Contents

Safari 14 Release Notes

Released September 16, 2020 — Version 14 (16610.1.28)

Overview

Safari 14 ships with iOS & iPadOS 14 and macOS Big Sur 11.

General

New Features

  • Added Safari Web Extensions support for macOS.

  • Added Webpage Translation for English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Russian, and Brazilian Portuguese. Safari will automatically detect if a translation is available based on your Preferred Languages list.

  • Added support for HTTP/3.

  • Improved Web Platform Tests pass rate for WebDriver, XHR+Fetch, Service Workers, CSS, and SVG.

Removed Features

  • Safari no longer supports Flash.

Performance

New Features

  • Supported incremental loading of PDF files.

  • Implemented asynchronous scrolling for overflow: scroll, and <iframe> on macOS.

  • Improved tab closing performance.

  • Improved IndexedDB performance.

  • Improved JavaScript cookie access performance.

  • Improved for-of performance.

Privacy

New Features

  • Added a Privacy Report that shows the trackers that Intelligent Tracking Prevention prevented from accessing identifying information.

  • Enabled full third-party cookie blocking, and the Storage Access API in Private Browsing mode.

Authentication and Passwords

New Features

  • Added a Web Authentication platform authenticator using Face ID or Touch ID, depending on which capability is present.

  • Added support for PIN entry and account selection on external Web Authentication security keys.

  • Added notifying users when one of their saved passwords in iCloud Keychain has shown up in a data breach; requesting a password change uses the well-known URL for changing passwords (https://example.com/.well-known/change-password), enabling websites to specify the page to open for updating a password.

  • Added support to Security Code AutoFill for domain-bound, one-time codes sent over SMS; in the following 2FA SMS, Safari only offers to fill the code on example.com, and no other domain.

    Your Example code is 123446.

@example.com #123446

JavaScript

New Features

  • Added support for the BigInt data type.

  • Added support for creating custom instances of EventTarget.

  • Added logical assignment operator support.

  • Added public class fields support.

Media

New Features

  • Added WebP image support.

  • Added HDR video playback support.

  • Changed to derive <img> aspect ratio from size attributes.

  • Support for the Picture-in-Picture API is now available in iOS on iPhone.

CSS

New Features

  • Updated image-set() to support all other image functions including image(), -webkit-canvas(), -webkit-cross-fade(), and -webkit-*-gradient().

  • Added :is() pseudo-selector support as a synonym for :matches().

  • Added :where() pseudo-selector support for specificity adjustment.

  • Added support for image-orientation.

Web Inspector

New Features

  • Added support for a bootstrap script.

  • Added a Sources Tab that combines the Resources tab and Debugger tab.

  • Added an HSL color picker with P3 support.

  • Added information about Web Animations, CSS animations, and CSS transitions to the Timelines tab.

  • Improved VoiceOver support.

See Also

Version 14