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Chrome worked wonderfully on my iPhone 5, up until the point where I installed IOS8. It was unusable after that, so I had no choice but to switch back to safari.

Did they remove some low level API's in 8 that were available in prior versions?

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No. There never were any low level API's. You're always using the webkit component; albeit one that's slightly slower than native safari.

Has Chrome not yet switched to using WKWebView? I know there was some talk about missing features.

The features are still missing as of iOS 9 SDK.

Ironically, it is with iOS 8 that other browsers got access to Nitro JS engine that Safari used so that they could potentially be on par with Safari.

If they're willing to be broken in other ways.

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