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The datalist element is all fucked up on iOS. Again.
I haven’t “upgraded” my iPhone to iOS 26 and I have no plans to. The whole Liquid Glass thing is literally offputting. So I wouldn’t have known about the latest regression in Safari if a friend hadn’t texted me about the problem.
He was trying to do a search on The Session. He was looking for the tune, The Road To Town. He started typing this into the form on the home page of the site. He got as far as “The Road To”. That’s when the entire input was obscured by a suggestion from the associated datalist.
This is incredibly annoying and seems to be a pattern of behaviour for Safari. Features are supported …technically. But the implementation is so buggy as to be unusable.
I’ll probably have to do some user-agent sniffing, which I hate. And it won’t be enough to just sniff for Safari on iOS 26. Remember that every browser on iOS is just Webkit in a trenchcoat.
Time to file a bug and then wait God knows how long for an update to get rolled out.
Update: I filed a bug, but in the meantime it looks like user-agent sniffing is going to be impossible.
This content originally appeared on Adactio: Journal and was authored by Adactio: Journal
Adactio: Journal | Sciencx (2026-01-18T10:28:06+00:00) The datalist element on iOS 26. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2026/01/18/the-datalist-element-on-ios-26/
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