I have Duckduckgo set as my search engine for standard and private browsing in Safari. It works fine in standard, but private browsing will only use Google.
I’ve cleared Safari history and cookies, restarted device, and tried turning these options off and on, but the issue persists.
Is there another setting I’m missing?
Identical question and solution here:
Why does Safari only use Google in private mode instead of DuckDuckGo? - Apple Community
Excerpt:
atomicelroy wrote:
I fixed it by turning Also Use In Private Search to off, then manually selecting Duck Duck Go. Thank you.
Seems like a bug to me, but that workaround appeared to fix it.
iOS 18.5 or iPadOS 18.5?
Tried turning off all extensions, and tested again?
Thanks for replying.
iOS 18.4.1 when posted; 18.5 now. Same behavior.
(Automatic updates are enabled, but I didn’t get a notification, nor did it update automatically.)
No Safari extensions.
Lo and behold. Thanks for that!
Safari defaults to Google search in private browsing
