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Old 06-02-2015, 11:01
Aetnla
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I have just got an iPad but have found a really annoying problem with Google website. There's no arrow button for editing the autocomplete suggestions that appear when typing the search query. How am I meant to edit or add to what's suggested before searching?
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Old 20-02-2015, 01:27
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It seems I am the only one on the entire planet who sees this as a major problem.

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Phone: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...2010.51.35.png
iPad: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...2011.05.25.jpg

The tablet version of the Google website has been poorly designed. It seems it hasn't been properly designed with touchscreen in mind and assumes all tablet keyboards have up/down arrow keys when the iPad clearly doesn't.

I have found a workaround by following the guide at http://www.technipages.com/ios-chang...gent-in-safari and using an iPhone user agent string. The problem is this has a side effect of other sites also displaying phone versions of sites instead of tablet versions and only works for Safari. Does anyone know a better workaround?

It's ridiculous that the arrow buttons that enable appending to suggestions are missing on the iPad. Using Google without those buttons is too much of a pain for me.
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