Disable Safari on iPhone

[samos]

Hi all. I have been trying to minimise my iPhone use by sticking to important apps. I like to make the interface more readable and use the phone only for essential purposes. I've therefore zoomed into the display and increased the font size.
A key issue is to get rid of Safari and use a basic browser like Firefox Focus that only allows for opening one window at a time.
Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to permanently disable Safari (and not uninstall).
Can you suggest some way out?
Thanks!

 

[TonyAguila]

Hi all. I have been trying to minimise my iPhone use by sticking to important apps. I like to make the interface more readable and use the phone only for essential purposes. I've therefore zoomed into the display and increased the font size.
A key issue is to get rid of Safari and use a basic browser like Firefox Focus that only allows for opening one window at a time.
Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to permanently disable Safari (and not uninstall).
Can you suggest some way out?
Thanks!

I would advise against “disabling” Safari. Instead, choose your app of choice as your default browser. Go to Settings > Apps > Default Apps and choose the browser you want as your default browser (assuming it is already installed).

 

[samos]

Thanks. I looked around and went into screen time-->content and privacy restrictions-->Allowed apps & Features.
There I switched off Safari. Now it doesn't show up in the list of apps.
It is still installed and on the phone. Hopefully, this won't create any issues with iOS needing to use Safari in the background.