Update12/13/2025

6Added support for automatically scrolling off-screen

Safari
Apple

Safari 26.2 Release Notes
Released December 12, 2025 — 26.2 (20623.1.14)

Overview
Safari 26.2 is available for iOS 26.2, iPadOS 26.2, visionOS 26.2, macOS 26.2, macOS Sequoia, and macOS Sonoma.

Accessibility
New Features3

Added support for automatically scrolling off-screen <input type="radio"></input> elements into view when they are focused, improving accessibility for users navigating with screen readers or keyboard shortcuts. (55121458)
Added support for aria-colindextext and aria-rowindextext to provide human-readable alternatives to aria-colindex and aria-rowindex. (109669421)

Resolved Issues

Fixed Voice Control number and name overlays not labeling content inside iframe elements. (118252216)
Fixed incorrect accessibility bounds of SVG roots, ensuring assistive technologies have access to the correct geometry. (153782363)
Fixed an issue where <label> elements targeted by aria-labelledby stopped providing accessibility text to assistiv=+e technologies after dynamic page changes. (158906980)

Animations
New Features

Added support for Animation.prototype.overallProgress. (155625287)
Added support for endpoint-inclusive active intervals in Animation.commitStyles() to correctly persist styles for completed animations. (158684709)

Resolved Issues

Fixed inheritance of additional animation properties (animation-timing-function, animation-play-state, animation-iteration-count, and animation-direction) in ::view-transition pseudo-elements to improve style consistency. (156131284)
Fixed animation-name resolution to correctly find matching @keyframes within tree-scoped and shadow DOM contexts. (156484228)
Fixed a bug where extremely large animation-duration values could cause the page to become unresponsive. (158775366)
Fixed Animation.commitStyles() so that custom properties are properly committed to the target element. (158919736)
Fixed Animation.commitStyles() to correctly commit logical properties as their corresponding physical properties. (158920529)

Browser
Resolved Issues

Fixed: Safari now reports a frozen OS version in its user agent string on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26, showing the last version released before iOS 26. (156170132)

CSS
New Features

Added support for the cursor property on pseudo-elements. (90364915)
Added support for the position-visibility property. (129789653)
Added support for the new math-shift CSS property to control compact or “cramped” rendering of MathML formulas, reducing vertical shifts for superscripts. (138023006)
Added support for the CSS random() function. (145696017)
Added support for @scope(:host). (153443869)
Added support for CSS tree-counting functions sibling-index() and sibling-count(). (155624960)
Added support for cross-origin() and referrer-policy() CSS URL modifiers. (155625162)
Added support for the safe keyword with anchor-center in CSS Anchor Positioning. (155767796)
Added support for position-try on pseudo-elements like ::before, ::after, and ::backdrop. (156550553)
Added support for :scope when the scoping root is :visited. (157588890)
Added support for non-integral decimal values in the initial-letter CSS property to allow fractional sizes. (157808105)
Added support for the field-sizing property. (157907105)
Added support for @scope implicit scoping roots with constructed and adopted stylesheets to correctly apply styles in shadow DOM. (158119016)
Added support for the scrollbar-color property. (158436083)
Added support for the generic math font family in font-family allowing better default rendering for MathML content. (158851931)
Added support for using color-mix() without a color space, defaulting to oklab. (159039709)
Added support for display-p3-linear colors in CSS. (159579630)
Added support for text-decoration-line values spelling-error and grammar-error. (160494378)
Added support for flip-x and flip-y options in position-try-fallback for CSS Anchor Positioning. (163497870)
Added support for allowing positioned boxes in scrollable containing blocks to overflow in the scrollable direction. (163595289)

