1. Touch the Safari icon on your iPad to launch the browser. It might be located at the bottom of the screen, along with your other most commonly used applications.
2. Tap in the address field at the top of the screen. This opens up the keyboard at the bottom of the screen. If you were already viewing a web page, the address of that page remains in the address field. Otherwise, it will be blank.
   

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   Clear the Slate
   To clear the field at any time, tap the × button located inside the field all the way to the right.

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3. Start typing a URL such as apple.com or macmost.com.
4. As you type, suggestions based on previous pages you have visited appear. To go directly to one of these pages, tap the page’s address in the list.
5. Tap the Go button on the keyboard when you finish typing.

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TIPS FOR TYPING A URL

• A URL is a Universal Resource Locator. It can be a website name or a specific page in a website.

• For most websites, you don’t need to type the “www.” at the beginning. For instance, you can type www.apple.com or apple.com and both take you to Apple’s home page. You never need to type “http://” either, though occasionally you need to type “https://” to specify that you want to go to a secure web page.

• Instead of typing “.com.” you can tap the .com button on the iPad keyboard. If you tap and hold the .com button, you can select .edu, .org, or .net as well.

1. Open Safari and tap in the search field at the upper-right portion. It expands, shrinking the address field to give it more room. The keyboard pops up at the bottom of the screen.
2. Start typing your search term.
3. As you type, a pop-up list appears with suggestions. You can stop typing at any time and tap one of these suggestions to select it and start the search.
4. Tap the × button to the right of the search field at any time to clear the field. If you previously searched for something, it might have appeared in the field when you started your search, and you can use the X button to clear that text.
5. Tap the Search button on the keyboard to finish the text entry and start the search.
6. The results display in a typical Google search results page. Tap any link to go to a page, or use the links at the bottom of the screen to view more results.

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TIPS FOR SEARCHING THE WEB

You can go deeper than just typing some words. For instance, you can put a + in front of a word to require it, and a – in front to avoid that word in the results.

You can use special search terms to look for things such as movie times, weather, flight tracking, and more. See http://www.google.com/landing/searchtips/ for all sorts of things you can do with a Google search.

Using iPad’s Settings app, you can choose the search engine that Safari uses as its default. Tap the Settings icon and choose Safari on the left, and then look for the Search Engine setting. You can choose Yahoo instead of Google, for instance.

Using Google, you can search for much more than text on web pages. Look at the top of the search results, and you see links such as Images, Videos, Maps, News, and Shopping. Tap “more” and you can also search for things such as Blogs and Books.

To explore the search results without moving away from the page listing the results, tap and hold over a link to see a button that enables you to open a link in a new page, leaving the results open in the current page.

You can use many search settings with Google. These are not specific to the iPad but work on your computer as well when performing searches. Tap the Search Settings link in the upper-right corner of the search results page to choose a language, filters, and other settings. Set up a Google account (same as a gmail account) and log in to save these search preferences and use them between different devices.

1. Navigate to any web page using either of the two techniques in the previous step-by-step instructions.
2. When you are viewing a page, you can touch and drag the page up and down with your finger. As you do so, notice the bar on the right side that gives you an indication of how much of the complete Web page you are viewing at one time.
   

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   If you release your finger from the iPad screen to stop scrolling while dragging, the screen will continue to scroll with a decelerating affect and then come to a stop quickly.

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3. To zoom in on an area in the page, touch the screen with two fingers and move your fingers apart. This is called an unpinch. You can also move them closer together (pinch) to zoom back out. A double-tap restores the page to normal scaling.
4. You can also double-tap images and paragraphs of text to zoom in to those elements in the web page. A second double-tap zooms back out.
5. While zoomed in, you can also touch and drag left and right to view different parts of the web page. You see a bar at the bottom of the screen when you do this, just like the bar on the right side in step 2.
6. To move to another web page from a link in the current web page, just tap the link. Links are usually an underlined or colored piece of text; however, they can also be pictures or button-like images.

WHERE’S THE LINK?

Unfortunately it isn’t always easy to figure out which words on a page are links. Years ago, these were all blue and underlined. But today links can be any color and may not be underlined.

On the iPad it is even more difficult to figure out which words are links. This is because many web pages highlight links when the cursor moves over the word. But with the touch interface of the iPad, there is no cursor.

1. After using Safari to view several pages, tap the History button at the top of the screen.
2. A list of pages that you visited today appears. If this list is long, you can tap and drag up and down to scroll through the results.
3. Tap any item in the list to jump to that web page.
4. If you visited a site on multiple days, the days appear under the site in the list. Tap a date to dig down into the history for that date.
5. When you are into the history for a specific date, you can tap and drag to scroll up and down on longer lists, or tap an item to jump to that page.
6. You can move back up from a specific date to the main History menu by tapping the History button at the top-left part of the History pop-up menu.

History/Bookmarks

Safari treats both History and Bookmarks the same. They are both just lists of web pages. Think of your history as a bookmark list of every site you have visited recently.

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TIPS FOR USING HISTORY

• You can clear your history at any time by tapping the Clear History button at the top of the History pop-up menu.

• You can close the History pop-up menu by tapping the History button again, or tapping anywhere else on the screen away from the History pop-up menu.

• If you have many items in your history for today, you get an Earlier Today item listed just above previous date items. Tap this to view all the web pages you visited today.

• If you tap the Bookmarks button at the top of the History pop-up menu, you can go up a level and see both Bookmarks and a menu item to take you back to your history.

