iOS Tips

Tip #623

January 6, 2025

New year, new… home? That’s right! Vivaldi Tips with all its posts is moving from tips.vivaldi.net to vivaldi.com/blog/tips/. The move allows us to translate tips into more languages, starting with Japanese.

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Tip #622

December 20, 2024

When you’ve enabled automatic theme switches from light to dark and back or do it often manually on your iPhone or iPad, you can have Vivaldi change themes accordingly as well.

To follow the system’s theme:

1. Go to Settings > Appearance and Theme > Browser Theme.
2. Select “System”.

Tip #614

December 10, 2024

On Android, you can view and manage your downloads from the Downloads Panel. On iOS, things are a bit different. There you’ll find your downloads only in the operating system’s file folder.

To view your downloaded files on iOS:

• In Vivaldi, open the Vivaldi menu and select Downloads to be taken directly to the folder.
• From your iPhone/iPad’s home screen, go to Files > Browse > On my iPhone/iPad > Vivaldi.

Tip #605

November 27, 2024

To share a link from your iPhone or iPad, you can tap on the Address Field to copy the link and paste it in some other app, but why do that when there’s a more convenient option.

To share a link of the active tab:

1. Open the Vivaldi menu.
2. Tap on “Share Page”.
3. Choose the app you want to share the link with or one of the other sharing options available on iOS.

Tip #598

November 18, 2024

When you’ve come across some useful websites during one of your browsing sprees, as long as you have all the web pages open in separate tabs, you can bookmark them all at once.

To bookmark multiple web pages on Android:

1. Open the Tab Switcher.
2. Open the  menu at the top of the screen and tap on “Select tabs”.
3. Tap on the tabs you want to bookmark.
4. Tap on the  menu again.
5. Select “Bookmark tabs”.

The bookmarks will be saved as a sub folder with the saved date in the title.

To bookmark multiple pages on iOS:

1. Open the Tab Switcher.
2. Tap on “Edit” in the bottom left corner and tap on “Select tabs”.
3. Tap on the tabs you want to bookmark.
4. Tap on “Add to…” in the bottom right corner.
5. Select “Add to bookmarks”.
6. Select the destination folder for the new bookmarks.
7. Tap “Done” in the top right corner.

Find out how to do it on desktop from Tip #242.

Tip #596

November 14, 2024

If your friend has still not made the switch to Vivaldi on their iPhone or iPad, you can help your buddy out by sharing the App Store link with him, so all they’ll have to do is open the link and tap Install. To make sharing easier for you, we’ve added a quick share option in the main Vivaldi menu.

To share Vivaldi:

1. Open the Vivaldi menu and scroll to the bottom.
2. Tap on “Share Vivaldi”.
3. Select how you want to share the App Store link.
4. Follow the app’s guidelines.

It’s a win-win situation. Your friend will be forever indebted to you for recommending the best browser out there and you’ll be helping us, so we can continue doing even more cool stuff at Vivaldi.

Tip #591

November 7, 2024

Pop Out Video, aka Picture-in-Picture, is a popular feature on desktop, but did you know it’s also available on mobile? The main difference is that, on your mobile device, you can’t browse other tabs in Vivaldi while Pop Out Video is enabled, but you can use most other apps.

To enable pop-out video on iOS:

1. While browsing with Vivaldi, find a video you want to watch.
2. Press play and enable full-screen view of the video.
3. Go to your phone’s home screen.

The video will continue playing in a small rectangle on your home screen. You can move the video by dragging it around and use the two-finger zoom gesture to change the size of the video. Tap on the rectangle to see video controls.

Tip #586

October 31, 2024

In addition to Speed Dials, you can have an automatically generated group of your most visited web pages on the Start Page.

To enable Top Sites:

Option 1

1. Open a new tab with the Start Page.
2. At the bottom of the page or from the 3-dot menu in the top right corner of the Start Page, open “Customize Start Page” settings.
3. Toggle on “Display Top Sites”.

Option 2

1. Go to  Vivaldi Menu > Settings > Start Page.
2. Toggle on “Display Top Sites”.

Tip #576

October 16, 2024

When Vivaldi is your default browser on iOS, you can create web page shortcuts for the Home Screen. That way you can access your most viewed websites even faster.

To create a Home Screen shortcut:

1. Open the web page you want to add to the Home Screen.
2. Go to the Vivaldi menu > Share.
3. Select “Add to Home Screen”.
4. If needed update the shortcut name.
5. Tap on “Add”.

Tip #573

October 10, 2024

Bookmarks, Tabs, Passwords, Notes, History, etc. – you can easily access all of it and more in Vivaldi on all your devices when you use the Sync feature. But, whether you sync all data or just some of it, is up to you.

To sync selected data:

1. Go to Settings > Sync.
2. Log in to your account and enter the encryption password.
3. Go to “Sync Selected Data”
4. Toggle on and off the data types you want to Sync.
5. Click “Apply Changes”.
6. Do the same on all devices.

Tip #570

October 7, 2024

Did you come across an interesting article you’d like to save for later, but it’s not open in Vivaldi? There’s an easy way you can add it to Vivaldi’s Reading List without needing to open the link in Vivaldi first.

To add a link to the Reading List:

1. Locate the share feature in the app.
2. Find Vivaldi from the suggested apps list and tap on it.
3. Select “Add to Reading List”

In some cases, the suggestion list includes two separate Vivaldi entries, one for opening the link in the browser and the other for adding to the Reading List.

Tip #567

October 2, 2024

You might be wondering about a feature in Vivaldi on your Apple device, trying to figure out how to configure the app to your liking, or, in the unfortunate event, trying to troubleshoot an issue. Vivaldi Help, with its growing selection of articles, is here to help.

To quickly open Vivaldi Help, use one of the following methods:

• Open the main  Vivaldi menu, scroll to the end, and select Help.
• Open the bookmarked link from the Bookmarks Panel.
• Type “help.vivaldi.com/ios” in the Address Field.

Check out Tip #2 to see how to best get to Vivaldi Help on desktop and Tip #297 for Android.