12. Surfing the Web

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The Web has become an integral part of most of our lives. It is often the first step to search for information, make plans (such as travel arrangements), conduct financial transactions, shop, and so much more. Safari on the iPhone puts the entire Web in the palm of your hand. Safari is a full-featured web browser; anything you can do on a website in a browser on a computer can be done with Safari on your iPhone.

Getting Started

The World Wide Web, more commonly called the Web, is a great resource for finding information, planning travel, keeping up with the news, and just about anything else you want to do. Following are some of the more common terms you encounter as you use the Web:

  • Web page—This is a collection of information (text and graphics) that is available on the Web. A web page is what you look at when you use the Web.

  • Website—This is a collection of web pages that “go together.” For example, most companies and other organizations have websites that contain information they use to help their customers or members, provide services, market and sell their products and services, and so on. A website organizes the web pages it contains and provides the structure you use to move among them.

  • Web browser—This is the software you use to view web pages. There are many different web browsers available. Examples include Safari—which comes preinstalled on your iPhone—as well as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Firefox. They all allow you to view and interact with web pages, and each has its own set of features. Some are available on just about every device there is, such as Safari and Google Chrome, while some are limited to certain devices, such as Internet Explorer that only runs on Windows computers.

  • Safari—This is the default web browser on your iPhone; it is also the default web browser on Mac computers. You can download and install it on Windows computers, too.

  • URL—A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a web page’s or website’s “address” on the Web. URLs allow you to direct your web browser to specific locations on the Web. Most URLs you deal with consist of text, such as www.apple.com or www.aarp.org. Some URLs are more complicated because they take you to specific web pages instead of a website. An example of this is www.aarp.org/health, which takes you to the Health web page on the AARP website. You seldom have to type URLs because you usually access web pages by tapping on links or using a bookmark, but it’s good to know what they are and how to use them.

  • Link—A link is a photo or other graphic, text, or other object that has a URL attached to it. When you tap a link, you move to the URL and open the web page associated with it. Most text links are formatted with a color so you can distinguish them from regular text. Links can also be attached to images, such as photos or other kinds of graphics.

  • Bookmark—This is a saved location on the Web. When you visit a web page or website, you can save its URL as a bookmark so you can return to it with just a few taps instead of typing its URL. Safari allows you to save and organize your bookmarks on your iPhone.

  • Search engine or search page—The Web contains information on every topic under the sun. You can use a search engine/page to search for information in which you are interested. There are a number of search engines available, with Google being the most popular. You access a search engine through a web browser. Safari uses Google by default, but you can choose Bing, DuckDuckGo, or Yahoo! as your default search engine if you prefer one of those instead.

Setting Safari Preferences

Like most apps, Safari offers settings you can use to adjust the way it works. You can likely use Safari with its default settings just fine; when the time comes that you want to tweak how Safari works for you, use the following table as a reference for the available settings. To access these settings, tap the Settings icon on the Home screen, and then tap Safari.

