Yahoo seems to have grabbed my iPhone Search bar. How do I get it back to Google?

Settings—> Safari—> Search Engine

Thank you, John.

Now I’m trying to figure out how this happened. I thought that the Mac and iPhone OS were protected from malware which hijacks browsers.

I know it happened after several websites I visited but am not entirely sure which one it was.

It definitely was not due to my changing any settings. I didn’t even realize that Yahoo was an option in settings. I always assumed it was Google only since that’s what it’s always been.

I’m really dismayed that it’s apparently possible for some weirdo website to hijack the iPhone browser.

Now I’m wondering what other unknown vulnerabilities there are.

Did you just upgrade to iOS 4? They just added a option for Bing as search. Maybe something got wonky in the upgrade.

No. Actually I haven’t upgraded for quite a while since somewhere in the twos.

It’s caution about wonky stuff that partially kept me from upgrading.

When you visit Yahoo.com from your iPhone it usually asks you if you want to make Yahoo your default search engine. You might have clicked “OK” by accident.