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Apple exec touts hidden iOS 17 search engine setting during Google testimony https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/23/apple-exec-touts-hidden-ios-17-search-engine-setting-during-google-testimony/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Apple exec touts hidden iOS 17 search engine setting during Google testimony - 9to5Mac

John Giannandrea, Apple’s senior vice president of ML and AI strategy, took the stand this week to testify in the...

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Show threadDavid Schuetz ** looking for work **Sep 23, 2023
@9to5Mac I’m kind of disappointed that this picked “default” for private searches, instead of my existing general choice of DDG.
Show threadSumocat 🐈‍⬛Sep 23, 2023
@darthnull @9to5Mac The default is your existing search engine choice. It applies your main search engine to the private one.
Show threadDavid Schuetz ** looking for work **Sep 23, 2023

@Sumocat @9to5Mac Ah! That’s much better. I assumed it was just the iOS default. Which then it would’ve just said “Google,” duh.

Thanks. :) I still explicitly set it, just the same.

Show threadcharlesaSep 23, 2023
@darthnull @9to5Mac But “default” here means “the same as your non-private search setting”