Safari Settings

Settings Area Location Setting Description
ALLOW SAFARI TO ACCESS Siri & Search Siri & Search Suggestions Set this switch to on (green) to allow information from Safari to be used in searches, when you perform lookups, and in other places. It also allows Siri to learn from how you use Safari to make better suggestions over time. If you don’t want Safari information to be used in this way, set the switch to off (white).
SEARCH Search Engine Search Engine Enables you to choose your default search tool; the options are Google (default), Yahoo, Bing, or DuckDuckGo.
SEARCH N/A Search Engine Suggestions When this switch is on (green), Safari asks your default search engine for suggestions related to what you type in the Address/Search bar. This makes search easier because you can type your search term in the bar instead of first moving to the search web page.
SEARCH N/A Safari Suggestions When this switch is on (green), Safari makes suggestions related to what you type in the Address/Search bar. This makes search easier because you can type a term in which you are interested in the bar instead of first moving to the search web page.
SEARCH Quick Website Search Quick Website Search When this switch is on (green), you can perform a search at a specific website by typing its name before your search term. For example, you can type “wiki william wallace” in the Address/Search bar and the first section of the results will be entries in the Wikipedia related to William Wallace; this saves you the steps of moving to the search engine results, and then tapping the articles you want to read because you can do this directly from the Search screen instead.
SEARCH N/A Preload Top Hit When this switch is on (green), the sites you move to or find more frequently are loaded while you search, making accessing them faster.
GENERAL Autofill N/A These settings enable you to automatically log in to websites and to quickly complete forms on the Web by automatically filling in key information for you. Set the Use Contact Info switch to on (green), tap My Info, and tap your contact information in the Contacts app. When you use the Auto-Fill function, this is the information that is entered for you.
GENERAL Autofill N/A You can determine what data is saved on your iPhone by setting the following switches on (green) or off (white): Names and Passwords or Credit Cards. If you want to be able to automatically sign into websites, the Names and Passwords switch must be on. The Credit Cards switch enables you to store credit cards on your iPhone so you can more easily enter their information to make purchases.
GENERAL Autofill Autofill Tap Saved Credit Cards to view or change existing credit card information or to add new credit cards to Safari.
GENERAL N/A Frequently Visited Sites When this switch is on (green) and you move into the Address/Search bar, Safari shows a section of sites that you visit frequently, making them easier to return to.
GENERAL Favorites Favorites Use this option to choose the folder of bookmarks for sites that you use most frequently. The bookmarks in the folder you select appear at the top of the screen when you move into the Address/Search bar, making them fast and easy to use.
GENERAL Open Links Open Links This tells Safari the option you want to see when you touch and hold a link on a current web page to open a new web page. The In New Tab option causes Safari to open and immediately take you to a new tab displaying the web page with which a link is associated. The In Background option causes Safari to open pages in the background for links you tap so you can view them later.
GENERAL N/A Block Pop-ups Some websites won’t work properly with pop-ups blocked, so you can use this setting to temporarily enable pop-ups by sliding the switch to off (white). When the Block Pop-ups switch is on (green), pop-ups are blocked.
PRIVACY & SECURITY N/A Prevent Cross-Site Tracking When enabled (green), this feature attempts to limit tracking of your browsing history by websites that you visit. Its purpose is to limit the exposure of your private information by websites that try to track you as you visit other sites to collect information about you.
PRIVACY & SECURITY N/A Block All Cookies When enabled (green), Safari doesn’t allow cookies to be stored; cookies are bits of information that websites store about you to use to tailor your experience at that website. If you block all cookies, some sites might not work correctly. Safari only accepts cookies for websites you visit, so, in general, you should leave this feature disabled (white) so websites you visit work correctly.
PRIVACY & SECURITY N/A Ask Websites Not To Track Me Some websites track your activity in order to tailor the site based on your browsing history. When enabled (green), Safari includes a request not to track you to each website you visit. If the website honors that request, you won’t be tracked. However, it’s up to each website to implement this.
PRIVACY & SECURITY N/A Fraudulent Website Warning If you don’t want Safari to warn you when you visit websites that appear to be fraudulent, set the Fraudulent Website Warning switch to off (white). You should leave this switch enabled (green).
PRIVACY & SECURITY N/A Camera & Microphone Access When this switch is on (green) Safari can access the iPhone’s microphone and camera to enable you to present video and transmit and receive audio communication via a website.
PRIVACY & SECURITY N/A Check for Apple Pay When you visit websites that support Apple Pay with this switch enabled (green), you can use your Apple Pay account to make payments for goods or services. (Refer to the online Chapter 15, “Working with Other Useful iPhone Apps and Features,” for information about Apple Pay.)
PRIVACY & SECURITY N/A Clear History and Website Data When you tap this command and confirm it by tapping Clear History and Data at the prompt, Safari removes the websites you have visited from your history list. The list starts over, so the next site you visit is added to your history list again—unless you have enabled private browsing. It also removes all cookies and other website data that have been stored on your iPhone.
READING LIST N/A Automatically Save Offline The Reading List enables you to store web pages on your iPhone for offline reading. If you want to allow pages to be saved to your iPhone automatically, slide this switch to the on (green) position.
Advanced Website Data Website Data Website Data displays the amount of data associated with websites you have visited; swipe up on the screen and tap Remove All Website Data to clear this data.
Advanced N/A JavaScript Set this switch to off (white) to disable JavaScript functionality (however, some sites won’t work properly without JavaScript).
Advanced N/A Web Inspector This switch controls a feature that is used by website developers to see how their sites work on an iPhone.

Where, Oh Where Are My Passwords?

When you enable Safari to save your names and passwords, they are stored under the App & Website Passwords settings, which you can access by tapping Accounts & Passwords on the main Settings screen. When you tap App & Website Passwords, you see a list of the usernames and passwords stored on your iPhone sorted by the URL of the website with which they are associated. You can tap a URL to see the username and password for that site and a list of all websites using that information. To remove a URL and its associated username and password from the list, swipe to the left on it and tap Delete. The next time you move to that site, you will need to manually enter your username and password again.


