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Comment by ben30 | Hacker News Reader

On personal note, I had set lifehacker to automatically go into reader mode on iOS safari probably due to some time in the past wanting to read the content but fed up by how bad the site layout had gotten.

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Thank you for this — I had no idea you could do that.

iOS is too “intuitive” to properly document and share documentation for all the features they provide. It’s got a wide variety of power user features that come and go, and this word of mouth thing is basically how you find out about them. Try and search for them and you’ll get documentation from 10 years ago that no longer applies, if you’re lucky.

You just have to browse through Safari’s website menu.

It’s also documented in the iPhone User Guide: https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/hide-ads-and-distract... > Automatically use Reader for a website

They need to start shipping the documentation on the actual hardware. Imagine its 1995 and you try and release a bash tool that has no built in man file or documentation of any sort short of some page on your personal website. Bash users would probably call you a script kiddie and yell to get off their lawn.

The iPhone manual exists as an Apple book, you can have it on-device in the Books app: https://books.apple.com/book/id6443146864

Thats nice, but still not that ergonomic since you need to remember to now download a new book for whenever you upgrade your version. That could just be something shipped with the device in the settings menu perhaps to make sure you never have the wrong documentation in front of you.

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