--- title: Safari 16.1 Release Notes framework: safari-release-notes role: article role_heading: Article path: safari-release-notes/safari-16_1-release-notes --- # Safari 16.1 Release Notes Released October 24, 2022 — Version 16.1 (18614.2.9) ## Overview Overview Safari 16.1 is available for macOS Big Sur, macOS Monterey, macOS Ventura, iPadOS 16.1 and iOS 16.1. Accessibility Resolved Issue Fixed display:contents buttons failing to expose their accessible name. Authentication New Feature Added support for passkeys on macOS Big Sur, macOS Monterey, macOS Ventura, and iPadOS 16.1. See Supporting passkeys. CSS Resolved Issues Fixed dynamic viewport height units (dvh) not matching the actual viewport height. Fixed scroll-snap properties set on to stop propagating to the viewport. Fixed logical viewport units to properly resolve for font-size. Fixed containing blocks with a non-visible overflow incorrectly clipping position: fixed descendants. Fixed table user-agent styles to use box-sizing: border-box. Fixed elements. Fixed with appearance: textfield to hide icons. Fixed applying the readonly attribute to the correct types and

element. Fixed the content width for <input type="search"> to not include decorations. Fixed input type state changes to correctly handle missing or empty string value attributes. Fixed form.submit() to submit a single form to multiple frames concurrently. Fixed cloning a <textarea> to not set the initial selection at the end of the text content. Fixed not firing a select event when setting a selection range results in no change to the selection. Media New Features Added support for non-animated AVIF on macOS Ventura, and iPadOS 16. Added support for AVIF animated image sequences on macOS Ventura, iPadOS 16, and iOS 16. Resolved Issues Fixed some AVIF images not rendering because of their container format. Privacy New Features Added support for web-to-App Store advertising with SKAdNetwork. Rendering Resolved Issues Stopped propagating background on <html> with any containment. Security Resolved Issues Fixed COOP same-origin breaking forms after a back navigation. Fixed script-src-elem CSP in workers. Web API New Features Added Web Push Notifications support on macOS Ventura. Added support for capturing a specific window with getDisplayMedia() on macOS Ventura. Added support for Scroll to Text Fragment. Resolved Issues Fixed focus interactions between the shadow DOM and the <dialog> element to align with specifications. Web Driver New Features Added support for Wheel input source and actions. Web Inspector New Features Added support for the color picker to pick a color from any pixel on the screen.

## 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 Release Notes](safari-release-notes/safari-16-release-notes.md)