Comment by AceJohnny2

13 hours ago

Maybe you have an ISP that captures DNS checks to return ad sites, and Safari interprets that as a real website?

But honestly it seems extremely weird that Safari would interpret something with spaces as a URL instead of a search

You’re getting downvoted for some reason, but I’ve never experienced this bug, once, ever, in about 15 years of daily iPhone usage.

There surely must be some edge case/condition to discover (which is what you were trying to suggest)?