Resolved Issues

Fixed -webkit-user-select: none disabling find-in-page in Safari. (8081660)
Fixed incorrect z-ordering for position: sticky elements. (90572595)
Fixed getComputedStyle to correctly ignore ::first-letter and ::first-line styles on flex containers, to reflect used style. (94163778)
Fixed style invalidation so that :scope selectors always match even when the scoping root is unavailable. (135907710)
Fixed propagation of the body element’s writing-mode to the document element to match the CSS Writing Modes Level 4 specification. (149475070)
Fixed @position-try so that revert-layer correctly only reverts the position-try origin instead of affecting other cascade origins. (154355428)
Fixed positioned boxes in scrollable containing blocks to overflow in scrollable direction. (155625030)
Fixed anchor-center so that when an anchored element has no anchor in the same containing block, it correctly falls back to behaving like center as specified. (155768216)
Fixed anchor() positioning in CSS Grid to correctly account for grid-area. (155823420)
Fixed the default computed value for text-emphasis-style: filled|open to be filled|open circle not filled|open dot in horizontal typographic modes. (155911820)
Fixed the text-decoration shorthand to cover all four longhand properties. (156011594)
Fixed an issue where @namespace rules that failed insertion could still affect the namespace node. (156651404)
Fixed incorrect handling of auto inline margins on grid items during track sizing that caused excessive vertical spacing in subgrids. (157638931)
Fixed automatic min-size handling for flex and grid items to correctly treat overflow: clip as non-scrollable, aligning with the CSS specifications. (158215991)
Fixed incorrect baseline alignment for <button> elements when contain: layout is applied by using the content box as the baseline. (159007878)
Fixed out-of-flow box with no sibling ignoring align-content. (159097576)
Fixed CSS anchor positioning to remember the last successful position option at ResizeObserver delivery time, aligning with the spec. (159225250)
Fixed handling of the ::first-line pseudo-element when floats prevent the initial line from containing inline content, ensuring correct styling is applied to the actual first formatted line. (159613287)
Fixed an issue where collapsed table rows subtracted border-spacing twice. (160542118)
Fixed ::view-transition pseudo-element to use position: absolute instead of fixed to align with the updated specification. (160622000)
Fixed container queries to allow container-name matching across the full flat tree, making container names tree-scoped in line with the CSS Conditional 5 specification. (160696378)
Fixed handling of ::first-letter pseudo-elements to always force inline display unless floated.(160710650)
Fixed the behavior of the nesting selector & directly inside @scope to correctly act like :where(:scope) for proper specificity handling. (160769736)
Fixed position-try-fallback resolution by treating names as tree-scoped references to properly search shadow DOM host scopes. (161081231)
Fixed an issue where a <select> element with long <option> text caused horizontal scrolling when nested inside a flex item. (161563289)
Fixed getComputedStyle to return numeric values for orphans and widows instead of the internal auto value, ensuring the computed values correctly reflect the CSS specification. (161566631)
Fixed column-count: 1 so that it now correctly creates a multi-column container per the CSS Multi-column Layout specification. (161611444)
Fixed the calculation of anchor positions in vertical-rl multi-column layouts by correctly flipping coordinates in fragmented flows. (161616545)
Fixed the order to try anchor position fallback options, such that the last successful position option is tried first, followed by the original style, and then the remaining options. (161714637)
Fixed position-area handling to include the in-flow scrollable area of the initial containing block. (161741583)
Fixed position-visibility: no-overflow to respond correctly to scrolling. (162173481)
Fixed: Renamed position-area keywords from x-self-start, x-self-end, y-self-start, and y-self-end to self-x-start, self-x-end, self-y-start, and self-y-end respectively to align with updated CSSWG specifications.(162214793)
Fixed auto margins by converting them to zero when position-area or anchor-center is applied in CSS Anchor Positioning. (162809291)
Fixed FontFace.family so that font family names with spaces are treated as plain strings without parsing or serializing aligning with other browsers. (163047573)
Fixed flex and grid layout to correctly handle padding and margins in all writing modes. (163048874)
Fixed an issue where underlines using text-underline-position: right appeared on top of the text in horizontal writing modes instead of under the line. (163506701)
Fixed an infinite style resolution loop when a position-try box was inside a display: none tree. (163691875)/
Fixed position-area alignment so that when only one inset is set to auto, the element now aligns toward the opposite non-auto inset. (163691905)
Fixed text-decoration-thickness and text-underline-offset not working in vertical writing modes. (163727749)9
Fixed an issue where scrollRectToVisible() did not scroll pages to bring fixed anchor-positioned boxes into view when navigating with the keyboard. (163764088)6
Fixed an issue where anchor-positioned elements transitioning from display: block to display: none can not anchor themselves to the anchor. (163861918)6
Fixed incorrect underline positioning for text-decoration when inline box sides are trimmed. (163909909)

