Google paid Apple $20 billion in 2022 to be Safari's default search engine, per court documents. That's a $2 billion increase compared to the reported amount Google paid Apple in 2021.

In iOS 17, Apple recently made it easier to use alternatives to Google search in the Safari web browser's private browsing mode—but the company considered going even further by making DuckDuckGo ...

Let’s not forget that Google is also an AI search engine – AI Overviews are seen by 1.5 billion users a month and sit on top of many of the 5 trillion searches conducted annually on Google.

Starting from iOS 18.1, you can set ChatGPT as the default search engine in Safari. Here's how to use the LLM service for your browser queries.

Apple previously considered using search engine DuckDuckGo for private browsing mode in its Safari internet application, according to a Bloomberg report.

Buried within settings, where 99.9 percent of the users will never look, is the option to change search engines. Here’s how you can change your Safari search default on iPhone/iPad and Mac.