I know there were AMP links to redirect when I was testing Amplosion and Overamped on the iOS 15 betas and shortly after its launch, but sometime in the past two weeks or so, they have completely vanished from Google search results in Safari for iOS and iPadOS 15. I know from my own testing that Google search results still included AMP links for the first week after iOS 15 was released on September 20. I can say that it’s a very recent change. So, is it possible that Google has given up on AMP in Safari on iOS 15 because of the popularity of AMP blocking extensions? Who can say, but it’s certainly an interesting coincidence. Meanwhile, Johnson has a theory that seems plausible to me: I haven’t heard back yet but will update this story if I do. I wondered what might be going on, so I contacted Google PR to see if they could explain it. Safari for iOS and iPadOS 15 stands alone among these four browsers and is the only one that doesn’t return AMP links in Google search results. I ran the same test using Google Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft’s Edge browser on iOS 15, and all returned Google search results with AMP links.
Sure enough, on iOS 14, I get AMP results, but not on iOS 15, where the links point to. I searched Google for an article published today on The Verge. I’ve done some digging myself, as has Federico, and we have been able to reproduce the same results. Google search results still return AMP URLs on iOS 14.