Visiting Websites

If you’ve used a web browser on a computer before, using Safari on an iPhone is a familiar experience. If you’ve not used a web browser before, don’t worry because using Safari on an iPhone is simple and intuitive.


Syncing Bookmarks

Using iCloud, you can synchronize your Internet Explorer favorites or Safari bookmarks on a Windows PC—or Safari bookmarks on a Mac—to your iPhone so you have the same set of bookmarks available on your phone that you do on your computer and other devices, and vice versa (refer to Chapter 3, “Setting Up and Using an Apple ID, iCloud, and Other Online Accounts”). You should enable iCloud’s Safari switch before you start browsing on your iPhone, so you avoid typing URLs or re-creating bookmarks. When you enable Safari syncing via iCloud, you can also view tabs open in Safari on other devices, such as a Mac or an iPad.


Using Bookmarks to Move to Websites

Using bookmarks you’ve synced via iCloud or created on your iPhone (you learn how later in this chapter) makes it easy to get to websites.

Image On the Home screen, tap Safari.

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Image Tap the Bookmarks icon.

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Image Tap the Bookmarks tab (the open book) if it isn’t selected already. (If you don’t see this tab, tap the Back icon, which is labeled with the name of the folder from which you moved to the current screen, in the upper-left corner of the screen until you do.)

Image Swipe up or down the list of bookmarks to browse the bookmarks and other folders of bookmarks available to you.

Image To move to a bookmark, skip to step 10; to open a folder of bookmarks, tap it.

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Back to the Bookmarks

The most recent Bookmarks screen is retained when you move away from Bookmarks and then come back. Each time you open your Bookmarks, you see the same screen you did when you left it.


Image Swipe up or down the folder’s screen to browse the folders and bookmarks it contains.

Image Tap a folder to see the bookmarks it contains.


Change Your Mind?

If you decide not to visit a bookmark, tap Done. You return to the website you were previously viewing.


Image To return to a previous screen, tap the Back icon in the upper-left corner of the screen, which is labeled with the name of the folder you previously visited (the parent folder); this disappears when you are at the top-level Bookmarks screen.

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Image Repeat steps 5−8 until you see a bookmark you want to visit.

Image Tap the bookmark you want to visit. Safari moves to that website.

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Image Use the information in the section “Viewing Websites” later in this chapter to get information on viewing the web page.

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Playing Favorites

You might see two Favorites folders on the Bookmarks screen. The folder marked with a star is the folder you designated, using the Safari settings described previously in this chapter, as the place to store Favorites on your iPhone. If you use Safari on a computer, you can also configure bookmarks and folders of bookmarks on its Bookmarks bar. When these bookmarks are synced from your computer to the iPhone, they might be stored in a folder of bookmarks also called Favorites and shown with the standard folder icon. If you set this synced folder in your iPhone’s Safari settings to also be its Favorites folder, you won’t have to deal with this potentially confusing situation of having two Favorites folders.



iPhone Web Pages

Some websites have been specially formatted for mobile devices. These typically have less complex information on each page, so they load faster. When you move to a site like this, you might be redirected to the mobile version automatically, or you might be prompted to choose which version of the site you want to visit. On the mobile version, there is typically a link that takes you to the “regular” version, too. (It’s sometimes called the Desktop, Full, or Classic version.) Sometimes the version formatted for handheld devices offers less information or fewer tools than the regular version. Because Safari is a full-featured browser, you can use either version.


Using Your Favorites to Move to Websites

Using the Safari settings described earlier, you can designate a folder of bookmarks as your Favorites. You can get to the folders and bookmarks in your Favorites folder more quickly and easily than navigating to it as described in the previous section. Here’s how to use your Favorites:

Image On the Home screen, tap Safari. (If you are in Safari and have the Bookmarks screen open, tap Done to close it.)

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Image Tap in the Address/Search bar (if you don’t see the Address/Search bar, tap at the top of the screen to show it). Just below the Address/Search bar are your Favorites (bookmarks and folders of bookmarks). The keyboard opens at the bottom of the screen.

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Image Swipe up and down on your Favorites. The keyboard closes to give you more room to browse.

Image To move to a bookmark, tap it and skip to step 8.

Image Tap a folder to move into it.

