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⚠️ I was sherlocked! 🥳🍾 iOS 18 included a "Hide Distracting Items" feature! ⚠️ I'm tired of annoying things covering what I want to read in Safari. I've had a version of this in Firefox forever and I really missed it in my iPad. The idea is really simple: Run the shortcut and, from that moment, you can make disappear almost anything. The first tap marks an element to be deleted A second tap in a marked element deletes it Remove the mark with a two-finger tap or marking another element A two-finger tap when nothing is marked disables the script The script does not work with the contents of an iframe It's been said that a picture is worth a thousand words... How about a video then? ​ P.S. I love the Run JavaScript on Web Page action :-) P.P.S. Thanks to Rafael Roa for the (much improved) name of the shortcut :-D Related If you use Firefox you may be interested in the userscript that inspired this shortcut: Click to delete (it requires the Greasemonkey extension) Consider the JavaScript in the shortcut and the original script under the MIT license. TO DO ̶M̶a̶k̶e̶ ̶a̶n̶ ̶i̶O̶S̶ ̶1̶2̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶a̶t̶i̶b̶l̶e̶ ̶v̶e̶r̶s̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶S̶c̶P̶L̶ ̶A̶d̶d̶ ̶e̶x̶p̶l̶a̶n̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶h̶o̶r̶t̶c̶u̶t̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶r̶u̶n̶ ̶d̶i̶r̶e̶c̶t̶l̶y̶ (feedback by @minecraftpublisher ) Add option to omit the instructions dialog Make it work with iframes Explore alternate gestures to two-finger tapping (both for unmarking and for disabling the script) Consider remembering per-site deleted elements (maybe via localStorage?)