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Where is safari menu bar ???
Where is Safari menu bar ???
iPad 2, iOS 4.3.2
Posted on Apr 26, 2011 10:12 AM
Posted on Apr 26, 2011 10:20 AM
You don't get a menu bar as such, just :
- back and forward arrows
- an icon indicating how many pages/tabs you have open
- bookmarks icon
- an icon that allows you to add bookmark, add to homescreen, mail link, print
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Apr 26, 2011 10:20 AM in response to Dadralph
Apr 26, 2011 11:43 AM in response to King_Penguin
The safari menu bar is at the very top of your screen, up by the apple logo.
Safari>Preferences>General.
The home page preferences are midway down and you can manually enter the address you prefer, or if you are actively viewing the page you can click the "Set to current page" button.
Apr 26, 2011 10:19 AM in response to Dadralph
At the top is the search box and url box, but no menu bar exists.
There are a few buttons for specific functions.
What are you trying to do?
Apr 26, 2011 11:31 AM in response to red555
Hi Red, Comcast is my regular home page. They have instruction by going to Safari menu bar to make Comcast my home page. Maybe there is another way. Ralph
Apr 26, 2011 11:36 AM in response to Dadralph
You can not set a homepage with the Safari browser. You can download other browsers that let you set a homepage such as the Mercury browser. Look in the app store for alternative browsers that fit your needs.
Apr 26, 2011 11:40 AM in response to Dadralph
In order to achieve something close to what you want to do with Safari, go to the Comcast homepage, tap on the curved arrow icon at the top of Safari - next to the address area - select Add to Home Screen. This will put a link on your home screen that you can tap on and it will open to the Comcast homepage.
Apr 26, 2011 12:06 PM in response to ebinellis
That's the case for the Mac, but not for the iPad. There is no menu bar and no way to set a homepage on the Safari on the iPad.
Apr 26, 2011 12:10 PM in response to PogoPossum
I completely missed the fact that this was posted in the iPad forum, I'm sorry.
You are absolutely correct my steps are for the Mac OS, and the iOS does not allow for a home page to be set.
Apr 26, 2011 1:04 PM in response to Demo
Dadralph, this is the best way.......
Give Demo a "Correct Answer" !!!
Demo wrote: In order to achieve something close to what you want to do with Safari, go to the Comcast homepage, tap on the curved arrow icon at the top of Safari - next to the address area - select Add to Home Screen. This will put a link on your home screen that you can tap on and it will open to the Comcast homepage.
Apr 26, 2011 1:20 PM in response to red555
red555 wrote: Dadralph, this is the best way....... Give Demo a "Correct Answer" !!!
I have no money or gifts to offer to you for your kindness and I am not worthy .....
Apr 26, 2011 1:39 PM in response to Demo
Demo wrote: .... I am not worthy .....
Oooops. I forgot you were a Steeler's fan.
Apr 26, 2011 2:20 PM in response to red555
red555 wrote: Demo wrote: .... I am not worthy .....
Here we go Steelers.. here we go! (if we can settle the lockout) ... and going from my terrible memory based on what I remember from the old profile I'm guessing Dolphins or Bucs????
Apr 26, 2011 2:52 PM in response to Demo
I prefer college to pro football. I'm a Florida State fan. I root for the Jaguars for pro, though.
Safari User Guide
- Change your homepage
- Import bookmarks, history, and passwords
- Make Safari your default web browser
- Go to websites
- Find what you’re looking for
- Bookmark webpages that you want to revisit
- See your favorite websites
- Use tabs for webpages
- Pin frequently visited websites
- Play web videos
- Mute audio in tabs
- Pay with Apple Pay
- Autofill credit card info
- Autofill contact info
- Keep a Reading List
- Hide ads when reading articles
- Translate a webpage
- Download items from the web
- Share or post webpages
- Add passes to Wallet
- Save part or all of a webpage
- Print or create a PDF of a webpage
- Customize a start page
- Customize the Safari window
- Customize settings per website
- Zoom in on webpages
- Get extensions
- Manage cookies and website data
- Block pop-ups
- Clear your browsing history
- Browse privately
- Autofill user name and password info
- Prevent cross-site tracking
- View a Privacy Report
- Change Safari preferences
- Keyboard and other shortcuts
- Troubleshooting
Customize the Safari browser window on Mac
You can change the layout of Safari bars, buttons, and bookmarks to suit your browsing style.
Open Safari for me
Use the Favorites bar
Show the status bar, customize the toolbar.
Change the items in the toolbar: Choose View > Customize Toolbar, then add, remove, and rearrange toolbar items by dragging them. For example, you can add an iCloud Tabs button that shows a list of webpages open on your other devices that have Safari turned on in iCloud preferences .
Quickly rearrange toolbar buttons: Press and hold the Command key, then drag buttons right or left. This shortcut doesn’t work for the Back/Forward, Sidebar, Home, History, or Downloads buttons, or the Smart Search field .
Remove a toolbar item: Press and hold the Command key, then drag the item out of the toolbar.
Show or hide the toolbar in full-screen view: While in full-screen view, choose View > Always Show Toolbar in Full Screen.
Customize the tab bar
Choose where to put tabs.
Compact: Tabs move up to the toolbar. The active tab is the Smart Search field .
Separate: Tabs remain in the tab bar, under the toolbar.
See Change Tabs preferences in Safari .
To customize Safari even more, choose Safari > Preferences, then change options.
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How to use Safari on a Mac
Safari is the web browser app bundled with all Macs as part of macOS. You don’t have to use it – if you prefer to use Chrome or Firefox, for example, you can install those apps for your web surfing needs. But in our experience, Safari is a good option – and as you can see from our round-up of best web browser apps for the Mac , it’s pretty much the best you can get.
If you are new to Safari this article will help you find your way around the app. And if you are a seasoned Safari user we will reveal a few Safari tips and tricks that you might not know, including some of the fab new features in Safari 11, the latest version of Safari for Mac.
If you’d like to read about using Safari on the iPad or iPhone, read this .
How to get the latest version of Safari for Mac
First things first. You will want to make sure you have the latest version of Safari. At the time of writing the most up-to-date version is Safari 11.1.
Here’s how to find out which version of Safari you are running:
- Open Safari.
- Click on Safari > About Safari in the menu.
- The resulting window will reveal the version number.
As long as your copy of MacOS – the Mac operating system – is up to date your copy of Safari should be because Safari is bundled as part of an operating system update.
However, you don’t have to be using the latest version of macOS to have the latest version of Safari. Apple is bundling Safari 11 with High Sierra, Sierra and El Capitan versions of the Mac OS. If you need to update your version of MacOS read this: how to update your Mac operating system software .
Now that you have the latest version of Safari you can start enjoying some of the new features that we will discuss below.
Safari basics
If you are a surfing novice you might want to familiarise yourself with these tips.
We’ll start off with the basics, such as how to get into Safari, how to search, and other useful pointers. You can skip this bit if you aren’t a Safari beginner, there are plenty of tips below that you might find useful.
You can find Safari in the Dock at the bottom of your Mac’s screen. Its icon looks like a compass.
How to use Safari
The big bar at the top of the Safari window is where you can enter a website URL or a search term to either take you directly to a website, or to a list of pages that match your query.
It will automatically search in Google (but you can change it so it defaults to another search engine).
You rarely have to enter a complete URL for a website. Once you have visited a site once you only need to type a few letters of its name and it will autofill the rest of the URL.
For example, type: ‘Face’ and it will autofill the rest of the URL and when you press enter it will take you straight to Facebook.
How to make it easy to find your favourite sites in Safari
There are lots of ways of making it easy to get to websites you frequently visit.
When you open a new tab (see below for details of how to do that) you will see your Favourites view including Frequently Visited Sites. You could also choose to see a Top Sites view, set a Homepage, just see an empty page, or have the Same Page show up. These are all options you can access in Safari > Preferences > General. Just click on the menu beside New tabs open with.
If you choose the Top Sites view you can adjust it to show 6, 12 or 24 sites. To add and remove Top Sites hover over the preview until you see an x and a pin icon. Pin those sites you wish to keep and click x on those you don’t image you will want to find again. The sites that appear in Top Sites tend to be those you visit most frequently.
You can choose one of these views for every time you open a new Safari window.
How to Pin a site in Safari
In Safari you can also ‘Pin’ favourite sites to the menu bar – a simple way of adding a shortcut to Facebook, YouTube or any site you visit frequently.
When you Pin a site you will see a small icon representing that site on the left of your tabs.
To Pin a particular web page right- or control-click on the tab and choose Pin Tab. Then it’s very easy to go straight to that site.
Using tabs in Safari
Back to tabs. You can open multiple tabs in a Safari window, this means that rather than having a different Safari window open for every website you are on, you can just have one Safari window open and multiple pages accessible through that.
To open a new tab press Command + T.
There are two ways that you can see a preview of the different tabs you have open:
- You can see a short summary of the name of the web page on the tabs themselves. This might be sufficient if you only have one or two tabs open, but once you have more than eight you’ll probably find the summary is too short to be useful.
- Or, you can click on the icon that looks like two boxes on the right of the search/URL box. This will show a thumbnail view of all the web pages you have open.
While we’re on the subject of Tabs, you can close a single tab just by hovering over the tab and clicking on the x that shows up in the corner of that tab.
It’s also possible to close all but one tab. Just hold down the Option/Alt key when you click on the x to get rid of all the other tabs that are open, except for the page on that tab.
How to tell which Safari tabs are playing audio
Not everyone wants to surf the web in silence though. There is lots of very worthy audio and video content available on the web and no doubt many surfers wouldn’t want to miss out on that.
The problem is when you have multiple web pages open and more than one of them is blaring out audio.
Luckily there is another Safari tip to fix that.
You can identify which of your open tabs is playing audio by the speaker symbol that appears in the far right of the Safari tab associated with that web page.
It’s possible to mute the audio with a single click on the speaker symbol without even opening the tab.
And if more than one Safari webpage is playing audio you can choose to mute them all at once. Just click on the speaker symbol in the URL bar and choose Mute all Tabs.