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More Commands

At the top of the Favorites screen, you might see two more commands. Tap Add to Favorites to add a bookmark to the current site to your Favorites folder. Tap Request Desktop Site if you are currently viewing the mobile version of a site and want to see the “full” version; you move to that version after you tap the command.


Image Continue browsing your Favorites until you find the bookmark you want to use. Like using the Bookmarks screen, you can tap a folder to move into it, tap a bookmark to move to its website, or tap the Back icon to move to a previous screen.

Image Tap the bookmark for the site you want to visit.

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Image Use the information in the section “Viewing Websites” later in this chapter to view the web page.

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Typing URLs to Move to Websites

A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is the Internet address of a web page. URLs can be relatively simple, such as www.apple.com, or they can be quite long and convoluted. The good news is that by using bookmarks, you can save a URL in Safari so you can get back to it using its bookmark (as you learned in the previous two tasks) and thus avoid typing URLs more than once. To use a URL to move to a website, do the following:

Image On the Home screen, tap Safari. (If you are in Safari and have the Bookmarks screen open, tap Done to close it.)

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Image Tap in the Address/Search bar (if you don’t see the Address/Search bar, tap at the top of the screen). The URL of the current page becomes highlighted, or if you haven’t visited a page, the Address/Search bar is empty. Just below the Address/Search bar, your Favorites are displayed. The keyboard appears at the bottom of the screen.

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Image If an address appears in the Address/Search bar, tap the Clear (x) icon to remove it.

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Image Type the URL you want to visit. If it starts with www. (which almost all URLs do), you don’t have to type “www.” As you type, Safari attempts to match what you are typing to a site you have visited previously and completes the URL for you if it can. Just below the Address/Search bar, Safari presents a list of sites that might be what you are looking for, organized into groups, such as Top Hits or Suggested Websites.

Image If one of the sites shown is the one you want to visit, tap it. You move to that web page; skip to step 8.

Image If Safari doesn’t find a match, continue typing until you enter the entire URL.

Image Tap Go. You move to the web page.

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Image Use the information in the section “Viewing Websites” to view the web page.

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Shortcut for Typing URLs

URLs include a top-level domain code that represents the type of site (theoretically anyway) that URL leads to. Common examples are .com (commercial sites) and .edu (educational sites). If you don’t enter a code, Safari assumes .com since that is the most common one. To quickly enter a URL’s code, tap and hold the period key to see a menu from which you can select other options, such as .net or .edu. Select the code you want on the keyboard, and it is entered in the Address/Search bar.


Using Your Browsing History to Move to Websites

As you move about the Web, Safari tracks the sites you visit and builds a history list (unless you enabled the Do Not Track option, in which case this doesn’t happen and you can’t use History to return to previous sites). You can use your browsing history list to return to sites you’ve visited.

Image Tap the Bookmarks icon.

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Image Tap the History tab.

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Image Swipe up and down the page to browse all the sites you’ve visited. The more recent sites appear at the top of the screen; the further you move down the screen, the further back in time you go. Earlier sites are collected in folders for various times, such as This Morning or Monday Afternoon.

Image Tap the site you want to visit. The site opens and you can use the information in the section “Viewing Websites” to view the web page.

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Erasing the Past

To clear your browsing history, tap Clear at the bottom of the History screen. At the prompt, tap the timeframe that you want to clear; the options are The last hour, Today, Today and yesterday, or All time. Your browsing history for the period of time you selected is erased. (Don’t you wish it was this easy to erase the past in real life?)


Viewing Websites

Even though your iPhone is a small device, you’ll be amazed at how well it displays web pages designed for larger screens.

Image Use Safari to move to a web page as described in the previous tasks.

Image To browse around a web page, swipe your finger right or left, or up or down.

Image Zoom in manually by unpinching your fingers.

Image Zoom in automatically by tapping twice on the screen.

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Where Did the URL Go?

When you first move to a URL, you see that URL in the Address/Search bar. After you work with a site, the Address/Search bar and the toolbar are hidden and the URL is replaced with the high-level domain name for the site (such as sitename.com, sitename.edu, and so on). To see the Address/Search bar and toolbar again, tap the top or bottom of the screen. To see the full URL again, tap in the Address/Search bar.


Image Zoom out manually by pinching your fingers.

Image Zoom out on a column or a figure by tapping it twice.

Image Tap a link to move to the location to which it points. Links can come in many forms, including text (most text that is a link is in color and underlined) or graphics. The web page to which the link points opens and replaces the page currently being displayed.

