

Note: there was a bug that reverts the defaults to Safari and Apple’s Mail app after rebooting.


How to change default iPhone email and browser apps This means tasks throughout the operating system will trigger third-party apps when doing things like composing new email messages and opening links instead of opening the default Mail and Safari apps. Up until now, Apple hasn’t allowed iPhone and iPad users to change the default account that the built-in Mail app uses, likewise for the default search engine in Safari.Īs we noted during the unveiling of iOS 14, Apple quickly breezed over the new ability to change default email and web browser apps. A notable change with iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 that didn’t see hardly any stage time during the WWDC keynote was that Apple will allow users to change their default email and web browser apps. Let’s take a look at how the option to change default email and browser apps works on iPhone and iPad in iOS 14.
