iOS Tips

Tip #648

February 10, 2025

Skipping one tiny step might not feel like much, but over time the seconds you’ve saved add up, so use the Paste and Go shortcut liberally.

To use Paste and Go:

1. Copy a web page link or a piece of text to your clipboard.
2. In the active or new tab, focus the Address Field either with a single tap or a long press.
3. From the menu, select “Paste and Go” if you’ve copied a link and “Paste and Search” when you’ve copied some text.

Tip #645

February 5, 2025

When you have Sync enabled in Vivaldi, you can view all tabs you have open in other Vivaldi instances from a button on the Tab Bar and in the Windows Panel on desktop, and from the Tab Switcher on mobile. If there’s a specific web page you’d like to access from a different device immediately, you can use the Send Tab to Device feature.

To send a tab from desktop:

1. Right-click on the tab on the Tab Bar or on an empty area on the page.
2. Select “Send to Your Devices”.
3. Choose to which synced device you want to send the tab to.

To open a received tab on desktop:

1. Click on the Synced Tabs button on the far side of the Tab Bar.
2. Click on “From [device name]: [page link]”.

To send a tab from mobile:

1. Open the Vivaldi menu > Share.
2. Select “Send to Your Devices”.
3. Choose to which synced device you want to send the tab to.

To open a received tab on mobile:

1. After sending the tab from the other device, wait for a notification.
2. Tap on the notification to open the page in a new tab.

If you don’t receive sent tabs, check that you’re logged in to Sync and that syncing is active. Also, check from your phone’s settings that Vivaldi is allowed to send you notifications.

Tip #641

January 30, 2025

Vivaldi Translate on your iPhone and iPad helps to break down language barriers and open up the web like never before.

To translate the whole web page, either:

• Tap on the Translate button on the Address Bar (visible when the web page is in a different language from your preferences).
• Go to the Vivaldi menu > Translate.

To translate a snippet of text:

1. Highlight the text on the web page.
2. Select “Vivaldi Translate” from the context menu.

Tip #637

January 24, 2025

When you want to revisit a page, but you already closed the tab, an easy way to reopen it is through the History Panel. It’s especially useful, when you’re not 100% sure what the web page’s link or title was. Just browse through the list of history entries on the day you last remember going to the site.

To open the History Panel:

Option 1

1. Open the Panels from the bottom left corner of the screen.
2. Swipe to the History Panel.

Option 2

1. Open the main menu.
2. Scroll down and tap on History.

Tip #629

January 14, 2025

On desktop, Ctrl+F / ⌘ F is a well known Keyboard Shortcut for searching through the open web page. On mobile devices, where the screens fit even less content in the visible area, being able to just search for a keyword is even more useful.

To search in Vivaldi on iOS:

1. Open the  Vivaldi menu.
2. Select “Find in Page”.
3. Enter your search keyword.

Search results will start showing as you type. Use the arrows next to the search input field to move to the ˅ next and ˄ previous results. Tap on “Done”, when you’re finished with your search.

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.

You might need to update your subscription depending on how you’re following Vivaldi Tips.

If you’ve added the Tips widget to the Dashboard in the desktop version of Vivaldi or you check in on the Community homepage on vivaldi.net daily, you don’t need to do anything.

Feeds – If you read the posts via a feed reader, update the RSS link to https://vivaldi.com/category/tips/feed/.

Vivaldi Social – If you follow tips from the Fediverse, start following https://social.vivaldi.net/@[email protected] instead of https://social.vivaldi.net/@[email protected].

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.