AMP sites are missing in Safari for iOS 15 due to Google bug

Accelerated Cell Pages launched 5 years in the past as Google’s plan to hurry up the online on smartphones and tablets. It has large adoption, however a bug in Google Search at this time sees Safari customers in iOS 15 not being served the AMP model of websites.

As an alternative of seeing a modified and infrequently simplified internet web page optimized for quick loading instances (by way of MacStories), you simply get the total model. Customers don’t see google.com within the tackle subject, or the grey bar that notes the positioning’s area title to share the total URL. Within the case of our web site, the distinction is beneath:

AMP:

google.com/amp/s/9to5google.com/2021/10/06/new-google-assistant-design/amp/

Full web site:

9to5google.com/2021/10/06/new-google-assistant-design/

Based on an organization spokesperson at 10 a.m. PT, this is a “bug particular to iOS 15.” As such, utilizing Chrome for iOS or any browser, like Safari on iOS 14, nonetheless serves you the AMP model. Google is engaged on a repair and “anticipate[s] will probably be resolved quickly.” That mentioned, the Google AMP bug remains to be current for iOS 15 and iPad OS Safari customers three hours later.

Google AMP Safari iOS 15 — Safari iOS 15

Some on iOS have loved this bug, with third-party builders lately creating extensions to do away with AMP hyperlinks and routinely redirect customers to the total web site.

For its half, Google is not requiring pages that seem in Search’s “Prime Tales” carousel to make use of AMP so long as its sufficiently quick by itself. That is a part of Google factoring “web page expertise” and pace when rating web sites in Search.