Alternatively, you can Option/Alt-click on the speaker icon of the tab you do wish to listen to and mute the audio on all the other tabs.
How to reopen all windows from the last session
Here’s another useful tip. You can easily reopen all the tabs you had open last time you were using Safari.
Click History > Reopen All Windows from Last Session to quickly recover all the windows you were recently looking at. You might also find this helpful: How to export bookmarks from Chrome to Safari
How to show the full URL in Safari
Another handy Safari tip. In Yosemite Safari stopped showing the whole URL – a feature designed to help avoid users being taken in by phishing scams, wherein the URL is obfuscated. In other words, if you’re visiting https://macworld.co.uk/this/page/that/page then all you’ll see in the address bar is macworld.co.uk.
If this isn’t what you want, perhaps you want to see the full URL of the article you are reading, you can change things so that the whole URL is shown.
Open Safari’s preferences dialog box (Cmd+,) then click the Advanced icon and put a check alongside Show Full Website Address.
How to change how you view websites in Safari
One of our favourite features in Safari 11 is the extra control we have over the web. You can tweak the settings of specific websites so that they suit you for example.
How to change the font size on a website
You can tweak your settings so that when you visit a specific site the images and text are bigger – perfect if you are frustrated to find that the text on a favourite website is a bit too small for your eyes.
Here’s how to enlarge (or reduce) the font size on a particular website so that it stays that size whether you visit:
- Go to Safari > Preferences.
- Click on the Websites tab.
- Click on Page Zoom.
- Find the site you want to customise (any site you have open or have recently visited will be listed here).
- Choose a number bigger or smaller than 100% depending on how large you want the text and images to be.
You can do this on a per website basis, or if you frequently find that the text on websites is too small for you, you can choose to default to the percentage that suits you wherever you go on the web. Note that not all websites are created the same so some will naturally have larger type than others.
To choose the zoom percentage for all websites, click in the drop down box beside “When visiting other websites”.
Another benefit of having access to these controls that allow you to change the way you view the web is that it enables you to stop seeing ads and auto-playing videos. We’ll look at that below.
How to stop ads and auto-playing videos in Safari
Another enticing feature of Safari is the way you can choose to adjust the settings so that you never see another ad or auto-playing video again. We’ll look at how to do that next.
How to stop autoplay audio and video in Safari
Perhaps you are frustrated by auto-playing video blaring out every time you visit a website.
With Safari 11 you can disable autoplay video, so you will never again have to hear voices while you are browsing the web. Here’s what to do:
- Open the offending website.
- Click on Safari > Settings for This Website (or right-click the URL box and select Settings for This Website).
- Allow All Auto-Play
- Stop Media with Sound
- Never Auto-Play
Stop Media with Sounds is the default option, and it will essentially stop any video from starting if the sound is set to be on. If the video is set to play silently it will still run but you won’t hear it, unless you choose to.
If you would rather not let auto-playing video play, you can choose Never Auto-Play.
Remember that if you adjust the settings this way it will only apply to autoplay videos on that website. If you’d like to never see an autoplaying video again follow these steps:
- Go to Safari > Preferences and click on Websites.
And there is an option below to choose the same settings “When visiting other websites”.
We have a complete tutorial that explains how to use this feature here: How to stop autoplay video in Safari & Chrome on Mac .
We also cover how to stop Safari asking to use your location data here .
How to stop seeing ads on websites in Safari
While ads pay a part of our wage, we realise that some ads can really reduce the enjoyment of web browsing. Usually these are ads that have something wrong with the way they have been coded and aren’t behaving as intended, or even worse they are spam ads that have crept onto the ad networks. We are honestly as frustrated as you are!
One of the big changes Apple bought to Safari 11 was the ability to really manage the ads that you see – this was part of Apple’s effort to make the web work better. Effectively, if Apple can remove ads that aren’t behaving as intended and are jamming up page loading times and the like, then Safari will perform quicker, which means that the surfer has a better time surfing.
There are a few ways you can take advantage of these anti-ad related features in Safari 11.
One way is to choose to surf the web – or certain pages – in Reader mode.
Reader mode is a way of viewing webpages that Apple introduced back in 2010 in Safari 5. Reader displays just the text and images from a webpage, without any of the other page furniture. We think it is a bit like reading a Word document or a PDF. The feature hasn’t changed much over the years, but in Safari 11 it’s became possible to choose for a site to always be viewed in Reader Mode.
First, here’s how to view a site in Reader mode:
- Click on the stack of lines to the left of the URL bar.
- This will automatically change the webpage to Reader view.
- Click on the stack of lines to turn Reader view off.
It’s worth checking how a site appears in this mode before switching over to it because not all sites implement it particularly well (sometimes you will find that an article stops abruptly because only one page has been carried into Reader view). Some sites don’t have a Reader view at all (such as Apple, for example).
And here is how to customise your settings so that whenever you visit that site the pages are viewed in Reader mode:
- Click on Reader.
- Find the site you want to customise (any site you have open, or have recently visited will be listed here).
- Toggle the drop-down menu beside that site to On.
A quicker way to do this is to right-click or control-click on the stack of lines beside the URL and choose Use Reader Automatically.
Or, as long as you are on the website you wish to change the setting for, you can click on Safari > Settings for this Website, and choose Use Reader When Available.
How to surf in private using Safari
Another useful feature in Safari is the option to use a private browsing window. This doesn’t just keep your browsing habits private from someone else who has access to your Mac, it also means that you are incognito – in other words even the websites you are visiting don’t have any information about you.
Go to Safari > File > New Private Window (or shift-cmd-n). You can tell if a window is private because the search bar will be grey. Any new tabs you open in this window will be private.
Alternatively, to open a Private Browsing window you can click shift, command and N.
You can tell it’s a private window because the URL field will be greyed out.
Hold down Option/Alt while picking Private Browsing to quickly switch it on and bypass the ‘Do you want to switch on Private Browsing?’ alert window if you happen to see it frequently. We have a complete guide to private browsing on Safari here .
For even more privacy, you can choose to always search with privacy-obsessed DuckDuckGo as your default search engine. Go to Safari > Preferences > Search, and click on the Search Engine. Then select Duck Duck Go from the Search Engine dropdown list. You can choose from Google, Bing, Yahoo or DuckDuckGo.
How to delete your histroy in Safari
If you didn’t search using a private browsing window you can still delete your history and evidence of what you were up to.
- Click on History.
- Scroll down and click on Clear History.
- You can choose to clear history for Today, the last hour, today and yesterday, or all history.
- You’ll see a warning that Clearing history will remove related cookies and other website data. Basically this is warning you that if you go ahead and Clear History you may find that you have to log onto websites, or shopping cart information may disappear.
- If you are happy with that then click on Clear history.
We have a complete tutorial all about how to delete your browser history on a Mac here .
How to delete cookies in Safari
Another new feature that came in Safari 11 was the introduction of privacy protection, a feature that’ll stop those annoying Amazon adverts showing you products after you’ve bought them.
Safari actively tries to block the cross-site tracking data that powers targeted adverts. While it won’t completely stop it, it should have a noticeable effect when using the browser.
According to Apple this isn’t an attempt to block ads, but rather to protect your privacy.
This means that you should no longer need to delete cookies if you want to stop seeing targeted ads (cookies have also been known to affect the price for goods if you have previously shown an interest in a product so deleting cookies could avoid such practices).
If you want to go a step further regarding cookies in Safari 11 there are some preferences changes you can make.
- Beside Website tracking click on Ask websites not to track me.
- Beside Cookies and website data click on Block all cookies.
If you aren’t using Safari 11 you can still delete cookies.
- Click on the Privacy tab.
- Click on Remove All Website Data…
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Introduction
Safari, Apple's sleek and intuitive web browser, offers a plethora of features and functionalities accessible through its menu. Whether you're using a Mac, iPhone, or iPad, knowing how to navigate the Safari menu can significantly enhance your browsing experience. From managing bookmarks and extensions to accessing privacy and security settings, the Safari menu serves as a gateway to a multitude of tools and options.
In this article, we'll delve into the various methods for accessing the Safari menu on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Additionally, we'll explore how to customize the Safari menu to suit your preferences, empowering you to make the most of this powerful browser .
Let's embark on a journey through the virtual landscapes of Safari, uncovering the hidden gems nestled within its menu. Whether you're a seasoned Safari user or a newcomer to the world of Apple's browsing ecosystem, this guide will equip you with the knowledge and skills to navigate the Safari menu with confidence and ease. So, fasten your seatbelt and get ready to embark on an exciting safari through the digital wilderness of web browsing!
Accessing Safari Menu on Mac
Accessing the Safari menu on a Mac is a straightforward process that unlocks a treasure trove of features and settings. Whether you're looking to manage your browsing history, adjust privacy preferences, or explore the extensive range of tools Safari offers, the menu is your gateway to a world of possibilities.
Method 1: Using the Menu Bar
Standard Method : The most common way to access the Safari menu is by utilizing the menu bar located at the top of the screen. Upon launching Safari, simply navigate to the top of your screen, where you'll find the menu bar. Click on "Safari," and a dropdown menu will appear, presenting a plethora of options, including preferences, bookmarks, and extensions.
Keyboard Shortcut : For those who prefer shortcuts, you can also access the Safari menu by using keyboard commands. Simply press "Command" (⌘) along with the comma (,) key, and the Safari menu will instantly materialize, ready to cater to your browsing needs.
Method 2: Contextual Menu
Another convenient way to access the Safari menu is by right-clicking (or control-clicking) anywhere within the Safari window. This action will summon a contextual menu, where you can swiftly navigate to various sections of the Safari menu, such as accessing your reading list, managing tabs, or initiating a new private window.
Method 3: Using the Touch Bar (MacBook Pro)
If you're the proud owner of a MacBook Pro equipped with a Touch Bar, accessing the Safari menu becomes even more intuitive. The Touch Bar dynamically adapts to your browsing activities, offering quick access to essential functions such as bookmarks, tab management, and the ability to initiate a new private window.
