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iruoy | 5 months 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.

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JakaJancar|5 months ago

I 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|5 months ago

When 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.

dcarmo|5 months ago

The App Store app seems to be using web views extensively.

monocularvision|5 months ago

It is not. Apple made a big deal about the changeover a few years back.

alwillis|5 months ago

Both Mail and Calendar use web views for starters.

ivape|5 months ago

I’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.

echeese|5 months ago

I 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|5 months ago

according to the post, it doesn't exist on Safari

inc3pt|5 months ago

I’m fairly certain Apple Music makes pretty heavy use of webviews.

galad87|5 months ago

Actually 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.