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I have a little tip for you; right-click your back arrow, and choose your search page from the list.

At least on iOS Safari there's this bug (feels like it's always been there, maybe content blocker related?) where sometimes a search simply gets eaten. The browser somehow thinks you went from nowhere straight to the page you're on, even though you went past a Google results page.

I assume it's somehow redirect-related and that's why these sites tend to trigger it.

I’m thinking of two situations:

- you tapped the “Siri suggestion” result which completely skips the SERP. I hate that “back” doesn’t bring you back to what I typed in the search/URL bar

- I regularly visit The Verge, open a story and then the back button doesn’t take me to the homepage but to the page before it. I blame their crappy JavaScript but maybe we’re experiencing the same thing.

Nope. It's as if that happens, though going past a regular Google search results page, which is dropped (hence along with the search itself) from history.

Nope what? I described that same thing on The Verge.

Confirming this happens to me too. I feel like I first saw it on iOS 10 or so.

Another tip: block js globally(uBlock Origin) and white list sites you trust.

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