Over 1,000 bug fixes make Safari 27 a much bigger update than it looks

Safari 27 is now live in the stable channel for users on iOS 27, iPadOS 27, visionOS 27, macOS 27, macOS 26, and macOS Sequoia. Earlier this year, Apple showed off all the flashy new features that come with Safari 27.

We actually covered all of those features in our breakdown of Safari 27, including the new Apple Intelligence features such as the ability to build custom extensions in the browser with just a prompt.

But while the flashy new features are great, there’s a lot more going on behind the scenes that is also worth talking about.

The company seems to have spent a long time working on ironing out bugs that have plagued Safari for months, if not years. The release notes put the spotlight on over a thousand of those fixes.

A list of bug fixes might sound like the kind of dry technical stuff only developers bother reading. But look through the official release notes, and it becomes pretty clear how many of those little everyday annoyances have finally been fixed.

One interesting fix is something that you might have experienced on several occasions. How many times have you been reading an article only for the page to suddenly jump halfway down because an ad or image finished loading above you?

Well, Apple has addressed that with Safari 27 by enabling native scroll anchoring to stop that jumpiness completely. Apple says this prevents visible jumps in scroll position when new content pops into place out of nowhere.

Another bug that has been ironed out is something you may have noticed on Safari on your iPhone. If you ever tried zooming into a PDF on your iPhone only for the document to stubbornly snap back to the corner, that rubber-banding bug is gone.

There are fixes for web apps like Google Docs too. According to Apple, the update resolves the irritating bug where text selection randomly disappeared while editing or where typing certain characters caused the cursor to drop inputs.

All this is still just a small fraction of the total number of fixes that come with Safari 27. For those who want to dive into all the fixes, you can find the full list here in the official release notes.

Meanwhile, Apple also recently launched its MCP server for Safari to let developers use AI agents to help them test and debug their pages in the browser.

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