--- title: Safari 16 Release Notes framework: safari-release-notes role: article role_heading: Article path: safari-release-notes/safari-16-release-notes --- # Safari 16 Release Notes Released September 12, 2022 — Version 16 (18614.1.25) ## Overview Overview Safari 16 ships with iOS 16, and is available as an update on macOS Monterey and macOS Big Sur. CSS New Features Added size queries support for Container Queries. Added support for Container Query Units. Added support for Subgrid. Added support for animatable Grids. Added support for Offset Path. Added support for Overscroll Behavior. Added support for text-align-last. Added support for the resolution media query. Resolved Issues Fixed gradient color interpolation with alpha. Forms New Features Added support for
.requestSubmit(). Added the showPicker() method for HTML input elements. Resolved Issues Fixed firing the load event after a form is submitted with a "_blank" target. Fixed contenteditable anchors getting stuck with an :active state. Fixed changing the value for stepUp() and stepDown() with out-of-range values. Fixed using min as the default value when min is greater than max for . Fixed making value updates visible for . Fixed making sure :active is removed on keyup event for radio inputs. Fixed applyStep() behavior to align with specifications. Fixed the select() method returns to align with the specifications. Fixed form data generated by when a value attribute is present. Fixed the FormData object to not include an entry for the submit button used to submit the form. Fixed invalid floating-point numbers that end with a “.” returning an empty string. Fixed selection range after the type attribute of an changes. Fixed selection range to be limited by the length of the current value. Fixed the user-agent stylesheet to include table { text-indent: initial } to align with specifications. Fixed the user-agent stylesheet to include box-sizing: border-box for . Fixed the line-height declaration to use !important for the placeholder of an input. Removed Features Removed most non-standard CSS appearance values. Accessibility New Features Added accessibility support for display:contents. Added Isolated Tree Mode to reduce VoiceOver hangs in WebKit by offloading accessibility work to a secondary thread. Apple Pay New Features Added support for allowing scripts to be injected into WKWebView that have used Apple Pay (and vice versa). Added support for recurring payments, automatic reload payments, and multimerchant payments. Added a way for merchants to provide order details that are surfaced in the Wallet app after payments are authorized. Authentication New Features Added support for passkeys on iOS 16. Media New Features Added support for non-animated AVIF. Safari Web Extensions New Features Added support for Safari Web Inspector Extensions. Added the ability to open a Safari Web Extension popover programmatically. Added the ability to sync enabled extension state and selected start page across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. Added support for declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess permission. Added support for browser.runtime.getFrameID. Resolved Issues Fixed incorrect counts being returned from getBytesInUse. Fixed background service worker to load bundle resources. Extensions that request the unlimitedStorage permission no longer also need the storage permission. Updated the maximum number of static rulesets to 50 and the maximum number of enabled static rulesets to 10. Service workers are no longer returned from extension.getBackgroundPage and extension.getViews. Security New Features Added support for the worker-src Content Security Policy directive. Resolved Issues Fixed blocking image content in object elements. Fixed incorrect CORP/COEP check in 304 responses. Fixed mixing strict-dynamic and unsafe-inline policies. Fixed script-src-elem policies in Workers. Fixed incorrect blocked-uri for inline scripts and strict-dynamic policies. WebGL 2 Resolved Issues Fixed handling AllowShared TypedArray. Web Animations New Features Added support for composite operations. Web API New Features Added support for Shared Workers. Added support for Shadow Realms. Web Driver Resolved Issues Fixed pointerMove actions to correctly fire mouse events. Web Inspector New Features Added support for inspecting Flexbox layouts. Added support for Container Queries in the Styles sidebar. Added a way to entirely block network requests. Added support for allowing request local overrides to use regular expression matches in the redirect URL, and response local overrides to be mapped to a file on disk. Added an experimental Screenshots timeline that periodically captures screenshots of the viewport. Added links to reference documentation in the Timelines tab. Added a proxy indicator in the Network tab. Resolved Issues Fixed breakpoints not triggering, breakpoints occurring at incorrect locations in scripts, and incorrect error, stack trace line, and column numbers when inspecting minified sources with multi-line strings. Fixed importing Timelines sometimes not scrolling. Fixed importing Audits sometimes crashing. Fixed CSS autocomplete to suggest the most commonly-used property, not the alphabetical one. ## See Also ### Version 16 - [Safari 16.6 Release Notes](safari-release-notes/safari-16_6-release-notes.md) - [Safari 16.5 Release Notes](safari-release-notes/safari-16_5-release-notes.md) - [Safari 16.4 Release Notes](safari-release-notes/safari-16_4-release-notes.md) - [Safari 16.3 Release Notes](safari-release-notes/safari-16_3-release-notes.md) - [Safari 16.2 Release Notes](safari-release-notes/safari-16_2-release-notes.md) - [Safari 16.1 Release Notes](safari-release-notes/safari-16_1-release-notes.md)