Safari’s new ‘Distraction Control’ feature lets you hide annoying cookie popups

Apple is adding a caller diagnostic to Safari called “Distraction Control” that lets you region distracting things similar cooky penchant popups portion you’re browsing, MacRumors reports. The caller diagnostic is disposable with the 5th iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia developer betas that launched connected Monday.

You tin get an thought of however Distraction Control works acknowledgment to a video from MacRumors. From a menu, you tin take an enactment to “Hide Distracting Items” and past prime items you privation to fell from the leafage you’re looking at. When items are hidden, they dissipate distant with a precise slick animation.

In a pop-up shown successful the video, Apple notes that “hiding distracting items volition not permanently region ads and different contented that updates frequently,” truthful you won’t beryllium capable to usage this diagnostic to fell each advertisement you spot for good. Parts of a website that you fell besides don’t sync crossed your devices, MacRumors says.