Return from address bar

You're posting to the iOS forum, and your question mentions macOS, so I'm not sure which one you're referring to, but if it's macOS, then pressing the Escape key twice will move the input focus back to the web element it was on before you pressed Command+L, which by default also moves the VoiceOver cursor. VO+J also used to work, but has been in varying broken states since macOS Sequoia 15.0.

You can simply press the ESC key to focus on the web page, but that puts you on the keyboard focus. If you have a link or a control that your keyboard focus was left off on, that’s where you’d land. However, VoiceOver can’t keep track of where the VoiceOver cursor was on a webpage when you switch tabs or move to the address bar and try to focus back on the webpage. This problem arises when there’s a really long text that’s contained in many paragraphs, and the keyboard focus is nowhere near the VoiceOver cursor. In such cases, you’ll have to put in some effort to find where you were left off unless you create a hotspot on the text.

I press the escape key only once and that puts me back on the keyboard focused item back, interesting.

I’ve noticed that if I type something, I need to press the escape key twice. However, if I don’t type anything, I only need to press it once.

Why did no one tell me about this sooner! Pressing esc twice seems to work great. I have been so annoyed by the lack of this ever since I started using VoiceOver. Has it done this all along?

Anyway thank you so much for this trick - I hope it works as well as my little play with it suggests.

If text is typed in the address bar and auto-completion results are showing, pressing escape once hides those results. Pressing escape again then returns the focus to the webpage.