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Image To view the web page in landscape orientation, rotate the iPhone so that it is horizontal.

Image Scroll, zoom in, and zoom out on the page to read it, as described in steps 2−7.

Image Tap Refresh to refresh a page, which causes its content to be updated. (Note: While a page is loading, this is the Stop [x] icon; tap it to stop the rest of the page from loading.)

Image To move to a previous page you’ve visited, tap the Back icon (left-facing arrow). (If the arrow is grayed out, it means you are at the beginning of the set of pages you have visited.)

Image To move to a subsequent page, tap the Forward icon (right-facing arrow). (If the arrow is grayed out, it means you are at the end of the set of pages you have visited.)

Image As you move around, the Address/Search bar at the top of the page and the toolbar at the bottom of the page are hidden automatically; to show them again, tap the top or bottom of the screen (on the iPhone 6/6s Plus or later models, tap the top of the screen when the phone is horizontal).

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Do More with Links

To see options for a link, touch and hold your finger down for a second or so. (If you are using an iPhone that supports 3D Touch, this can be a bit tricky. If you apply pressure, a Peek appears instead of the menu. To see the menu, place your finger on the screen and hold it there, but don’t put any pressure on the screen.) A menu appears. Tap Open to open the page to replace the current page at which the link points (this is the same as tapping a link once). Tap Open in Background to open the page in a new Safari window that opens in the background, or tap Open in New Tab to open the new page in the new tab. (The command that appears depends on the Open Links Safari setting that you learned about earlier in this chapter.) Tap Add to Reading List to add the page to your Reading List. If the link is an image, tap Save Image to save the image on your phone. Tap Copy to copy the link’s URL so that you can paste it elsewhere, such as in an email message. Tap Share to open the Share menu that enables you to share the web page via email, a message, and so on. Tap Cancel to return to the current page and take no action.



Different Phones, Different Look

The type of iPhone you are using to browse the Web affects how pages look and where controls are located. For example, when you use an iPhone 5s, you see black at the top and bottom of the screen whereas you see white there on an iPhone 7. Also, when you rotate an iPhone 5s, the tools are at the top and bottom of the screen, but on an iPhone 7, the controls are all at the top of the screen. Regardless of where the controls appear on the screen, they work in the same way.


Working with Multiple Websites at the Same Time

When you move to a web page by using a bookmark, typing a URL, or tapping a link on the current web page, the new web page replaces the current one. However, you can also open and work with multiple web pages at the same time so that a new web page doesn’t replace the current one.

When you work with multiple web pages, each open page appears in its own tab. You can use the tab view to easily move to and manage your open web pages.

You can also close open tabs, and you can even open web pages that are open on other devices on which your iCloud account has been configured and Safari syncing enabled.

There are two ways to open a new web page in a new tab. One is to touch and hold on a link on the current web page; you can use the resulting Open command to open the new page. There are two options for this approach; the one you use is determined by the Open Links preference set as described earlier in this chapter. The In Background option causes the new page to open and move to the background. This is most useful when you want to read the new page at a later time, such as when you are done with the current one. The In New Tab option causes the new page to open and move to the front so you see it instantly while moving the current page and its tab to the background.

The second way to open a new web page in a new tab is by using the Tab Manager.

These options are described in the following tasks.


Tapping Without Holding

When you tap, but don’t hold down, a link on a web page, the web page to which the link points opens and replaces the current web page—no new tab is created. When you touch and hold down on a link, the behavior is determined by the setting you chose in the preferences as covered in a task earlier in this chapter (“Setting Safari Preferences”). To make things a bit more complicated, if your phone supports 3D Touch (iPhone 6s/6s Plus and later), don’t apply pressure to the screen when you tap; if you do, a Peek appears instead (you learn about this in “Using 3D Touch with Safari”).


Opening New Pages in the Background

If you enabled the In Background option for the Open Links preference, you can open new web pages by doing the following:

Image Touch and hold (but don’t press) on the link you want to open in the background.

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Image Tap Open in Background. The page to which the link points opens. The only result you see is the page associated with the link you touched “jumping” down to the Tab Manager icon in the lower-right corner of the screen.

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Image Continue opening pages in the background; see “Using Tab View to Manage Open Web Pages” to learn how to use the tab view to move to pages that are open in the background.

Opening New Pages in a New Tab

If you enabled the In New Tab option for the Open Links preference, you can open new pages by doing the following:

Image Touch and hold on the link you want to open in the background.

