So I accidentally pressed the happy little sun icon on my phone’s notification pane and got launched into Yahoo’s weather information web page.<\/p>\n
Nothing new there – I can be a bit of a klutz at times. And I’ve done it so often that my muscle memory can close the page before it even loads.<\/p>\n
…..buuuuut…..<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
After that accidental press, all my searching started being routed via Yahoo. Odd, I thought. I wonder if I’ve been pressing on a floating pane instead of the “official” iOS search field.<\/p>\n
Nope.<\/p>\n
Yahoo had changed my iPhone’s default search engine to Yahoo!<\/p>\n
Without requesting permission and without iOS warning me.<\/p>\n
So now I understand why Yahoo are still the official Weather & Stocks app provider for iOS.<\/p>\n
Not cool, Yahoo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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