# 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 Features - Added support for automatically scrolling off-screen `` 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 `` elements targeted by `aria-labelledby` stopped providing accessibility text to assistive 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) #### 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 `` 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 `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) - Fixed an issue where `scrollRectToVisible()` did not scroll pages to bring fixed anchor-positioned boxes into view when navigating with the keyboard. (163764088) - Fixed an issue where anchor-positioned elements transitioning from `display: block` to `display: none` can not anchor themselves to the anchor. (163861918) - 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 `` 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 `` element with long `` 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 `` 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 `