iOS 789: Our Favorite Safari Extensions - Maximize Your Browser Power!
iOS Today (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.1 • 616 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
If you thought Safari extensions were just for desktop power users, this episode demonstrates the game-changing tools and side hustles available right on your iPhone!
- Managing Safari extensions on iOS: Settings, permissions, and cross-device syncing
- Efficiently disabling and enabling Safari extensions using the webpage menu
- Privacy concerns when installing Safari extensions and reviewing permissions
- Favorite Safari extensions: Wipr 2 for ad blocking
- Noir extension for customizable dark mode and theme creation in Safari
- StopTheMadness Pro fixes annoying web behaviors and context menu issues
- Keyword Search adds custom search shortcuts for Amazon, Apple Support, Google Drive
- Amplosion redirects Google AMP pages to original sources; Achoo inspects page HTML
- Pipifier makes web video picture-in-picture; reliability compared to other solutions
- App Caps: Picks include Xteink X4 e-ink reader and Fullscreen Clock for timers
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Dan Moren
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| 0:29.1 | Here we go. Stay tuned for iOS today. |
| 0:34.1 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:35.8 | From people you trust. |
| 0:38.3 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:42.2 | This is iOS Today, episode 789, with Dan Morin and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Tuesday, February 3, |
| 0:51.3 | 2026, for Thursday, February 12th, 26. Our favorite Safari extensions. |
| 0:59.0 | Hello and welcome to iOS today, the show we talk about things, iOS, iPad OS, watchOS, |
| 1:03.9 | Hop. OS, and all the OSs that Apple has to offer, all the devices, gadgets, and gizmos, and our suggestions therein. |
| 1:13.6 | I am one of your hosts, Micah Sargent, and today, Rosemary Orchard is feeling a little unwell. |
| 1:19.6 | So if you would like, you could send a little get-well message. |
| 1:23.6 | By the time she gets the, by the time you hear this and by the time she gets it, |
| 1:27.9 | it'll be many weeks in it, you know, down the line and she'll be feeling better, I'm sure, |
| 1:32.0 | but it'll still be nice to have. In the meantime, though, I am very happy to be joined by Dan |
| 1:40.1 | Morin of Six Colors. Welcome back to the show, Dan. |
| 1:43.0 | Always a pleasure to be here, Micah. I am happy to talk |
| 1:46.0 | about every and all OSS's. OASS. Awkward to say. Always awkward to say. It is indeed. |
| 1:54.6 | So I thought today would be a great time to chat about, I think, a really important thing that, at least for me, I kind of forget is there |
| 2:03.5 | and happening in the background and I just sort of move on. And that is the extension game. I feel |
| 2:10.0 | like if you're a major Chrome user, Major Chrome, reporting for duty, if you're a major Chrome |
| 2:15.9 | user, you probably, or maybe even Firefox, I would say. There's a heavy sort of opera. You know, maybe a opera too. You know, maybe. Those other browsers, I feel like extensions are such a big part of it. And Safari for me, that has never been sort of first and foremost what I think about when I think of the Safari browser. |
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