Method 4: Customizing the Toolbar
Safari also allows users to customize the toolbar, providing a personalized browsing experience. By right-clicking on the toolbar area, you can add or remove various buttons, including those for accessing the Safari menu. This customization feature empowers users to tailor their browsing environment to suit their specific needs and preferences.
Mastering the art of accessing the Safari menu on your Mac opens up a world of possibilities, enabling you to harness the full potential of this powerful web browser . Whether you're a casual user or a seasoned pro, navigating the Safari menu with ease is the first step toward unlocking a seamless and tailored browsing experience.
Accessing Safari Menu on iPhone and iPad
Accessing the Safari menu on your iPhone or iPad is essential for unlocking a range of features and settings that enhance your browsing experience. Whether you want to manage bookmarks, adjust privacy settings, or explore the full suite of Safari tools, the menu is your gateway to a world of possibilities.
Accessing the Safari menu on your iPhone or iPad is a seamless process. Upon launching Safari, you can find the menu bar at the bottom of the screen. Tap the "Aa" icon, and a menu will appear, offering a variety of options, including Reader View, content blockers, and website settings.
Method 2: Long-Pressing the Refresh Button
Another convenient way to access the Safari menu is by performing a long-press on the refresh button located at the top right of the Safari interface. This action triggers a dropdown menu, providing quick access to options such as Request Desktop Site, Reader View, and content blockers.
Method 3: Using 3D Touch (iPhone Only)
For iPhone users with 3D Touch capabilities, applying pressure to the Safari app icon on the home screen activates a Quick Actions menu. From here, you can swiftly navigate to frequently visited sites, initiate a new private tab, or access your reading list, all without even opening the Safari app.
Safari on iPad allows users to customize the toolbar, providing a personalized browsing experience. By tapping the "Aa" icon and selecting "Edit," you can add or remove various buttons, including those for accessing the Safari menu. This customization feature empowers users to tailor their browsing environment to suit their specific needs and preferences.
Mastering the art of accessing the Safari menu on your iPhone or iPad opens up a world of possibilities, enabling you to harness the full potential of this powerful web browser. Whether you're a casual user or a seasoned pro, navigating the Safari menu with ease is the first step toward unlocking a seamless and tailored browsing experience on your mobile device.
Customizing Safari Menu
Customizing the Safari menu offers a personalized browsing experience tailored to your specific needs and preferences. Whether you're using Safari on a Mac, iPhone, or iPad, the ability to customize the menu empowers you to optimize your browsing environment.
Mac Customization Options
On a Mac, Safari allows users to customize the toolbar, providing a seamless way to access frequently used features. By right-clicking on the toolbar area, you can select "Customize Toolbar" and add or remove various buttons, including those for accessing the Safari menu. This feature enables you to streamline your browsing experience by placing essential tools within easy reach.
Additionally, Safari on Mac offers the flexibility to rearrange menu items to suit your workflow. By navigating to "View" and selecting "Customize Toolbar," you can drag and drop menu items to reposition them according to your preferences. This level of customization ensures that the Safari menu reflects your browsing habits and priorities, enhancing efficiency and convenience.
iPhone and iPad Customization Options
Safari on iPhone and iPad also provides customization options to tailor the browsing experience to your liking. On iPad, tapping the "Aa" icon and selecting "Edit" allows you to add or remove various buttons, including those for accessing the Safari menu. This customization feature ensures that essential tools are readily accessible, empowering you to navigate the Safari menu with ease.
For iPhone users, Safari's menu customization options are seamlessly integrated into the browsing experience. By utilizing the "Aa" icon and selecting "Edit" on the toolbar, you can personalize the menu to align with your browsing habits and preferences. This level of customization ensures that the Safari menu on your iPhone reflects your unique needs, enhancing usability and convenience.
Empowering Personalized Browsing
Customizing the Safari menu across Mac, iPhone, and iPad empowers users to create a browsing environment that aligns with their individual preferences and habits. Whether you prioritize quick access to bookmarks, reader view, or privacy settings, customizing the Safari menu ensures that essential tools are within easy reach, enhancing your overall browsing experience.
By embracing the customization options offered by Safari, users can optimize their browsing environment, streamline their workflow, and enjoy a seamless and tailored web browsing experience. Whether you're a casual user or a power browser, the ability to customize the Safari menu puts you in control, allowing you to create a browsing environment that caters to your unique needs and enhances your overall satisfaction with the Safari browser .
Mastering the art of accessing and customizing the Safari menu on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad is a gateway to a world of possibilities, empowering you to harness the full potential of this powerful web browser. By seamlessly navigating the Safari menu, users can effortlessly manage bookmarks, adjust privacy settings, explore extensions, and access a myriad of tools and features that enhance the browsing experience.
The Safari menu serves as a central hub for a wide array of functionalities, from managing browsing history and reader view to adjusting privacy and security settings. Whether you're a casual user or a seasoned pro, the Safari menu offers a wealth of options to cater to your browsing needs, ensuring a seamless and tailored experience.
Furthermore, the ability to customize the Safari menu across Mac, iPhone, and iPad provides users with the flexibility to tailor their browsing environment to align with their unique preferences and habits. By adding or removing buttons, rearranging menu items, and personalizing the toolbar, users can create a browsing experience that reflects their individual needs, enhancing efficiency and convenience.
In conclusion, the Safari menu is a gateway to a world of possibilities, offering a seamless way to access essential tools and features that enrich the browsing experience. Whether you're exploring the depths of the web on your Mac or navigating the digital landscape on your iPhone or iPad, mastering the art of accessing and customizing the Safari menu empowers you to embark on a seamless and tailored safari through the virtual wilderness of web browsing.
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Safari: A Beginner’s Guide for iPhone or iPad Users
Safari can be intimidating to learn when you first start using it, but this guide will help you get used to it.
On Apple devices, the default web browser is called Safari. It shares a lot of similar features to other common browsers, like Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. But if you’re new to using Safari, you may feel a little lost because the interface is slightly different to the others.
So, here’s a beginner’s guide on how to use the Safari app to browse the web on your iPhone or iPad.
How to Search for Content in the Safari App
As with all web browsers, you’ll need to first enable your iPhone’s mobile data or connect to a Wi-Fi network to access the internet.
Then, to search in Safari, simply type a term, phrase, or URL into the Smart Search bar at the bottom of the screen and tap Go on your keyboard. The Smart Search bar is a combination of the address bar and search bar. As you type, you’ll see search suggestions based on your keyword as well as results from your bookmarks and browsing history.
How to Navigate a Webpage in Safari
Once you obtain your search results, you tap on a link you’re interested in. Now let’s look at how you can navigate the webpage once it’s loaded.
How to Jump Back to the Top of Webpage
After swiping to scroll down a long article, you may want to go back up to access the website’s menu. To instantly jump back to the top of the webpage, just tap the topmost edge of your screen.
How to Go Backward (or Forward) a Webpage
After tapping on a link, perhaps the webpage isn’t quite something you’re looking for. To go back to your search results, swipe from left to right from the edge of your screen.
To go forward on a webpage, swipe from right to left instead.
Related: Essential Safari iOS Tips & Tricks for iPhone Users
How to Reveal the Safari Address Bar
Your Safari address bar is automatically hidden away when you’re scrolling down a webpage. To bring it back, tap the bottom edge of the screen that shows the website’s main URL.
How to Work With Multiple Tabs in the Safari App
Having multiple tabs opened in Safari can help you to compare information between webpages and search for new content without having to close your current webpage. Here’s how to work with multiple tabs in Safari on your iPhone or iPad.
How to Open a New Tab
To open a new tab, select the Tabs icon in the bottom-right corner, which looks like two overlapping squares. Then tap the Plus (+) to open a new tab.
How to Switch Between Tabs
Again, hit the Tabs icon. You’ll see a gallery of all your opened tabs in Safari. Select a tab to visit the webpage you want.
Since the release of iOS 15, Apple introduced a new feature in Safari: tab groups. Many of us are probably guilty of having way too many opened tabs. Therefore, organizing tabs into groups makes them more manageable. Learn more about how to use tab groups in Safari on your iPhone .
How to Open a Link in a New Background Tab
When you read long articles, you’ll likely come across a link or two within the content that sparks your interest. To avoid disrupting your reading process, you can make Safari open the link in the background, in a new tab. To do so:
- Go to the Settings app.
- Select Safari .
- Scroll down and tap Open Links .
- Choose In Background .
Next time you want to open a link, long-press it. Then, select Open in Background . When you want to visit that link, select Tabs to view all your opened tabs and choose the loaded webpage.
Saving and Sharing Webpages in Safari
The internet gives you access to a whole new world of information. Save a webpage to refer to it later, or share it with your family and friends.
How to Bookmark a Safari Webpage
To bookmark a webpage to read later, tap the Share icon in the middle of the bottom of the screen (it looks like an arrow coming out of a square) and select Add Bookmark . Type in a bookmark name.
To access your bookmarked webpage later, tap the Bookmark icon (an opened book) and browse through your bookmarks, reading list, and history to find what you’re looking for.
Besides the bookmark option, you’ll also notice that you can add a webpage to your favorites or reading list. Marking a webpage as a favorite will make it show up on your Safari home page. It’s useful if you visit the website often.
To learn more about reading lists, you can visit our guide on the differences between a bookmark and a reading list .
How to Share a Link From the Safari App
Stumble upon an interesting DIY project? A promising recipe you’d like to share with your family? You don’t have to bookmark and remind yourself to show the webpage to them later. You can share the link directly from the Safari app.
Tap the Share icon. You can then select the receiver’s name from the horizontal list of recent contacts, or choose your preferred communication app to send the Safari link to them.
Erasing Your Digital Footprint in Safari
If you’re an aspiring crime writer, having a friend notice your crime-filled search history when they peer over your shoulder is inevitably awkward. Hence, there are some things we’d prefer to keep private and erase all traces of once we exit a web browser.
Safari has a few features to help you with this.
How to Close a Tab
If you don’t close your tabs, old webpages will just auto-load again the moment you head into Safari. Having too many opened tabs affects your browsing speed as well.
Closing a tab is simple. You just need to tap the Tabs icon and then tap the Close (x) button in the corner of the tab.