Canvas
Deprecations

Removed non-standard legacy drawImageFromRect. (141681635)

DOM
Resolved Issues

Fixed an issue where command-clicking to open a link in a new tab navigates the current tab. (57216935)

Editing
Resolved Issues

Fixed jumbled text when copy/pasting bidirectional text starting with left-to-right. (152236717)
Fixed paste performance in textarea by skipping unnecessary layout calls and only removing unrendered text nodes in richly editable fields. (157813510)

Events
Resolved Issues

Fixed boundary pointer and mouse events not firing when the hit test target changed under a stationary pointer. (160147423)

Forms
New Features

Added support for form controls to preserve legibility when using accent-color in both light and dark modes. (99018889)
Added support for normalizing full-width digits, minus signs, and full-width dots to ASCII in <input type="number"></input> fields, immediately rejecting disallowed characters. (141257181)

Resolved Issues

Fixed an issue where some websites may sometimes fail to reveal the focused element when the keyboard appears. (50384887)
Fixed input fields with field-sizing: content so that larger placeholder text now correctly expands the height of the field by including the placeholder’s computed height. (123125836)
Fixed <select> element with long <option> text causing horizontal scrolling in grid or flex containers. (141633685)
Fixed an issue on iOS where backing out of the “Take a photo/video” file upload flow caused the upload button to stop working. (157789623)
Fixed painting for <input type="range"></input> sliders in right-to-left vertical block writing modes. (158567821)
Fixed an issue where tainted scripts were blocked from reading values of form fields they created, now allowing access if the field was not modified by user input. (163299988)

HTML
New Features

Added support for displaying HTML title attribute tooltips on Catalyst. (79416560)
Added support for command and commandfor attributes on buttons to provide a declarative way to control popovers and dialogs. (147442565)
Added support for hidden=until-found and the beforematch event. (157348946)
Added auto-expanding details element. (157349077)

Resolved Issues

Fixed an issue where navigating to :~:text fragments on dynamically generated pages did not highlight or scroll to the fragment. (150880542)

Home Screen Web Apps
Resolved Issues

Fixed an issue where an audio element failed to play when re-opening a Home Screen Web App. (155336513)

Images
Resolved Issues

Fixed HDR images in CSS backgrounds, CSS borders and inside SVG images so they are now properly decoded and rendered in HDR mode. (158076668)

JavaScript
New Features

Added support for Math.sumPrecise. (155642395)
Added support for Map.prototype.getOrInsert, WeakMap.prototype.getOrInsert, and related methods enabling easier insertion of default values into Maps and WeakMaps. (157176714)
Added support for including Promise.race in async stack traces. (161700216)
Added support for including Promise.allSettled in async stack traces. (162266189)

Resolved Issues

Fixed non-standard new Date(2024-12-3) yielding to an “Invalid Date” error. (141044926)
Fixed “text/json/json+json” to be considered an invalid JSON MIME type. (154912716)
Fixed compatibility issues with the timezone option in the Intl.DateTimeFormat constructor. (156148700)
Fixed Intl.Local#language to return "und" if the language subtag is "und". (156248659)
Fixed Intl to support non-continental timezones to align with the specification. (156424446)
Fixed exception check errors by adding a missing exception check for Array#flat. (157525399)
Fixed an issue where the module loader would incorrectly attempt to refetch a module after a failed fetch. (158084942)
Fixed Iterator.prototype.flatMap to properly handle iterators without a return method. (158783404)
Fixed poor error messages for destructing null or undefined values. (159340067)
Fixed TypeError messages to be clearer in for-of loops. (159814766)
Fixed TypeError messages when calling class or function constructors without new to include the constructor name. (161152354)

MathML
Resolved Issues

Fixed rendering of unknown MathML elements so they now behave like mrow as required by the MathML Core specification. (148593275)
Fixed mfenced elements to render like mrow. (161416576)

