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Comment by oreilles | Hacker News Reader

Placing the url at the bottom is brilliant UI wise considering the height of the average smartphone nowadays. And anyway they made this an option for those who wouldn't like it. The “mess" that was discussed in your second link (the hovering URL bar) was only present in beta version and has been removed from the release. Finally, CSAM scanning has nothing to do with OS security, but with privacy.

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I did not realize how much I needed this change in my mobile browser until I installed iOS 15 yesterday.

I already cannot fathom how we dealt with the URL bar at the top of these big phones for so long. It's been a long time since a major UI change in some popular software actually made me happy, let alone this ecstatic. I'm usually one to complain about unnecessary change (like Firefox's recent UI refresh)

Sure is - and Firefox has done that (while still allowing you to put it at the top if that's what you prefer) for several versions now.

> Placing the url at the bottom is brilliant UI wise considering the height of the average smartphone nowadays.

It's not at the bottom, but within the content viewport. Browsers need a dedicated "safe space" for notifications and symbols like a lock for HTTPS. A floating address bar over the content of the website could easily be faked using HTML/CSS/JS and abused for phishing.

Sure, put it at the bottom, but not as a floating pill over the content.

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