How to Browse Privately in Safari
Similar to Google Chrome’s Incognito Mode, Safari has a feature called Private Browsing Mode. Your autofill information and browser history won’t be saved when you use this function. Here’s how to use it:
- First, tap the Tabs icon.
- Select the center Tabs button with an arrow next to it.
- Choose Private .
- To open a new private tab, tap the Plus (+) button.
Whenever you’re in doubt about whether you’re in Private Browsing Mode, just check the Smart Search Bar. It will be dark grey instead of white when you’re browsing privately.
How to Clear Your Safari Browsing History
If you forgot to use Private Browsing while searching for confidential information, don’t worry. You can still clear your history in Safari. Just follow these steps:
- Tap the Bookmarks icon.
- Select History (the clock icon).
- Tap Clear .
- Choose the time length from which you want Safari to clear your history.
Use the Safari App to Surf the Internet on Your iPhone
The Safari app has all the features you need for a seamless browsing experience. Once you’re familiar with these basic functions, you can check out and download Safari extensions from the App Store to enjoy more helpful features while surfing the internet on your iPhone or iPad.
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Do you want to increase your privacy on Safari or maybe make it more useful for you? To change your Safari preferences on an iOS device, you'll need to use your device's Settings app instead of the Safari app. On macOS computers, you can change the settings from Safari's Preferences menu. Both the mobile and the desktop share some similar settings, but the desktop version has many more options available.
Things You Should Know
- On an iPhone or iPad, go to your device's Settings app to change the general preferences of Safari.
- On Mac, change your general preferences in "Safari > Settings > General."
- Changing things like your search engine and preventing trackers will provide you with more privacy and increase your security.
- This method works for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch.
- Forgot your iPhone's password? You can reset it in 2 ways !
- The "Search Engine Suggestions" toggle will provide search suggestions from your default search engine as you type.
- The "Safari Suggestions" toggle provides search suggestions curated by Apple.
- Use the Safari app instead of Settings to change how your Home page behaves .
- You can enable or disable various search preferences underneath this menu, including using Safari Suggestions.
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- ↑ https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/customize-your-safari-settings-iphb3100d149/ios
- ↑ http://www.macworld.com/article/2042451/exploring-safaris-preferences.html
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The Safari Settings You Should Tweak Right Now
Your browser is your window onto the world, the app you rely on most during the day. You want to wring every last drop of usefulness out of it. It definitely pays to know all of the features and tricks your daily browser is capable of. For iOS users, that means mastering Safari: how to stay safe online, how to get stuff done faster, and more.
For a smoother online experience, take a few minutes to run through these Safari tweaks to make your life online a little smoother.
Safari is very concerned about the strength of your passwords—perhaps even more so than you are. To see whether you're using any weak passwords, or duplicating passwords across accounts, open the Safari menu and choose Preferences then Passwords . A yellow exclamation mark indicates a potential problem with one of your listed passwords.
You'll often want to carry on watching a video while doing something else, and Safari can help—with a video playing, click and hold the audio icon in the address bar, then choose Enter Picture in Picture . The pop-out video player can be repositioned and resized as needed, but keep the original tab open in the background while you work on other tasks.
Websites want a lot these days: access to your webcam, your mic, your location , and more. To check what a site does and does not have access to, click Safari then Settings for This Website . You can revoke any permissions you've previously given, stop content from auto-playing, and limit the number of pop-up windows that the website can show.
It's taken a long time for Safari to support favicons (the little icons that represent websites), so you might as well take advantage; they also help you identify open tabs more easily as well. From the Safari menu, choose Preferences then Tabs , and then tick the checkbox labeled Show website icons in tabs to apply the change to the browser.
Having access to your recent browsing history can be useful for retracing your online steps, but you don't need it to follow you around for years. Open Safari then Preferences , switch to the General tab, then open Remove history items —you can delete browsing logs automatically after a day, week, fortnight, month, or year.
By default Safari just shows the domain name of the site you're visiting in the address bar, but this can make it tricky to work out exactly where you are on the web. To see the full URL instead, you need to open up the Safari menu, then the Preferences dialog, then switch to the Advanced tab—make sure the Show full website address box is ticked.
No productivity hack is ever going to beat an intuitive keyboard shortcut or two. You'll find a full list for Safari here and here , but some of our favorites include Space (and Shift+Space ) to scroll, Cmd+W to close a tab, Ctrl+Tab (and Shift+Ctrl+Tab ) to scroll through open tabs, and Cmd+L to jump straight to the Safari address bar at the top.
Safari, like every other Apple app, can be fully controlled with your voice in macOS Catalina. To enable the feature, open the Apple menu then choose System Preferences , Accessibility , Voice Control , and Enable Voice Control . It lets you speak out numbers for menus and links, zoom in and out, and much more—there's a full list of commands here .
Safari has an entire Develop menu that's not displayed by default but which is very handy for power users. To show it, open the Safari menu then choose Preferences , then Advanced , then tick the box marked Show Develop menu in menu bar. The new menu then appears, enabling you to access options such as disabling images or extensions.
Clearing out a browser's cache can often improve performance in the long term, even if it takes a short-term hit while local files are refreshed and reset. To do this in Safari, you first need to enable the Develop menu (see the step above), then you can open it and choose Empty Caches . This wipes all of Safari's temporary files and data off the local disk.
Safari has borrowed a very useful feature from Windows: the ability to "snap" open tabs to the left or right of the screen, so you can compare two side-by-side. Open up the Window menu, then choose Tile Window to Left of Screen or Tile Window to Right of Screen to do just that—your other windows are then automatically docked on the opposite side.
Apple devices all play wonderfully well together, as long as you're signed in on the same Apple ID, and jumping between open tabs on different devices is a breeze. To do this on Safari on macOS, you need to click on the Show tab overview button in the top right corner; you'll then see Safari tabs from your other devices listed lower down.
Who has time to read everything during the working day? No one! So make use of Safari's built-in Reading List tool. Use the Plus button on the left side of the address bar to add articles to the Reading List, then click the Show sidebar button (or View and Show Reading List Sidebar ) to bring up the list of all the posts you've saved during the day.
Safari gives you more control than you might have realized over the buttons and options that appear on the toolbar—having the tools you use most often in easy reach can make a big difference to your online productivity. To make changes, select View then Customize Toolbar , then just drag and drop the icons you need most often into the toolbar.
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How to use the new tab bar in iOS 15 Safari
iOS 15 introduces big changes to Safari — here's how to perform old, familiar features
Safari has been a mainstay of Apple's iPhones since the very beginning, but iOS 15 brings some major changes to the venerable web browser's appearance and functionality. Perhaps the biggest alteration is in the tab bar, the part of Safari's interface that governs how you interact with all the websites you've opened.
Most crucially, Safari's tab bar on the iPhone is now at the bottom of the screen by default, instead of the top. That takes some getting used to, not to mention an adjustment of muscle memory — assuming that you don't just go and make Safari's tab bar return to the top of the screen .
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The location of the tab bar may have changed, but other functions in Safari remain the same, even if they might look a little out of place if you keep that tab bar at the bottom of the screen. iOS 15 beta testers may also be confused, as Apple made several tweaks to the look of Safari in response to feedback from users.
To help you navigate around the redesigned Safari browser on your iPhone, here's a guide on how to use the tab bar in Safari on iOS 15, along with a reminder on how to handle some basic interactions.
How to open a new browser tab in iOS 15 Safari
1. Tap the tabs button in the bottom right corner of Safari.
2. Tap the blue plus (+) button on the left side of the location bar.
3. Alternatively, tap and hold on the tab button, then tap New Tab on the pop-up menu that appears.
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How to close a browser tab in iOS 15 Safari
1. Tap the tabs button in the right corner of the location bar.
2. You'll see an overview of all your currently open tabs. Tap the 'x' in the top right corner to close a tab.
3. Alternatively, when you're viewing the page you want to close, tap and hold on the tab button, then tap Close This Tab.
This step also allows you to close all tabs at once with a single tap.
How to share a website in iOS 15 Safari
1. Tap the Share button in the center of the location button.
2. On the ensuing screen, tap the contact you want to share a website link with (it will be in the last app you connected with them) or pick an app for sharing the link.
The Share icon is also what you tap to perform other actions with a particular web page. These actions include copying the link, adding it as a bookmark or favorite, searching for a word or phrase on the page, and adding to your reading list.
How to reload a website
If you tested an early beta of iOS 15, reloading a website was unnecessarily complicated, forcing you tap a More button in the tab bar; only then could you access the reload button. But later on during the beta process, the reload button was added to the tab bar — just tap it when you want to reload a page.
Alternatively, you can drag down from the top of the webpage to reload it in iOS 15 Safari.
How to activate Reader mode in iOS 15 Safari
1. Tap the Aa button on the left side of the tab bar.
2. Select Show Reader.
3. You're now in Reader mode. To close Reader, just repeat steps 1 and 2, only this time, select Hide Reader.
Alternatively, pressing and holding the Aa button automatically launches Reader mode.
How to switch between browser tabs in iOS 15 Safari
1. Tap the tab button along the bottom strip of icons in Safari.
2. Select the tab you want to open.
Alternatively, you can swipe upward on the location bar to see all your tabs.
You can also quickly move between taps by swiping the location bar left-to-right or right-to-left to switch to the next or previous open tab, though we've found this to be tricky on iPhones with smaller screens.
How to open a new private browser tab in iOS 15 Safari
1. Press and hold the tab button in the lower right strip of icons in Safari.
2. Select new Private Tab from the pop-up menu.
3. The tab bar will change colors, signifying you're now in private browsing mode.
4. To exit a Private tab, tap on the Tab icon again. Then select the Private drop-down menu.
5. From there, select your other, non-private tabs.
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How to turn on the develop menu in safari on mac.
The Develop menu lets you view page source in Safari on Mac.
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When you right-click on any web page in Safari on Mac, it doesn't reveal the Show Page Source and Inspect Element buttons. To see these, you need to enable the Develop menu---we'll show you how to do that.