Media
Resolved Issues

Fixed western Arabic numbers being displayed in the video viewer instead of eastern Arabic numbers. (141281469)
Fixed WebVTT line-height to be normal by default, not 1. (156633220)
Fixed handling of null media accessibility caption profile. (159134245)
Fixed hiding and resuming a webm video that sometimes causes a decoding error. (159508950)
Fixed MediaRecorder to no longer fire erroneous error events when stopped immediately after track changes, aligning behavior with Chrome and closer to Firefox. (161124260)
Fixed an issue where custom WebVTT caption text size settings did not propagate to cue child elements by moving the font-size definition into the cue’s shared <style> block. (162547969)

Networking
Resolved Issues

Fixed an issue where rel=preload link headers with a nonce could trigger erroneous Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only violations due to the nonce not being copied into the fetch options. (75060055)
Fixed an issue where apps that are mistakenly calling the WKWebView API loadRequest from a background thread may end up crashing. (162070925)

PDF
Resolved Issues

Fixed an issue where the active PDF annotation hover effect would remain visible after moving the pointer away. (162951528)

Performance API
New Features

Added support for the Event Timing API. (160970604)
Added support for Largest Contentful Paint web performance metric. (163498163)

Privacy
New Features

Added support for Cookies Having Independent Partitioned State (CHIPS). (154149154)

Rendering
New Features

Added support for text shaping across inline boxes. (162430932)
Fixed incorrect clipping of position: fixed and position: sticky content during view transitions. (154886047)
Fixed computing static position to correctly size and locate an inset modified containing block. (155650719)
Fixed alignment candidate to consider both first and last baseline item position. (155806707)
Fixed the cross axis direction in flexbox to properly consider text directionality when the cross axis aligns with the inline axis to handle direction property and flex-wrap: wrap-reverse interactions. (156540996)
Fixed <button> elements to use the last line as their baseline instead of the first line to ensure consistent alignment with <br>\n in the text. (157955703)
Fixed orthogonal table cells so their writing-mode is no longer forced to match the table, allowing proper vertical layout. (158221827)
Fixed an issue where exiting fullscreen could scroll to unscrollable areas. (158351089)
Fixed an issue where the padding end incorrectly contributed to scrollable overflow when the inline direction was flipped. (158529814)
Fixed word breaking so that a hyphen followed by a Latin-1 Supplement character (U+00C0–U+00FF) correctly allows line breaks. (158942361)
Fixed large inset box shadows to render correctly. (159888287)
Fixed an issue where sticky elements at the edge of the viewport could disappear during rubber band scrolling. (160385933)
Fixed an issue where selecting table cells could cause overlapping selections in flex and grid layouts. (160805174)
Fixed flickering of elements with slow-painting content during view transitions. (160886647)
Fixed an issue where elements with both opacity and CSS filter effects could render incorrectly. (161130683)
Fixed an issue where elements with background images were not counted as contentful for Paint Timing. (161456094)
Fixed scroll-to-text fragment highlights to automatically choose a contrasting foreground and background color to keep text readable on dark pages, while respecting custom ::target-text styles. (163166782)
Fixed an issue where fullscreen dialog backdrops did not properly extend below the address bar by extending the backdrop’s background into obscured inset areas. (163535684)
Fixed an issue where slotted text nodes could become hidden when adjacent elements in a flex container changed their display property. (163571747)

Deprecations

Removed UA styles for h1 in article, aside, nav, and section. (151455566)

SVG
New Features

Added support for the repeatEvent in SVG animations to align with the SMIL specification and match other browsers. (129919749)
Added support for the onbegin event in the SVGAnimationElement IDL interface to align with the SVG animations specification. (130609424)
Added support for the async attribute in SVGScriptElement to align behavior with HTMLScriptElement and other browsers. (151561361)
Added support for the hreflang IDL attribute on SVGAElement to improve SVG link handling. (160133102)
Added support for type attribute on the SVG <a> element. (160222206)

