Safari is Apple’s browser and is undoubtedly the most used in iOS and iPadOS devices in general, so much so that even Google is paying huge sums of money in exchange for its browser being the default in Safari , thus allowing everything to be calculated the traffic of Apple devices in general.
However, Safari goes far beyond simplicity, and that is that it has many features that you don’t know about and that you will regret not having known before. Discover with us these secrets and features of Safari that will leave no one indifferent… will you miss them?
As the Cupertino company recently announced, there are currently over 2 billion active iPhone users, and that’s a lot of users taking advantage of all Safari features.
Don’t like the search bar? Change it!
This will sound familiar to veterans of the iOS world in general, and that’s because it’sWith the arrival of iOS 15, Apple decided to put aside the historical location of the search bar, which has ceased to be above to be located just below. This has its explanation at the UI level, but we’re not going to deny that when you’re so used to a design, it’s hard for you to see it with different eyes.
But rest assured, Apple has thought of everything, even its most loyal and change-averse users. That’s why we’ve added the ability to easily return Safari’s search bar to its traditional location: Settings > Safari > Tabs and select the option “a tab” In this simple way, the search bar will return to the top of the screen.
Add any web page to home screen
The home screen (which we’ve already stopped calling Springboard) is the epicenter of our interaction with iOS, how could it be otherwise. While it’s true that despite the many investments Apple makes to make it easier to develop apps for iOS, many vendors just keep it simple. “WebApps” They are nothing more than a replica of what one would find on the site.
In these cases, the ideal is to have a link to the web page we need, adding it to the home screen and thus allowing us to save storage space that few people have. To do this, simply go to the site you want to add, click on the “Share”and select the option “add to home screen”.
Many open tabs? Use the search engine
There are not a few users who have dozens of tabs open in the search engine and not closed, which makes it very difficult to find the tab we were looking for and, therefore, forces us to open more in addition to tabs. But don’t worry, because we have the solution.
If you open the tab switcher and navigate up, a gesture you can speed up by clicking on the “clock” to automatically go to the start, The tabs search box will appear, i.e. you can select the content quickly.
Automatically close tabs
Following along the thread of the above, for messy users who don’t keep Safari clean, Apple developers have come up with a solution. And it is that we have an auto-close tabs setting in Safari, which will allow us to choose whether we will close them manually, if they will automatically close after a day, week or month. This way, no matter how much we leave tabs open, we will always maintain a minimum order in Safari.
To do this, simply go to Settings > Safari > Tabs > Close Tabs. Inside you will have the mentioned switcher and you can say goodbye to that terrible tangle of tabs that you left behind in Safari…
Customize Safari homepage
Safari’s home page, if you haven’t customized it first, can become a mess of useless information. I hope you are not one of these users, but since at Actualidad iPhone we do not make distinctions, we also have some advice for you.
If you open a new tab with no content in Safari, you can click the button “Edit”, which appears in the center and bottom of the screen. You can therefore access a multitude of options such as:
- show favorites
- Show Siri Suggestions
- View content shared with you
- Show frequently visited sites
- View Privacy Report
- view playlist
- Show iCloud Tabs
- Change background image
- Use the same homepage on all devices
My advice is to turn off all options except for “show favorites”, and change the Safari background to a background that suits your tastes and needs.
Options on open tabs
If you go to the tab switcher and one or more of them are open, you can long press on it, and an option selector will open. Once this pop-up is invoked, we will have access to a series of features that will be extremely useful:
- Pin tab
- Switch to a group of tabs
- organize tabs
- close tab
- Close all tabs
In this way, we will be able to manage the enormous amount of content that appears in Safari much more easily.
Set play mode automatically
There are many websites, such as Actualidad iPhone, that allow us to start a reading mode that will make it easier to access the content displayed. You know, for this we just have to click on the “A” icon that appears next to the Safari search bar.
What you might not know is that you can configure a specific website to always show us the same in read mode automatically. To do this, do a long press on the “A” icon, choose the option “site settings” and quickly personalize your experience.
And those are the tips we brought to you today so you can get the most out of Safari on your iPhone or iPad, if you have more and want to share them with the community, leave them in the box of comment.
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