Once you've enabled the Develop menu, right-clicking a blank space on any website will reveal the Inspect Element and Show Page Source buttons. These allow you to take a look at the source code of any website, which is useful for things like downloading images from websites and debugging code or finding out what it looks like behind any site (for website designers).
You can easily turn on the Develop menu in Safari by following a couple of steps. Open Safari on your Mac and click the "Safari" button in the menu bar.
Next, select "Preferences." Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut Command+, (comma). This will also open up Safari preferences.
Go to the "Advanced" tab.
Check the box for "Show Develop Menu in Menu Bar."
Now the Develop menu will appear between Bookmarks and Window at the top.
Apart from being able to view the page source, this will allow you to access developer-focused features, such as disabling JavaScript on any website.
Once you've enabled the Develop menu, there are a couple of ways to view the page source in Safari.
Open any website in Safari and right-click the blank space on the page. Now, select "Show Page Source." You can also get to this menu by using the keyboard shortcut Option+Command+u.
If you're looking for images or other media elements from any web page, Safari makes it easy to find these. In the left-hand pane, you will see various folders such as Images, Fonts, etc. Click the "Images" folder to quickly find the photos that you need.
After selecting an image, you can view its details easily by opening up the details sidebar. The button to open this is located at the top-right of the console, just below the gear icon. You can also open this with the shortcut Option+Command+0.
Click "Resource" at the top of the details sidebar to view details, such as the size of the image and its full URL.
You can change the position of the page source console easily, too. There are two buttons at the top-left of this console, right next to the X button. Click the rectangle icon to move the console to a different side within the browser window.
If you'd like to open the page source console in a separate window, you can click the two-rectangles icon. This will detach the console and open it in a separate window.
To check out the code for any specific element on the page, you can right-click that element and select "Inspect Element." This will take you directly to the code for the element that you selected.
Whenever you're done looking at the code, click the X button to close the page source console and return to browsing on Safari. You can also check out how to view a website's page source in Google Chrome here.
Related: How to View the HTML Source in Google Chrome
Blazing fast. Incredibly private.
Safari is the best way to experience the internet on all your Apple devices. It brings robust customization options, powerful privacy protections, and optimizes battery life — so you can browse how you like, when you like. And when it comes to speed, it’s the world’s fastest browser. 1
Performance
More with the battery. less with the loading..
With a blazing-fast JavaScript engine, Safari is the world’s fastest browser. 1 It’s developed to run specifically on Apple devices, so it’s geared to make the most out of your battery life and deliver long-lasting power.
Increased performance
We’re always working to make the fastest desktop browser on the planet even faster.
Improved power efficiency
Safari lets you do more online on a single charge.
Up to 4 hours more streaming videos compared with Chrome 3
Up to 17 hours of video streaming 3
Best-in-class browsing
Safari outperforms both Mac and PC browsers in benchmark after benchmark on the same Mac. 4
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- MotionMark /
- Speedometer /
JavaScript performance on advanced web applications. 4
Safari vs. other Mac browsers
Safari on macOS
Chrome on macOS
Edge on macOS
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Safari vs. Windows 11 browsers
Chrome on Windows 11
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Rendering performance of animated content. 4
Web application responsiveness. 4
4K video streaming
See your favorite shows and films in their best light. Safari supports in-browser 4K HDR video playback for YouTube, Netflix, and Apple TV+. 5 And it runs efficiently for longer-lasting battery life.
Privacy is built in.
Online privacy isn’t just something you should hope for — it’s something you should expect. That’s why Safari comes with industry-leading privacy protection technology built in, including Intelligent Tracking Prevention that identifies trackers and helps prevent them from profiling or following you across the web. Upgrading to iCloud+ gives you even more privacy protections, including the ability to sign up for websites and services without having to share your personal email address.
Intelligent Tracking Prevention
Safari stops trackers in their tracks.
What you browse is no one’s business but your own. Safari has built‑in protections to help stop websites and data-collection companies from watching and profiling you based on your browsing activity. Intelligent Tracking Prevention uses on‑device intelligence to help prevent cross‑site tracking and stops known trackers from using your IP address — making it incredibly difficult to learn who you are and what you’re interested in.
Privacy Report
Safari makes it simple to see how your privacy is protected on all the websites you visit. Click Privacy Report in the Safari menu for a snapshot of cross-site trackers currently prevented from profiling you on the website you’re visiting. Or view a weekly Privacy Report to see how Safari protects you as you browse over time.
Customization
Putting the you in url..
Safari is more customizable than ever. Organize your tabs into Tab Groups so it’s easy to go from one interest to the next. Set a custom background image and fine-tune your browser window with your favorite features — like Reading List, Favorites, iCloud Tabs, and Siri Suggestions. And third-party extensions for iPhone, iPad, and Mac let you do even more with Safari, so you can browse the way you want across all your devices.
Safari Profiles allow you to separate your history, extensions, Tab Groups, favorites, cookies, and more. Quickly switch between profiles for topics you create, like Personal and Work.
Web apps let you save your favorite websites to the Dock on Mac and to the Home Screen on iPhone and iPad. A simplified toolbar and separate settings give you an app-like experience.
Safari Extensions add functionality to your browser to help you explore the web the way you want. Find and add your favorite extensions in the dedicated Safari category on the App Store.
Save and organize your tabs in the way that works best for you. Name your Tab Groups, edit them, and switch among them across devices. You can also share Tab Groups — making planning your next family trip or group project easier and more collaborative.
Smart Tools
Designed to help your work flow..
Built-in tools create a browsing experience that’s far more immersive, intuitive, and immediate. Get detailed information about a subject in a photo with just a click, select text within any image, instantly translate an entire web page, and quickly take notes wherever you are on a site — without having to switch apps.
Notes is your go-to app to capture any thought. And with the Quick Note feature, you can instantly jot down ideas as you browse websites without having to leave Safari.
Translation
Translate entire web pages with a single click. You can also get translations for text in images and paused video without leaving Safari.
Interact with text in any image or paused video on the web using functions like copy and paste, translate, and lookup. 6
Visual Look Up
Quickly learn more about landmarks, works of art, breeds of dogs, and more with only a photo or an image you find online. And easily lift the subject of an image from Safari, remove its background, and paste it into Messages, Notes, or other apps.
Surf safe and sound.
Strong security protections in Safari help keep you safe. Passkeys introduce a safer way to sign in. iCloud Keychain securely stores and autofills passkeys and passwords across all your devices. Safari also notifies you when it encounters suspicious websites and prevents them from loading. Because it loads each web page in a separate process, any harmful code is always confined to a single browser tab so it won’t crash the entire application or access your data. And Safari automatically upgrades sites from HTTP to the more secure HTTPS when available.
Passkeys introduce a more secure and easier way to sign in. No passwords required.
Passkeys are end-to-end encrypted and safe from phishing and data leaks, and they are stronger than all common two-factor authentication types. Thanks to iCloud Keychain, they work across all your Apple devices, and they even work on non-Apple devices.
Learn more about passkeys
Apple Pay and Wallet make checkout as easy as lifting a finger.
Apple Pay is the easiest and most secure way to shop on Safari — allowing you to complete transactions with Face ID or Touch ID on your iPhone or iPad, with Touch ID on your MacBook Pro or MacBook Air, or by double-clicking the side button on your Apple Watch.
Learn more about Apple Pay
With AutoFill, you can easily fill in your previously saved credit card information from the Wallet app during checkout. Your credit card details are never shared, and your transactions are protected with industry-leading security.
Same Safari. Different device.
Safari works seamlessly and syncs your passwords, bookmarks, history, tabs, and more across Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch. And when your Mac, iOS, or iPadOS devices are near each other, they can automatically pass what you’re doing in Safari from one device to another using Handoff. You can even copy images, video, or text from Safari on your iPhone or iPad, then paste into another app on your nearby Mac — or vice versa.
When you use Safari on multiple devices, your tabs carry over from one Apple device to another. So you can search, shop, work, or browse on your iPhone, then switch to your iPad or Mac and pick up right where you left off.
Save web pages you want to read later by adding them to your Reading List. Then view them on any of your iCloud-connected devices — even if you’re not connected to the internet.
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Safari web browser is the default for the iPhone , iPad, and macOS , first released by Apple in 2003 and briefly offered on Windows from 2007 to 2012. The popularity of the Safari browser exploded with the iPhone and the iPad, and currently has about a 54% market share of mobile browser usage in the United States.
In most ways, Safari is like any other popular browser. Users can browse websites, bookmark favorites, and open multiple sites in tabs. Built using the WebKit engine, Safari was one of the first web browsers to support the new HTML 5 standard. It was also one of the first browsers to have support for Adobe Flash turned off by default, with the mobile versions of Safari having never supported Flash .
Safari on Mac OS is currently on version 11.1, which includes an upgrade to Intelligent Tracking Prevention. This feature helps prevent a specific website from tracking pages browsed on other websites, a process called 'cross-site tracking. Safari on iOS shares its version with the iOS version, which is currently on 12.1.
What Makes Safari Stand out From Other Web Browsers?
While you might have trouble spotting the differences between Google Chrome, Apple's Safari, or Microsoft Edge at first glance, the Safari browser has some key features that help separate it from the pack, including the ability to format articles for easier reading.
- iCloud Tab Browsing . This feature automatically syncs open tabs across devices with the same iCloud account. You can view a list of all tabs open on your MacBook while using Safari on the iPhone or iPad. It's similar to Chrome's bookmark sharing but doesn't require logging in.
- Sharing . The Safari app has a built-in share button that enables users to quickly share a website through messaging, email, or social media. The coolest feature is the ability to share a site directly with another nearby iPhone, iPad, or Mac using AirDrop.
- Reader View . Safari can detect articles and present them in a format that strips out navigation and advertisement in favor of a more readable view. This view is especially great for websites that load new windows as you scroll or become unreadable on an iPhone or iPad because of navigation.
- Energy Efficient . While iMacs are great desktop computers, Apple is primarily a laptop and mobile device provider. Safari proves this by being extremely energy efficient, buying you precious minutes, and sometimes even hours of extra use compared to Chrome, Firefox, and other popular browsers.
