Ask HN: Has your iPhone Safari been hijacked by ChatGPT?
1•dalemhurley•1h ago
Every time I search Google I am immediately redirected to ChatGPT. Have they installed some malware?
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al_borland•1h ago
Check your Safari settings and turn the ChatGPT extension off.
dalemhurley•1h ago
Strange, I didn’t install an extension or enable it.
It happens even when I go to Google.com. Every search get hijacked.
This is wrong.
soraminazuki•8m ago
All Safari extensions are bundled with apps and require users to manually enable them to function.
I tried installing the ChatGPT app, and noticed that there’s a "ChatGPT Search" extension that provides the functionality you’re looking for. However, enabling it involves a couple of steps: You can either go to Settings > Apps > Safari > Extensions > ChatGPT Search > Allow Extension, or you can tap the left side of the Safari address bar, select Manage Extensions, and enable ChatGPT Search. Hilariously, the extension didn't work when I had DuckDuckGo as my default search engine so I had to change it to Google when I was testing this.
Additionally, to allow the extension to redirect the page from Google, you must navigate to google.com, tap the left side of the Safari address bar, select ChatGPT Search, and grant it permission to access the page content.
Search hijacking just can't happen on Safari without the user going through multiple hoops.
al_borland•1h ago
dalemhurley•1h ago
It happens even when I go to Google.com. Every search get hijacked.
This is wrong.
soraminazuki•8m ago
I tried installing the ChatGPT app, and noticed that there’s a "ChatGPT Search" extension that provides the functionality you’re looking for. However, enabling it involves a couple of steps: You can either go to Settings > Apps > Safari > Extensions > ChatGPT Search > Allow Extension, or you can tap the left side of the Safari address bar, select Manage Extensions, and enable ChatGPT Search. Hilariously, the extension didn't work when I had DuckDuckGo as my default search engine so I had to change it to Google when I was testing this.
Additionally, to allow the extension to redirect the page from Google, you must navigate to google.com, tap the left side of the Safari address bar, select ChatGPT Search, and grant it permission to access the page content.
Search hijacking just can't happen on Safari without the user going through multiple hoops.