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!

 

[Raz0rEdge]

If you have a recent enough version of iOS, go to Settings-Apps->Default Apps. Scroll down to the Browser App selection and choose the one you want.

 

[RadDave]

@ Samos - Safari is a builtin app and cannot be removed but as suggested above, you can use another browser, and also remove Safari from the home screen and disable some of its features - more discussion HERE that may help; also a search will bring up many more hits. Good luck - Dave

 

[Jimmysb]

Being relatively new to the Mac I use to use Firefox, but after trying multiple browsers, most were very heavy on memory use, Safari was one of the least hungry, but I now use Brave!

 

[MacBiter]

If I'm content to only have one window open and no tabs, then Google can be a useful browser (Google, not Chrome).

 

[IWT]

If you have a recent enough version of iOS, go to Settings-Apps->Default Apps. Scroll down to the Browser App selection and choose the one you want.

We learn something new every day. Although I've used the "Apps" function many times, I confess I was unaware of or ignored the "Default Apps" setting. Thanks for that.

Ian

 

[Rod]

With earlier iOS you used to choose the default Browser in Safari Settings and the same with Mail. Now you can do it from the Default Apps screen in Settings, a big improvement.