If you are using an iPad 2 as a dedicated recipe book or an iPhone 4s as a music player with occasional web browsing needs, Chrome is a worthy download—just remember that for anything sensitive, it’s time to upgrade your hardware.
Google dropped support for iOS 9 and 10 in Chrome 80 (February 2020). The official reason was that maintaining compatibility with older WebKit forks became unsustainable. However, the deeper reason is that Apple’s requirement that all browsers use the system WebKit meant that older iOS versions simply could not run a newer WebKit. Without a newer WebKit, Chrome cannot support newer web standards, and without those standards, the browser becomes irrelevant for modern sites. Google faced a choice: invest significant engineering effort into backporting features to a dying platform (iOS 9, with <1% of active devices by 2020) or focus on iOS 12+ where the majority of users lived. They chose the latter. chrome for ios 9.3.5
If you are determined to keep your iOS 9 device online, here are three tips to make Chrome usable: If you are using an iPad 2 as
Consequently, the “Chrome” user on iOS 9.3.5 receives Google’s user interface, bookmark sync, and tab management, but not Google’s rendering or JavaScript speed. Pages render with the same underlying engine as Safari on that same iOS version—meaning slow, often broken layouts for modern websites that rely on ES6+ features or newer security protocols. However, the deeper reason is that Apple’s requirement
Using Chrome on iOS 9.3.5 to log into banking, email, or social media exposes the user to man-in-the-middle attacks, cross-site scripting exploits, and potentially device compromise via malicious ads. Security experts universally recommend against using any browser on an unsupported iOS version.
: You cannot download it directly from the App Store if you haven't "purchased" it before on your Apple ID. You often have to download it on a newer device first, then go to your "Purchased" history on the old device to find a "compatible version" .
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