Resolved Issues

Fixed an issue where a dynamic change in a CSS property of an SVG element does not get reflected in the instances of the SVGElement. (98577657)
Fixed an issue where stop-color incorrectly accepted hashless hex color values like 1234 by treating them as invalid to follow the spec. (119166640)
Fixed SVGMarkerElement to correctly support the SVG_MARKER_ORIENT_AUTO_START_REVERSE value, aligning behavior with the spec and other browsers. (123453058)
Fixed absolutely positioned SVG elements to correctly account for the containing block’s padding. (127608838)
Fixed handling of word-spacing so that leading white space in SVG text correctly applies spacing at the start of a text box. (134941299)
Fixed an issue where SVGs with a 0px intrinsic width were ignored but now correctly respect degenerate aspect ratios and fall back to the viewBox aspect ratio. (156339128)
Fixed handling semicolons at end of a keySplines value. (156511711)
Fixed unnecessary rounding of viewportLocation in 'foreignObject' layout. (156740732)
Fixed <svg> elements to correctly calculate their intrinsic aspect ratio using currentViewBoxRect() when a <view> is referenced. (157445966)
Fixed SVGFETurbulenceElement to correctly fallback numOctaves to 1 for invalid or negative values, aligning with the specification and other browsers. (158988528)
Fixed an issue where SVG pattern tileImage could appear blurred or pixelated when zooming or printing. (159202567)
Fixed SVGStyleElement so that its type and media attributes now use pure attribute reflection, matching HTMLStyleElement. (159358585)
Fixed an issue where <view> element was not applied to the root element. (159705519)
Fixed SVGAElement so that its rel and relList attributes now affect navigation behavior, including proper handling of noopener, noreferrer, and the new opener value, aligning SVG links with HTMLAnchorElement behavior. (160724516)
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Security
Resolved Issues
Fixed parsing of require-trusted-types-for in CSP to ensure 'script' is only valid when followed by whitespace or end of buffer. (147760089)

Service Worker
Resolved Issues

Fixed an issue where service worker downloads are not being saved to Downloads folder. (154501503)

Spatial Web
New Features

Added WebGPU support for WebXR. (157250939)

Storage
Resolved Issues

Fixed WebSockets to correctly inherit storage access from the frame that created them. (147949918)
Fixed requestStorageAccess() should always grant access when called from a same-site iframe. (156545395)
Fixed Storage Access API to not be usable in insecure contexts. (157337423)
Fixed requestStorageAccess() to reject with a NotAllowedError. (157446015)
Fixed an issue where cross-origin navigations incorrectly preserved storage access. (158446697)
Fixed an issue where dedicated workers could inherit storage access from their parent document, preventing them from sending cross-site requests with cookies. (158814068)

Tables
Resolved Issues

Fixed collapsed table rows retaining nonzero height. (158276634)

Web API
New Features

Added support for fractional coordinates in PointerEvent and TouchEvent properties such as clientX/clientY, pageX/pageY, offsetX/offsetY, and screenX/screenY, while MouseEvent values remain whole. (9564176)
Added support for document.caretPositionFromPoint(). (144101675)
Added support for enforcing cookie name prefix checks in the CookieStore API to reject invalid Host-Http- and Http- names. (156373016)
Added asynchronous URL error handling for Service Workers. (157769176)
Added support for document.activeViewTransition to expose the current active view transition. (158089900)
Added support in the Cookie Store API for handling cookieStore.set calls with an empty string path, defaulting to the current URL path. (158319959)
Added support for the scrollend event. (158435888)
Added support for the Navigation API. (158642673)