1. Navigate to any page using Safari.
2. Tap the Add Bookmark button at the top of the screen.
3. Choose Add Bookmark.
4. Edit the title of the bookmark. The official title of the web page is prefilled, but you can use the keyboard to change it. You can tap the × to clear the text and start fresh.
5. Tap the Bookmarks folder name to select a folder to place the bookmark.

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TIPS FOR BOOKMARKING WEBSITES

• You can save bookmarks to a folder called the Bookmarks Bar. These appear as buttons at the top of your browser. Only save the most important bookmarks to the Bookmarks Bar folder. These always show up at the top of your Safari screen.

• The titles of web pages are often long and descriptive. It is a good idea to shorten the title to something you can easily recognize, especially if it is a web page that you plan to visit often.

• You can create folders of bookmarks in your Bookmarks Bar folder. These appear as their own pop-up menu when you tap them, giving you direct access to a subset of your bookmarks.

Delete a Single Bookmark

The first method uses the Bookmarks list to locate and delete a single bookmark.

1. Tap the Bookmarks button at the top of the Safari screen. This brings up a list of bookmarks.
2. Swipe across a bookmark, from left to right, with your finger. This brings up a red Delete button.
3. Tap the Delete button to remove the bookmark. The bookmark is instantly deleted.

Another Way to Delete Bookmarks

This method for deleting bookmarks lets you unlock and delete bookmarks from the Bookmarks list.

1. Tap the Bookmarks button at the top of the Safari screen. This brings up a list of bookmarks.
2. Tap the Edit button at the upper-right corner. (It becomes the Done button.) Now each bookmark has a red circle with a line through it to its left.
3. Tap one of the red circles to unlock it. A Delete button appears to the right.
4. Tap the Delete button to remove the bookmark.

1. Navigate to the web page using Safari.
2. Tap the + button at the top of the screen.
3. Choose Add to Home Screen.
4. You can now edit the name of the page. Most web page titles are too long to display under an icon on the Home screen of the iPad, so edit the name down to as short a title as possible.
5. You can tap Cancel to leave this interface without sending the bookmark to the Home screen.
6. Tap Add to complete adding the icon to the Home screen.

Website Icons

The icon for this type of bookmark can come from one of two sources. Web page owners can provide a special iPhone/iPad icon that would be used whenever someone tries to bookmark her page.

However, if no such icon has been provided, your iPad can take a screen shot of the web page and shrink it down to make an icon.

1. Navigate to a page with a form using Safari. For demonstration purposes, try one of the pages at http://apple.com/feedback/.
2. To type in a text field, tap that field.
3. The keyboard appears at the bottom of the screen. Use it to type text into the field.
4. Tap the Go button when you finish.
5. To select a check box or radio button, just tap it as you would click on it on your computer using the mouse.
6. To select an item in a pull-down menu, tap the menu.
7. The special iPad pull-down menu reacts like any other iPad interface. You can tap an item to select it. You can touch and drag up and down to view more selections if the list is long.
8. A check mark appears next to the currently selected item. Tap that item or any other one to select it and dismiss the menu.

Special Menus

Some websites may use special menus that they build from scratch, rather than these default HTML menus. When this is the case, you get a menu that looks exactly like the one you get when viewing the web page on a computer. If the web page is well coded, it should work fine on the iPad, though it might be slightly more difficult to make a selection.

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TIPS FOR FILLING IN FORMS

• You can use the AutoFill button just above the keyboard to fill in your name, address, and other contact info instead of typing on the keyboard. To enable AutoFill, go into your iPad Settings and look for the AutoFill preferences under Safari. Also, make sure your own information is correct and complete in your card in the Contacts application.

• To move between fields in a form, use the Previous and Next buttons just above the keyboard. You can quickly fill in an entire form this way without having to tap on the web page to select the next item.

1. While browsing the Web using Safari on the iPad, tap the Page button at the top of the screen.
2. You see your current page shrink to fill only one-ninth the size of the screen.
3. You can return to the current page by tapping it.
4. You can create a new page by tapping on the blank rectangle next to the current page. This returns you to the full screen view of Safari. Whatever you view on this new page does not affect what is still on the first page. You can browse and search on this new page.
5. Tap the Page button again and you see both your first and second pages displayed.
6. Tap either the first page or the second page to go to it. You can also tap the New Page rectangle to add yet another page. You can have up to nine active Web pages in Safari on the iPad.

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TIPS FOR USING MULTIPLE WEB PAGES

• Another way to open up a second page is to tap and hold a link. Then you get a pop-up menu with the option to open the link in a new page.

• Using multiple pages is yet another way, besides bookmarks, to quickly access the same web page over and over again. Simply keep that page open when you finish viewing it and open a new page to browse elsewhere. Then tap the Page button to quickly return to the often-visited page.

1. Navigate to a web page in Safari.
2. Tap and hold over a piece of text. You don’t need to be exact because you can adjust the selection later. The word Copy appears above the selected area that is highlighted in light blue.
3. You can tap and drag one of the four blue dots to change the selection area. When your selection gets small enough, it changes to only two blue dots indicating the first and last character of the selection.
4. Tap outside the selection to cancel at any time.
5. Tap the Copy button over the selection to copy the text.
6. You can now go to another application such as Mail or Pages and tap in a text area to choose Paste and paste the text into the area. You can also do this in a form on a page in Safari, such as a web-based email form.

1. Go to a web page that has a standard image.
2. Tap and hold your finger on that image.
3. Select Save Image. This saves your image to your Saved Images folder in the Photos app. You can then use this image in any app where you select images from your photo albums.
4. Select Copy to copy the image to the Clipboard. You can then go to a program such as Mail or Pages and paste that image into the document you are composing.