and Calendar use web views for starters.
- ivape 1y agoI’m sure there are many apps like the Apple Store app and parts of the App Store that pull in web views. That’s most likely what this is for. Probably parts of News, Music, Games apps as well.
- quartz722a8c 1y agoI’m fairly certain Apple Music makes pretty heavy use of webviews.
- galad87 1y agoActually it does not. It used to, but then was rewritten. The Accessibility Inspector app can be used to see what's the class of the UI elements, if you want to check.
- olivia-banks 1y agoI think it still might. I use it all the time on my laptop, and periodically if I do something funky with the network, the entire view panel says that there was an internal server error in that classic no-CSS Times New Roman font. Do you have a source for this?
- galad87 1y agoAs I wrote above, use Accessibility Inspector to inspect the UI.