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Safari 16.1 Release Notes

Released October 24, 2022 — Version 16.1 (18614.2.9)

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 <body> 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 <select> elements with contain: size.

  • Fixed handling layout and paint containment.

  • Fixed handling font-variant: normal and font-variant: none shorthands to reset font-variant-numeric and font-variant-alternates.

  • Fixed small caps handling to prevent synthesized small caps if any character in the font supports small caps.

Forms

Resolved Issues

  • Fixed the ignored CSS color property on <select> elements.

  • Fixed <input type="search"> with appearance: textfield to hide icons.

  • Fixed applying the readonly attribute to the correct <input> types and <textarea> 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