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You do not recall correctly.

There is ongoing pressure to open that up and there have been changes to allow non-Safari default browsers, but at the moment WebKit is still the name of the game for iOS.

Appreciate the clarification, this sounds more in line with Apple's historical policies.

Of course it's using WKWebView.

It sure seems most browser makers aren't trying very hard with the WebKit thing to still be themselves.

Check out https://browser.kagi.com/ for one that wraps WebKit with web extensions and other goodness in a unique brand feeling browser.

And of course https://www.icab.de/ for offering a unique WebKit experience for over a decade now:

https://web.archive.org/web/20090426232408/http://www.icab.d...