What Are Safari's Deficits?
The Safari web browser has a lot going for it, especially for those who are rooted in the Apple ecosystem and own a Mac along with an iPhone or iPad. However, it's not all roses and butterflies:
- Limited Plugin Support. Safari supports Extension, but the plugins available for Safari lag behind those available for Chrome.
- Exclusive to Apple . While it's possible to run Safari on Linux and it was briefly supported on Windows, Safari is primarily a web browser made to run on Apple hardware. You can't run it on Android smartphones or tablets, and you should avoid the Windows version because Apple no longer supports it with critical security updates.
- No Tab Icons . Favicons are essentially icons for websites. And while browsers like Google Chrome use these icons in tabs to help differentiate browser tabs and help the user pick out the one they want, Safari doesn't include them on tabs.
While Safari is the default browser for iOS and Mac, users can download a wide range of browsers on either platform. The Mac supports Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Vivaldi, and many other web browsers, while iPhone and iPad users can download Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and even Microsoft Edge.
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How to enable the Develop menu in Safari
Safari on macOS has some useful tools and settings built in to it for advanced users and software developers, but they are disabled by default (because they also let you change settings which most users probably don't need to touch).
To enable the Develop menu in Safari and get access to them, follow these steps:
Click the "Safari" menu
Make sure you have a Safari window open and active; you will see the "Safari" menu in the top left of your screen. Click it and it will expand to show Safari specific options.
Click the "Preferences" menu item
Now that you have expanded the Safari menu, you will see the Preferences item - click on it.
The Safari Preferences screen will now appear.
Click on the "Advanced" tab
The Safari Preferences screen has a number of sections, indicated by the various options along the top of the screen (General/Tabs/AutoFill etc). Click the Security item to see security related options.
Click the "Show Develop menu in menu bar" checkbox
If the checkbox has a tick symbol it means the Develop menu is already enabled; if the checkbox has no tick and is empty, it is not enabled yet. If you want to enable it, simply click the checkbox and you will see the Develop menu item instantly appear in Safari.
You will now see the "Develop" menu appear at the top of the screen in Safari.
The Develop menu gives you easy access to some advanced controls in Safari. Make sure you know what you're doing if you use any of the options in it! One of the things it gives you access to is the Clear Cache in Safari Shortcut .
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How to bookmark Safari Tab groups (and other bookmark tips)
Safari Tabs are moderately useful for research, though Apple made some some inconsistent UI decisions.
And a big welcome back to AppleHolic readers. Today, I wanted to explain how to make better use of Safari Tabs in iOS 15, iPad OS 15, and macOS Monterey — particularly for researchers.
Slowly getting used to Safari Tabs
There are things I like about Apple’s new tab support in Safari. Where it shines is in the provision of contextualized collections of web pages across all my devices, though I do feel some friction when trying to use the new browser.
Why can’t I place specific tabs into specific Tab Groups using the Share menu? Why isn’t it clear how to add a page to a Tab Group? Why isn’t it immediately obvious how to save these pages, which otherwise disappear once closed on any device?
I feel like the usability still isn’t quite right, which is why on some devices I’ve tried to roll back as many of those changes as I can .
But time moves on, and most people will be using the default system now that it is universally available. And while it took me some time to get used to it, I’m finding some features more useful than expected.
How to use Safari Tabs for research
Safari Tabs are moderately useful for research. Imagine you are working on a project about dogs (and everyone should love these animals). The first thing you’ll need to do is create a Safari Tab Group called ‘dogs,’ because that’s the place you’ll pop all your dog-related pages in, until you save them as bookmarks (more later).
Creating a new group is slightly different on each device. Here is how to create a new Safari Tab group:
- On iPhone, you’ll tap and hold the dual squares icon at the bottom right of the browser page, tap Move to Tab Group, and then tap New Tab Group .
- On iPad, you’ll open the sidebar and then tap and hold the new dual rectangle with plus character icon at the top right of the bar and choose New Empty Tab Group or New Tab Group, which will contain your currently open tabs.
- On Mac, you’ll open the sidebar and then tap and hold the new dual rectangle with plus character icon at the top right of the bar and choose New Empty Tab Group or New Tab Group .
OK, so now you’ve created a group.
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What this means is that as you work on your project you will be able to add individual pages to the appropriate Tab Group by tapping and holding the website address bar (iPad, iPhone) and choosing Move to Tab Group ; or control click the website tab (rather than address) on Mac and choosing Move to Tab Group in the contextual menu that will appear.
I’m a long way from feeling natural about this. But I do like that whatever page I have open on any of my devices in any of my Tab Groups is made immediately available across all my other devices.
What I don’t like is that they aren’t saved. So, if you accidentally close a page (such as when fumbling to export it into a different group), it’s gone. That’s why you need this tip:
How to bookmark your open Safari Tabs
The best way to save a web page from within Safari is to bookmark the page. When working with Apple’s new Tab Groups, you’ll need to become accustomed to different ways of achieving this need on each Apple platform.
On iPad, do it like this:
To bookmark all the tabs you have open in your current Safari Tabs space on your iPad, you’ll need to do this:
- Tap and hold the address bar (not a page tab bar) until you see a contextual menu appear that offers to Copy, Add to Reading List, Add Bookmark and Add Bookmarks for XX tabs.
- To bookmark your open Safari Tabs, choose Add Bookmarks for XX Tabs.
- You’ll be able to choose a location and name for the collection on the next page, after which you press save.
If you are using an iPhone, do it this way:
To bookmark all the Safari Tabs you have open in your current Safari Tabs space on your iPhone, you’ll need a completely different approach:
- Tap and hold the bookmarks icon at the bottom of the browser.
- Choose Add Bookmarks for XX Tabs.
- Choose a location and name and press save.
And if you’re on a Mac…
How do you bookmark all your open Safari tabs on a Mac? While in the relevant Tag Group, you’ll need to shimmy your mouse up to the Menu bar, select Bookmarks, and then choose Add Bookmarks for these XX Tabs.
Summing up Tabs
While I find Safari Tabs more useful than anticipated, I think both the Tab and bookmark management functions should be made clearly and consistently available via the Share pane across all devices. This would reduce user friction and make for a smoother and more discoverable user experience.
In its present form, I can imagine people thinking they had saved a page by placing it in a Tab Group, only to find they hadn’t once they closed that page.
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How to Clear Cookies On Your iPhone (and Why You Should)
T his is a complete guide on how to clear cookies on iPhone . It covers the most popular mobile browsers, such as Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox, and Opera.
When you delete cookies, you free up space on your iPhone and stop websites from following you around the web. Therefore, you protect your personal information and privacy online.
Let's jump right to it.
What Are Cookies on My iPhone?
Cookies are small encrypted pieces of information that websites store on your iPhone to remember information about you and your visit.
A typical example would be when you visit an online store and add a product to your shopping cart but don't complete the order.
So next time you visit the same website, you'll find your item right where you left it, in the shopping cart. That's the power of cookies.
Should I Clear Cookies on My iPhone?
Besides personalizing your experience and making surfing the web a pleasant adventure, cookies can sometimes become a serious problem. At some point, you may need to delete them from your browser.
Even though they're tiny, they can take up space over time, which may affect your device's performance speed.
Speaking of performance, please read this helpful article for an in-depth guide on how to speed up your iPhone .
Sometimes, cookies get obsolete, which can create vulnerability so hackers can steal your information. You sure don't want any of that.
That's why you need to clear cookies on your iPhone because it can protect your phone from hackers . So enough with the waffling; we've got a lot to cover in this guide. Let’s get started.
How to Clear Cookies in Safari on an iPhone
While cookies may pose a problem in certain circumstances, we don't recommend you block them altogether.
This will lead to bad user experiences. Instead, delete them periodically. Without further ado, let's get started.
Step 1 . To clear cookies on your iPhone, open the Settings app, scroll down until you find the Safari app, and tap on it.
Step 2 . Under the "Privacy & Security" section of the Safari screen, tap Clear History and Website Data .
A prompt window will show up asking for your confirmation
Step 3 . Select the time period for which you want to delete cookies (e.g., last hour, today, today and yesterday, all history). Then, tap Clear History to remove your browsing history, cookies, and other website data from Safari.
This method will delete all cookies stored in Safari and also erase all cache, browsing history, and other data.
Delete Cookies for Specific Sites on Safari
If you only want to delete cookies for certain websites, proceed this way.
Step 1 . From the Home screen, open Settings and select Safari .
Step 2 . Tap Advanced at the bottom of the screen.
Step 3 . On the next screen, select Website Data .
Step 4 . You should see a list of all cookies saved on your iPhone for every website you've visited. Tap Remove All Website Data at the end of the screen to delete every single cookie saved on your browser.
Step 5 . A prompt will appear on the screen to confirm your decision. Just tap Remove Now . This will prevent websites from tracking what you do on the web.
If you want to delete cookies for a particular website, tap the Edit button on the upper right of the screen, then tap the red minus icon next to the website name.
To delete cookies for a specific website, swipe left on that website's entry.
As mentioned earlier, we don't recommend blocking cookies as some websites require them to function properly.
However, if you still wish to proceed, here's how to block all cookies on an iPhone.
- Open the Settings app from the Home screen.
- Scroll down and tap Safari .
- Tap Advanced .
- Turn on Block All Cookies by sliding the toggle to the right.
- Then, tap Block All to confirm your action.
Not everyone is a fan of Safari. If you happen to use other browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Opera to surf the web on your iPhone, here's how to delete cookies stored by them.
How to Clear Cookies in Chrome on Your iPhone
Follow the steps below to clear cookies in Chrome on your iPhone.
1. Launch the Chrome app, then tap the ... menu icon in the lower-right corner.
2. On the next screen, select Settings from the menu tab.
3. Swipe up, then select Privacy . You may not need to swipe if you have an iPhone with a large display.
4. On the next screen, tap Clear Browsing Data to delete all the data Chrome has stored when visiting web sites over time.
5. From the list, choose what you want to delete. To clear only cookies on your iPhone, select " Cookies , Site Data. " You can also specify a time range if needed.
