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But yeah, I get the same results as Google did, although the iPhone scored a bit lower on my device for some reason (this is the average score across 5 tests on each device with a short cool down between runs).
Source: About those “Chrome on Android is faster than Safari on the iPhone” claims
Look, I was also shocked when Google posted this. But I used to work in Chrome, and those were honest people to a fault. Most of them genuinely cared about what was good for the web, not just what was good for Google, even if the executives deserved a lot less faith than the engineers did.
I was also genuinely shocked they released the chart without naming the phones - that turned something that was meant to be celebrated into something that caused unnecessary drama undercutting the genuine improvements that seem to have been done under the hood.
I can also confirm that those seem tangible in day to day use. I am weird that I use the web version of most of the apps on my mobile phone. It’s less ads (ability to control those ads) and more privacy, not to mention, they are also usually lighter.
So no, this did not read to me like cooked numbers. It read like a result people did not expect, then verified because they knew nobody would believe it on the first pass.
To be clear, it’s dumb to play Android versus iPhone tribalism in 2026. It is that the web still matters, browser performance still matters, and real engineering work can still move the needle in visible ways. That is easy to forget when most of the conversation is trapped inside platform politics and executive nonsense.