Resolved Issues

Fixed an issue where the first pointerdown event was lost after triggering a context menu by right-clicking. (84787733)
Fixed window.opener being incorrectly set to null when a site-isolated iframe navigated to a new site, ensuring opener relationships persist across frame migrations. (117269418)
Fixed the ability to delete a cookie through Cookie Store API that was set through document.cookie. (142339417)
Fixed Trusted Types to only verify event handler attributes for elements in the XHTML, SVG, and MathML namespaces, preventing incorrect checks on other namespaces. (147763139)
Fixed reading the mutable field from the outer object instead of as a child of notification. (157475553)
Fixed location.protocol setter to be restricted to HTTP(S) schemes. (157607342)
Fixed scroll and scrollend events so they correctly fire on <input type="text"> elements instead of their inner elements. (157880733)
Fixed CookieStore methods to strip tabs and spaces from the names and values passed in. (157907393)
Fixed JSON modules to fetch with an application/json Accept header. (158176845)
Fixed an issue where click and auxclick event targeting does not follow pointer capture target override. (159477637)
Fixed the order of pointerup and boundary events so that pointerout and pointerover fire before pointerup when a child element is attached under the cursor. (160913756)
Fixed element.scrollTo and element.scrollBy so they correctly scroll text input fields by forwarding scroll operations to the inner text element. (160963921)
Fixed EventCounts interface was not maplike. Enables use of methods such as .forEach(), keys(), and entries(). (160968888)
Fixed an issue where mousemove events were still dispatched to removed mouseover targets instead of their parent element when the target was deleted. (161203639)
Fixed missing pointerenter and mouseenter events when a child element moved under the mouse. (161362257)
Fixed an issue where only one CSP violation report was sent for multiple enforced require-trusted-types-for directives. (161740298)
Fixed Trusted Types incorrectly treating null or undefined policy return values as null instead of empty strings during createHTML, createScript, and createScriptURL operations. (161837641)
Fixed attachShadow() to default to using the global custom element registry instead of the host’s registry when customElementRegistry is null. (161949419)
Fixed attachShadow() to use the global custom element registry by default when customElementRegistry is null, aligning with the specification. (161949493)
Deprecations
Removed support for the non-standard overflowchanged event. (71129110)

Web Extensions
New Features

Added support for browser.runtime.getVersion() to retrieve the extension version from its manifest. (161742137)

Resolved Issues

Fixed an issue where onInstalled getting called after every launch of Safari when opening a profile window. (147491513)
Fixed sender.origin parameter to match window.location.origin. (155884667)
Fixed an issue where Safari extension popups could open scrolled down and some websites could flicker during scrolling. (155965298)
Fixed an issue that caused the web page to crash when navigating to certain URLs with an extension enabled. (158180410)

Web Inspector
New Features

Added Largest Contentful Paint entries to the Layout and Rendering timeline and events list in the Timelines tab. (163600473)

Resolved Issues

Fixed syntax highlighting for JavaScript features like template literals, private class elements, optional chaining, and others. (107619553)
Fixed an issue where the Console truncated long string outputs. (124629101)
Fixed an issue where DOM elements represented in the Console could not be selected. (157015598)
Fixed an issue where newlines and indentation in HTML markup would show up in DOM node previews in the Console. (157225532)
Fixed an issue that prevented scrolling of the Media details sidebar from the Elements tab. (157768497)
Fixed an issue where accepting a completion suggestion for a shorthand property value would malform the combined value. (15910778
Fixed an issue where navigating the DOM tree using the keyboard would get stuck in a loop within certain subtrees. (159841729)<br />
Fixed an issue where the Sources tab won’t show contents of a script that contains a for statement with optional chaining in the test condition. (160617913)
Fixed an issue where adding DOM attributes or node siblings did not work correctly when using the actions from the context menu. (161577627)
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New Features
Added support for WebAssembly.Memory.prototype.toFixedLengthBuffer() and WebAssembly.Memory.prototype.toResizableBuffer() to enable resizable WebAssembly memory buffers. (147437929
Added support for Wasm Memory buffer APIs. (159305098)
Added support for Wasm JS String Builtins. (159679027)

WebDriver
New Features

Added support for the “Set Storage Access” extension endpoint. (158063011)
Added support for new endpoints for setting storage access permission state and granting storage access to embedded frames for specific origins. (158263193)

Resolved Issues

Fixed the navigate endpoint in WebDriver to properly validate URLs against the current browsing context and set the default readiness state to Interactive to align with the specification. (157031091)
Fixed an issue where element references nested inside Array or Object arguments were not properly extracted when executing scripts. (162571946)

WebGPU
New Features

Added support for using GPUTexture objects as depth-stencil and resolve attachments in WebGPU render passes to match the specification. (159952306)

WebKit API
New Features

Added support for exporting WebPage content as .png, .flatRTFD, .rtf, and .utf8PlainText using SwiftUI Transferable APIs.

WebRTC
New Features

Added encrypted field to RTCRtpHeaderExtensionParameters. (159279401)

Resolved Issues

Fixed camera indicator staying enabled even after ending a meeting or removing access to the camera. (