iOS 14 Bug Resets Safari and Mail Apps as Default After Reboot: Report

Sep. 18, 2020

Released earlier this week,iOS 14comes with a host of notable features, including the ability to set third-party e-mail clients and browsers as default in place of Apple’s own Mail app andSafari, respectively. However, a report now suggests thata bug is resetting Mail and Safari as the default mail and browser applications in iOS 14 devices after every reboot. The bug reportedly affects not only iPhones running iOS 14, but also iPads running iPadOS 14.

The bug was originally reported by9to5Mac, which claims that all links embedded with apps start opening in Safari following a reboot on iOS 14 devices even after specifically setting Chrome as the default browser. The anomaly is also being pointed out by many on Twitter, with some even suggesting that the user-set defaults are not working uniformly across all apps, either. Ideally, all links across all apps and services should open in the browser chosen as default by the user, and the setting should remain unaffected by any number of reboots.

I made chrome my default browser in iOS 14 and it works in mail but not in twitterific, and when you restart your phone it goes back to the Safari

Either way, this just seems to be a bug that should be fixed with a software update soon. Meanwhile, if you want to change the default browser from Safari to something else in your iPhone, you cancheck out our detailed guideon how to do that. The process is similar on iPads as well.

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