2024 was the release of iOS 17.4, when Apple allowed third party browsers to use their own engine instead of WebKit/Safari as a layer beneath. So it could very well be that Firefox Mobile and Chrome Mobile on iOS don’t get registered as iOS Device in this survey due to their user agent.
2024 was the release of iOS 17.4, when Apple allowed third party browsers to use their own engine instead of WebKit/Safari as a layer beneath. So it could very well be that Firefox Mobile and Chrome Mobile on iOS don’t get registered as iOS Device in this survey due to their user agent.
This is only for iOS and the user agent will still report the OS as iOS. For macOS it was always possible to run third party web engines.
Even if true, that would only explain the difference for mobile users and not the decrease in mac os use.
No browser uses a different engine yet (presumably because Apple only allows them to offer this in the EU).
I was gonna say, I haven’t heard of any rewrites yet, and it is probably GDPR or some similar regulatory compliance.
I don’t think third parties engine-based browsers are even available for iOS, given that Apple only allows that for EU users.