by clemens (23.09.2021)

beforeunload Deactivated on iOS

tl;dr

On Safari in iOS the event beforeunload does not exist, but it does on Safari for MacOS. Add a global event listener on all clicks on anchor tags as a workaround.

document.addEventListener("click", e => {
    if (e.target.tagName == "A") {
        if (!confirm("Do you want to exit?")) {
            e.preventDefault();
        }
    }
});