Change the default apps
Want to swap Safari for Chrome? In iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, you can!
REQUIRES
iOS/iPadOS 14
YOU WILL LEARN
How to change the default apps on iPhone and iPad
IT WILL TAKE
5 minutes
APPLE’S iOS AND iPadOS apps are great, but they’re not always the best choice for everyone. That’s why the App Store is filled with alternatives: Carrot Weather (and until Apple bought it, Dark Sky) as alternatives to Apple’s own Weather; Fantastical instead of Calendar; Firefox instead of Safari; and so on. But while Apple was happy to let you install alternatives, it kept its own apps as the default — so if you clicked a link, it’d open in Safari; if you clicked an “email us” button, it’d launch Mail. That has changed in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14.