If you want to make Chrome the default browser on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, give Open in Chrome a try. Open in Chrome can easily be turned on and off from the Settings app, which is always a nice addition, no matter what the nature of tweak is. In short, you’ll never see Safari again, unless of course you choose to launch the app and browse the web directly from there. So will links opened using Siri or Spotlight Search. Additionally, your bookmarks added to the Home screen will also open in Chrome. Once you have downloaded and installed the app, launch the stock Settings app on your. After installing the tweak from Cydia, any link you open in an SMS, email, or application will open directly in Chrome. The first thing that you have to do is download Google Chrome from the App Store on your iPhone or iPad. Developed by Andrew Richardson, and recently updated for iOS 7, the tweak does exactly what its name suggest: it opens links in Chrome. As it turns out, there are several similar options in Cydia. For a couple of years now, jailbreakers have been able to change the default browser to anything they want, thanks to handy tweaks such as BrowserChooser. The concept of changing the default browser on iOS is nothing new. Scroll down until you find the Chrome app (apps will be listed in alphabetical order, so Chrome should be towards the top of the list).
#HOW TO MAKE GOOGLE CHROME DEFAULT BROWSER ON SAFARI HOW TO#
Here’s how to do it: Open the Settings app (search for it if you can’t find it). What if you want Chrome to be the default browser on iOS? Your iOS phone or tablet will come with Safari as the default browser, but changing it to Chrome is simple. It means that if you open links sent to you via email or text message, the links will automatically open in Safari. While users can now use various web browsers on iOS, Safari still is the default one. It took several years for Apple to allow third party web browsers in the App Store, and when it finally did, many users rushed to download Chrome, Google’s own browser based on Apple’s WebKit, and basically a sophisticated wrapper for mobile Safari.