Perplexity Pushes Comet Browser Update for iPhone and iPad With Favicon and Zoom Fixes
Perplexity has released version 26.25.0 of its Comet browser for iPhone and iPad, delivering a set of quality-of-life refinements across bookmarks, tab management, theming, and sign-in reliability.
The update does not introduce new AI features but targets everyday friction points that affect how the browser feels in routine use.
Bookmark Favicons Lead the Changes
The most visible addition is support for bookmark favicons — the small site-specific icons websites publish to identify themselves in browser tabs and toolbars.
Previously, Comet displayed a generic placeholder icon for every saved page. Now it pulls each site’s favicon and shows it alongside the bookmark, making it faster to scan a long bookmark list without reading each title in full.
Password manager integration also benefits from the same logic. Saved login entries now show their associated website icons immediately, giving the autofill panel — the dropdown that suggests stored credentials when a login form appears — a cleaner, more recognizable look.
iPad Gets Text Zoom Control
iPad users gain a text zoom option, letting them increase or decrease the size of webpage text independently of the browser’s overall display scale.
The feature targets a common frustration: articles or sites that use small fonts, which previously required pinching to zoom and often broke page layouts in the process.
Smoother Transitions, Fewer Sign-Out Errors
Perplexity says tab switching and theme changes now animate with calmer transitions throughout the app.
The update also addresses sign-in reliability. Some users had encountered unexpected sign-outs and sync warnings; the release aims to reduce both.
Under-the-Hood Fixes
Beyond the visible changes, Perplexity says it tightened scrolling performance, the address bar, ad blocking, and bookmark handling.
None of those fixes carry a headline on their own, but in aggregate they target the kind of small inconsistencies that accumulate into a sluggish or unreliable experience.
Desktop Version Remains Static
Comet on the desktop has not received a comparable update, and Perplexity has not announced any near-term changes for that platform.
The pattern mirrors a similar situation at OpenAI, where its Atlas browser project has also seen limited public development activity since its initial announcement.
Perplexity launched Comet earlier in 2025 as a browser built around its AI-powered answer engine, positioning it to compete in a market where Google Chrome holds a commanding share — StatCounter data puts Chrome at roughly 65 percent of global browser usage as of mid-2025.