6. Choose Clear Browsing Data , then tap Clear Browsing Data again to confirm your decision.
How to Clear Cookies in Firefox on Your iPhone
Follow the instructions below to clear cookies in Firefox on your iPhone.
1. From your home screen, open the Firefox app, then tap the hamburger menu icon in the lower right corner of the screen.
2. Tap Settings right at the bottom.
3. Scroll down and select Data Management .
4. Tap Clear Private Data at the bottom of the page and confirm your decision by tapping OK in the confirmation window.
How to Clear Cookies on Opera on Your iPhone
Now that we've covered Chrome and Firefox let's see how to clear cookies on Opera on your iPhone. The steps are pretty similar.
1. Open the Opera app and tap the vertical three-dots Menu button at the top right corner of the screen.
2. Then, tap on Settings from the drop-down menu.
3. In the Browser section, tap Clear Browser Data .
4. Select Cookies and Site Data from the list. Note that this will sign you out of most sites.
5. Then, tap the Clear button at the top right corner of the screen.
After following the steps, a "Data Cleared" message will appear, confirming that all cookies stored by Opera have been deleted and reset.
Final Thoughts on Clearing Cookies on iPhone
Clearing cookies periodically on your iPhone can protect your online privacy and make your device run faster by freeing up storage space and removing website data that may contain personal information.
Let us know if this helped you clear cookies on your iPhone. If you have any feedback or questions, please don't hesitate to comment below.
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Should I clear cookies on my iPhone?
Although not essential, periodically clearing the cookies on your iPhone can free up storage space and resolve certain browsing problems.
What happens when I delete iPhone cookies?
When you delete your iPhone cookies, it removes all the data from the built-in browser.
Is there a downside to deleting cookies?
Clearing cookies can enhance your internet speed, but it may result in slower access to frequently visited websites.
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Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 191 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview , the experimental browser Apple first introduced in March 2016. Apple designed the Safari Technology Preview to test features that may be introduced into future release versions of Safari.
The current Safari Technology Preview release is compatible with machines running macOS Ventura and macOS Sonoma , the latest version of macOS that Apple released in September 2023.
The Safari Technology Preview update is available through the Software Update mechanism in System Preferences or System Settings to anyone who has downloaded the browser . Full release notes for the update are available on the WebKit blog .
Apple's aim with Safari Technology Preview is to gather feedback from developers and users on its browser development process. Safari Technology Preview can run side-by-side with the existing Safari browser and while designed for developers, it does not require a developer account to download.
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An elderly American tourist was killed after an "aggressive" bull elephant attacked a vehicle during a game drive in Zambia, the safari operator said.
The incident took place Saturday morning at Kafue National Park, a Lusaka Police spokesperson confirmed to ABC News. Gail Mattson, 79, was confirmed by the family as the victim.
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Using Apple’s iCloud Passwords Outside Safari
We regularly recommend using a password manager like 1Password, and for good reason. Passkeys may eventually take over—and I hope to explore them soon—but until that time, we’re stuck with passwords, and managing them manually is less secure and vastly more work. For many years, solutions like 1Password, BitWarden, Dashlane, and LastPass (which I no longer recommend—see “ LastPass Publishes More Details about Its Data Breaches ,” 3 March 2023) fell into the must-have category.
Apple’s Keychain Access utility has long provided basic password management capabilities in macOS but has never been particularly usable. With macOS 12 Monterey, iOS 15, and iPadOS 15, Apple gave passwords a better user-facing interface in System Preferences and Safari on the Mac and the Settings app on the iPhone and iPad. Although the settings screens are labeled Passwords and the iCloud-based password syncing feature is called iCloud Keychain, Apple doesn’t seem to have a formal name for the totality of these password management features, making it hard to talk about them in the same sentence as something like 1Password. For this article, I will use the name iCloud Passwords for reasons that will soon become obvious.
Although iCloud Passwords didn’t—and still doesn’t—have full feature parity with third-party password managers, it was pretty good. It offered all the basics, such as auto-fill, editing, searching, and even syncing through iCloud Keychain. Over time, Apple added support for one-time passwords, password sharing, and more. Importantly, it’s also completely free.
Despite these improvements, iCloud Passwords suffered in one significant way: it worked only in Safari. On the iPhone and iPad, that wasn’t a problem because other Web browsers relied on the same WebKit engine as Safari. (Apple also allowed Safari to treat third-party password managers as first-class alternatives.) But Mac users who wanted to use Chromium-based browsers like Arc, Brave, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera, and Vivaldi, or Mozilla’s Firefox couldn’t take advantage of iCloud Passwords.
In 2021, Apple released the iCloud Passwords extension for Google Chrome, but only for Windows. In July 2023, Apple updated it to version 2.0, adding support for Mac versions of Google Chrome running in macOS 14 Sonoma. Although I’m happy with 1Password, I’ve been using iCloud Passwords for the past month in Arc to see if I could recommend iCloud Passwords for those who don’t rely on Safari. While I miss features from 1Password, the answer is yes: iCloud Passwords works fine. At least that’s true for me—I see reviews on the Chrome Web Store page that claim it doesn’t work or broke after some update, but I’ve been using it long enough that I’m comfortable saying it’s functional.
Although Apple released iCloud Passwords only for Chromium browsers—and it seems to work equally as well in all the variants I’ve tried—the company has done nothing for Firefox users. However, an independent developer named Aurélien recently published a Firefox add-on also called iCloud Passwords , so that’s an option for those running Sonoma or recent versions of Windows—it doesn’t work for earlier versions of macOS. It’s not yet well-known, with only 716 users last I checked (versus 2 million for the iCloud Passwords Chrome extension), but I’ve installed it and verified that it works. Although I’m a little hesitant to recommend an independent add-on that interacts with a system-wide password store, it’s open source, and anyone can view its code on GitHub .
Passwords Settings
Before we get to the specifics of using iCloud Passwords in a Chromium browser, I want to review the basics of password management in macOS. You access your passwords in System Settings > Passwords or Safari > Settings > Passwords —they’re the same—and you must authenticate every time you go there. Touch ID or Apple Watch authentication makes that a lot easier.
Let’s look at all the options from the top:
- Search field: Use this to find logins in the list below by searching for the site name or username. Unlike 1Password, you can’t search for strings contained in your passwords.
- + menu: Choose New Password or New Shared Group as desired. Most of the time, you’ll create new logins while setting up an account on a website—iCloud Passwords offers to remember the login information for you. More on shared groups shortly.
- ••• menu: Apple puts the Import and Export commands in this unhelpfully labeled menu. The import/export format is CSV, and Apple warns that exported passwords will be stored unencrypted. (As an aside, I think using + and ••• to label menus is borderline criminal interface design, but it’s just one of many decisions in System Settings that will make its designers first up against the wall when the revolution comes.)
Nothing in Passwords Settings will set the world on fire, but Apple has provided a solid set of basic features.
iCloud Passwords in a Browser
To autofill your passwords in a Chromium browser like Arc, Brave, or Google Chrome, you need to install Apple’s iCloud Passwords extension from the Chrome Web Store. That’s as simple as clicking the Add to Chrome button and acknowledging that you want to install when prompted.
How you interact with extensions varies a bit by browser, though most let you add them to a toolbar. In Chromium browsers other than Arc (which has a bug in this area), clicking a login form displays a notification that you can click to enable Password AutoFill. Arc has no such toolbar, but choosing Extensions > iCloud Passwords has the same effect as clicking the toolbar button or the notification.
However you invoke it, iCloud Passwords presents you with two dialogs: a system-level dialog with a verification code and a browser-level dialog into which you enter it. If you make a mistake typing, you’re instantly presented with another code.
Although this verification approach is straightforward, it’s required for every launch of the Web browser, so you may end up typing a lot of verification codes. It’s much easier to use biometric authentication via Touch ID or an Apple Watch in 1Password; I presume other password managers also support biometric authentication.
Once you’ve enabled Password AutoFill, it’s trivially easy to use. Just click in a login form, and iCloud Passwords detects that action and presents you with passwords that match the domain of the site you’re on. Click one to enter its information in the login form fields. Typically, only a single password will appear, but if you have multiple logins at different sites within the same domain, as I do in the screenshot below, you get to pick one.
(As an aside, this domain detection is one of the key reasons to use a password manager—they can’t be fooled into helping you enter a password onto a malicious site pretending to be something else. A human might not notice, but app1e.com isn’t apple.com in the eyes of a password manager.)
If a login form has both a username and password field, iCloud Passwords will autofill both. If the login process first requires you to enter your username, followed by the password after a form or page refresh, you’ll likely have to click again to autofill the password separately. 1Password is better at injecting the password into the second field that appears without requiring manual intervention.
One last thing. If you need to create a new account, iCloud Passwords almost always notices and offers to save your credentials. What it doesn’t do, unfortunately, is create a secure password for you. Instead, it suggests creating a strong password in System Settings > Passwords or opening the page in Safari (below left, ignore the broken graphic icon). Indeed, Safari automatically generates strong passwords and saves them to your password collection when you click Use Strong Password (below right). So, the better part of valor is to switch to Safari when creating new accounts and then switch back to log in with the new credentials. If you instead use System Settings > Passwords , you’ll have to click the + menu, choose New Password, click the Create Strong Password button, copy the password, switch back to your browser, and paste the password.
Limitations Compared to Other Password Managers
I’ve mentioned a few ways that iCloud Passwords fails to match up to the likes of 1Password, but let’s collect all of them here so you get a sense of the difference. iCloud Passwords:
- Generates many more verification requests.
- Doesn’t support biometric authentication, so those verification requests can be answered only by typing in a six-digit code. (Although the code may be easier than typing in a master password.)
- Isn’t quite as capable of autofilling login fields separated by a form or page refresh.
- Sometimes fails to offer to save a manual login.
Supports only logins, unlike other password managers, which can store many other types of private information, such as identity cards, medical record cards, bank accounts, API credentials, secure notes, and even documents.
- Can’t autofill credit card or address information.
