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[criddell]

My only Apple computer is my iPad and I have the opposite complaint. I've never installed a browser and don't really want to as Safari works well enough for me. However, when an app goes to open a web page, it opens a dialog asking if the page should be opened in Safari or Chrome. I'll pick Safari and check the box that remembers this setting. Then, a few weeks later, it will ask me again.

Why does it keep suggesting Chrome?

[tapoxi → criddell]

This isn't a system dialog, its baked into Google apps to try and get you to use Chrome when opening links.

AFAIK there's no option to set a default web browser on iOS.

[criddell → tapoxi]

Ohhhhh... that makes sense. Now that I think about it, it's happening when I follow a link from Gmail.

[PascLeRasc → criddell]

There should be an option when the box comes up next to not ask again. At least I have one on iOS 12 Gmail.

[criddell → PascLeRasc]

I check that and it hides it until the next update of the app then it asks me again. I'm using the InBox app (which apparently is being discontinued).

[sjwright → criddell]

Worse still, these options are a lie — it says Safari or Chrome but the "Safari" option doesn't actually open Safari, it just loads the requested page in an embedded web view. Assholes.