You can work around this last limitation using browser features. Chromium browsers can all autofill payment methods and addresses, but by default, iCloud Passwords blocks those features from working, even though it won’t help you in that department. If you circumvent the iCloud Passwords block on browser autofill, you can get the best of both worlds. Follow these steps:
- In your Chromium browser, navigate to the Extensions page, usually by choosing Window > Extensions . In Arc, it’s Extensions > Manage Extensions .
Once you’ve done all that, you should be in a situation where iCloud Passwords autofills your login credentials, and your browser autofills credit card information and addresses. The browser-level interface looks a little different but works well—you simply click in a credit card or address field and then click the desired set of information from the pop-up.
Now that I’ve written this article, I fully admit that I’m going to disable iCloud Passwords and revert to 1Password because it’s easier to use and autofills more information. Plus, my nearly 1000 logins are stored in 1Password—I’ve been using 1Password’s Quick Access pop-up to find and enter credentials in Arc logins so iCloud Passwords could remember them. In the past month, I’ve migrated 73 logins to iCloud Passwords, and although those take care of most of my day-to-day logins, I never get through a week without having to bring more over from 1Password.
But it’s clear that with the addition of the iCloud Passwords extension for Chromium browsers and some judicious browser configuration for payment methods and addresses, it’s entirely possible to rely on Apple’s free password management tools.
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Comments About Using Apple’s iCloud Passwords Outside Safari
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Since I use Safari 99% of the time and have simple needs for a password manager, keychain works very well for me. I also don’t use any non-Apple platforms or Chromium browsers.
My objection to 1Password is based on two principles I try to adhere to: I really don’t like subscription apps and like even less electron based apps, which I consider to be poor Mac citizens. Even though I have 36 GB of RAM on my M3 Pro, it irks me to use a lazily created app which uses electron and, to add insult to injury, needs a subscription fee (even if it is not large).
So far, these principles have not inhibited me in any way in my choice of apps I run on my Mac.
Thank you for yet another thoughtful and informative article.
Don’t beat around the bush, tell me what you really think.
While I agree with you, I would emphasize that what makes “using + and ••• to label menus” a capital crime is to have no hint appear when one hovers over the cryptic symbol.
The Keychain app has for years supported secure notes which offers a safe haven for that kind of information. However, it is true that it unfortunately does not sync to an iOS front-end even when users have iCloud Keychain turned on. So that makes it Mac-only which limits its usefulness I guess.
Of course Notes also offers secure notes and they can hold all kinds of information (including images, PDFs, etc.) and they sync very nicely across iCloud to other devices you have connected to your Apple ID.
For me the greatest limitation of Apple’s inbuilt password manager / keychain is that it is secured by your Mac password. This means that if you take your Mac in for repairs and the technician needs your computer password, they can access all your Keychain passwords as well. In many cases this can be prevented by setting up a separate administrator account, but most home users don’t know to do this and technicians rarely encourage it.
My customers with password managers have bigger issues with passwords than my customers just using keychain-password settings. I juse keychain because I would rather change a password than somehow “find” one and reuse. (this happens more often than expected) - How secure is Chrome/Firefox/etc password management ? You only know of security of these things in past tense. None of these managers resolve the bigger problem - when stuff is breached or a password is ‘uncoordinated’ - there is no AI crawler to remove breachs or faulted passwords. My wife’s online stock manager password system routinely locks you out forever if three attempts fail and then you have to contact a PERSON who then generates a new password request via snailmail. I have their system fail on my (with the correct password-so i imagine an acceptance glitch on their end creates this havoc) The availability of Password in a browser is inherently a security issue in itself. (small bias: don’t entirely feel anything from Alphabet is 'reliable" as to security - my old edict “The Google giveth - the Google taketh away” still stands.) I do trust Apple’s “values system” though.
I use to use 1 Password Application but switched to Enpass and have had no real problems with it on my Mac Studio running Sonoma. I have used it for over two years now and am wondering why you haven’t mentioned it yet? I also use it on my iPhone and Love the fact that is keeps everything updated on both my desk top computer and my iPhone. Is there some potential problem with this software that I am not aware of?
Respectfully yours Timothy Freitas
Thanks - this is a great introduction to something I didn’t realize was built into Ventura; I had been using Keychain and the Password Manager built into Firefox. Since I find it loaded with the contents of Keychain, I now have a nicer interface to work with. I wish it worked with Firefox.
I did find one thing I consider a problem. All the passwords I checked were listed as last modified 11/28/21, which presumably was the date the password file was created. That unfortunately wiped out the earlier dates when the passwords were created, so I have lost any indication of how old the passwords were created. I often find I need that to pick out passwords that are obsolete because the web site has been redesigned and no longer uses that page.
Purely because I have no experience with Enpass and it doesn’t come up in discussions here as a common choice for password managers. I’ve never heard anything particularly bad about it, though.
As you can see, there are a LOT of options.
Have you tried the iCloud Passwords add-on I mention briefly in the article?
Thanks for your input. BTW I have always respected TidBITS and trusted their reviews and advice.
Respectfully Yours Timothy Freitas
I’m still on Ventura, and you said the add-on required Sonora. The last I have heard, Mail still has problems in Sonora, and I don’t want to risk Mail problems.
Ah, sorry, missed that fact. I suspect the iCloud Passwords extension and add-on leverage some new API in Sonoma, but I don’t know for sure.
Hey Adam, Thanks for the article.
My opinion: Apple is providing too little (or too much), too late.
Like you, I am perfectly happy with my 1Password app. Also, while you mention the Apple iClouds Passwords is “free”, this means no financial purchase is necessary. But the feature is not free, in terms of the effort of moving one’s entire set of passwords over to the Apple feature, which apparently would include a learning curve, as well.
Wishing you clear skies on 08 Apr 2024.
I stopped using Apples password manager and went to a app called StrongPassword.app. Strong Password . It has what I need, but eventually passcodes with take over as they have on Gmail
Hey Adam – In the Password Options paragraph, you wrote: “… I’m intrigued by the “Use passwords and passkeys from” section. iCloud Keychain is the only option here … Perhaps Apple will open up macOS to others in the future.”
Well Sonoma actually does have this:
I use Strongbox (by Phoebe Code Ltd.) on my Mac, iPad, and iPhone. The option shown in the screenshot allows me to use Strongbox to autofill on Safari. Plus Strongbox has extensions for Chrome and Firefox.
I believe you still have to have iCloud Keychain enabled as well (and Apple makes it a little clunky when adding new entries from a website). But the overall UX with Strongbox is quite nice.
Yup, essentially going to say this. Strongbox already has an extension, but it’s nice to have options. I don’t like Apple’s extension very much because it’s invasive (turns off Chrome’s autofill until you configure it otherwise, constant prompt for the verification code from the system) but otherwise it’s serviceable enough. Naturally the Safari experience is a great deal more luscious.
Interesting! I wonder what other password managers do this—1Password does not. Perhaps it’s a way that apps that haven’t already put effort into autofill can take advantage of Apple’s built-in code.
I think I’ve tried out several that supported it. I know KeePassium does because I just checked for other apps showing up there on my computer.
For those of you who are using Apple’s password manager and are looking for an easier way to access the password database without digging through Settings, here is a link to a video that shows how to make a password app using Shortcuts and put it right in your Dock. Password app for iPhone and Mac
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A 79-year-old American woman was killed in Zambia after an elephant charged at a vehicle carrying tourists in Kafue National Park .
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Another woman was injured and was taken to a medical facility in South Africa following the incident, which took place on Saturday, the conservation and hospitality company Wilderness, which was running the trip, said in a statement published Tuesday.
Four other people also suffered minor injuries.
Wilderness Chief Executive Officer Keith Vincent said the vehicle, which was carrying six guests and a guide, was “unexpectedly charged” by a bull elephant during the excursion to view wildlife, known as a game drive.
"Our guides are all extremely well trained and experienced, but sadly in this instance the terrain and vegetation was such that the guide’s route became blocked and he could not move the vehicle out of harm’s way quickly enough," Vincent said.
"This is a tragic event, and we extend our deepest condolences to the family of the guest who died," he said.
"We are also, naturally, supporting those guests and the guide involved in this distressing incident," he added.
ABC News confirmed with family members that Gail Mattson, 79, was killed in the attack.
A helicopter was dispatched to the scene and authorities are investigating.
Zambia is popular with safari travelers thanks to a number of national parks and the quality of its guides.
Kafue is the country’s largest national park and is home to more than 200 animal species.
It is known for lion and leopard sightings as well as an incredible diversity of antelope species, many of which are rarely seen elsewhere.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A bull elephant charged a truck that an 80-year-old American was riding in with other tourists on a game drive in a Zambian national park, flipping over the vehicle and killing her, a safari company said.
The attack injured five others on March 30 in the vast Kafue National Park , which covers 22,400 square kilometers (8,600 square miles) and is one of Africa’s largest animal reserves.
According to the safari company Wilderness, the “aggressive” bull elephant unexpectedly charged at the truck, which was carrying six guests and a guide on a morning excursion through wild areas.
It wasn’t clear what upset the bull. But in a video widely circulated online, the pachyderm is seen menacingly charging through the bushy terrain toward the tourists’ vehicle. A man is heard shouting “hey hey hey,” in apparent but futile efforts to scare it away. It reaches the truck and flips it over using its trunk.
Another female tourist was seriously injured and flown by helicopter to South Africa for treatment while the rest were treated for minor injuries, the company said.
“This is a devastating incident for everyone involved and we are doing our best to support the family and all affected,” Tarryn Gibson, the safari company’s head of communications told The Associated Press on Thursday. Gibson did not identify the tourist who was killed, and said her family wished for privacy. The company also asked people to not share the video of the attack online.
While many wildlife parks in southern Africa teem with dangerous animals like elephants and lions, such incidents are rare, although they sometimes do occur with fatal consequences due to the unpredictability of wild animals.
Keith Vincent, chief executive officer of the safari company, said rough terrain minimized chances of an escape.
“Our guides are all extremely well trained and experienced, but sadly in this instance the terrain and vegetation was such that the guide’s route became blocked and he could not move the vehicle out of harm’s way quickly enough” he said.
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