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Image Tap Open in New Tab. The tab view appears briefly, and a new tab opens and displays the page to which the link points. The web page from which you started moves into the background.

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Image Continue opening pages; see “Using Tab View to Manage Open Web Pages” to learn how to use the tab view to manage your open pages.


Just Open It

If you tap the Open command on the menu in step 2 of the previous tasks, the new web page replaces the one you were viewing on the current tab. This is the same as tapping a link on the page rather than touching and holding (but not pressing) on it.


Using Tab View to Manage Open Web Pages

As you open new pages, whether in the background or not, new tabs are opened. Safari’s tab view enables you to view and work with your open pages/tabs. Here’s how:

Image Tap the Tab View icon. Each open page appears on its own tab.

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Image Swipe up or down on the open tabs to browse them.

Image Tap a tab/page to move into it. The page opens and fills the Safari window.

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Image Work with the web page.

Image Tap the Tab View icon.

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Tabs Are Independent

Each tab is independent. So, when you are working with a tab and use the Back/Forward icons to move among its pages, you are just moving among the pages open under that tab. Pages open in other tabs are not affected.


Image Tap a Close (x) icon to close a tab; alternatively swipe to the left on the tab you want to close.

Image To open a new tab, tap the Add (+) icon to create a new tab that shows your Favorites screen; navigate to a new page in that tab using the methods described in other tasks (tapping bookmarks or typing a URL).

Image Tap Done to close the tab view. The tab view closes, and the page you were most recently viewing is shown.

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Opening Web Pages That Are Open on Other Devices

When you enable iCloud Safari syncing, iCloud tracks the websites you have open on all the devices on which you have Safari syncing enabled, including your iPhone, iPads, and Macs. This is really handy when you have pages open on another device and want to view them on your iPhone. (Web pages open on your iPhone are available on your other devices, too.) To view a page you have open on another device, do the following:

Image Open the tab view.

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Image Swipe up the screen until you see the pages open on other devices. There is a section for each device; sections are labeled with the device’s name. In each device’s section, you see the pages open in Safari on those devices.

Image Tap the page you want to view. The page opens on the iPhone and becomes a new tab.

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Keep Private Things Private

If you aren’t browsing in Private mode and tap the Private icon at the bottom of the tab view, Safari moves into Private mode and stops tracking the sites you visit. Tap the Private icon again to return to the previous state. If you are browsing in Private mode, tapping the Private icon shows or hides the tabs in the tab view.


Searching the Web

In the first section of this chapter, you learned that you can set Safari to search the Web using Google, Yahoo!, Bing, or DuckDuckGo. No matter which search engine you chose, you search the Web in the same way.

Image Tap in the Address/Search bar (if you don’t see this bar, tap at the top of the screen). The keyboard appears along with your Favorites.

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Image If there is any text in the Address/Search bar, tap the Clear (x) icon.

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Image Type your search word(s). As you type, Safari attempts to find a search that matches what you typed. The list of suggestions is organized in sections, which depend on what you are searching for and the search options you configured through Safari settings. One section, labeled with the search engine you are using (such as Google Search), contains the search results from that source. Other sections can include Bookmarks and History, or Apps (from the App Store). At the bottom of the list is the On This Page section, which shows the terms that match your search on the page you are browsing.

Image To perform the search using one of the suggestions provided, tap the suggestion you want to use. The search is performed and you can skip to step 6.

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Image If none of the suggestions are what you want, keep typing until you have entered the entire search term, and then tap Go. The search engine you use performs the search and displays the results on the search results page.

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Quick Website Search

If you enabled the Quick Website Search feature, you can include the site you want to search in the Address/Search bar, such as “Wiki F-15.” When you do this, the results from the site you entered appear at the top of the list and you can access them directly by tapping the information that appears (as opposed to having to move to the search engine site first as in these steps).


Image Use the search results page to view the results of your search. These pages work just like other web pages. You can zoom, scroll, and tap links to explore results.

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Searching on a Web Page

To search for words or phrases on a web page you are viewing, perform these steps, except in step 4, tap the word or phrase for which you want to search in the On This Page section (you might have to swipe up the screen to see this section). You return to the page you are browsing and each occurrence of your search term on the page is highlighted.


Saving and Organizing Bookmarks

In addition to moving bookmarks from a computer or iCloud onto your iPhone, you can save new bookmarks directly in your iPhone (they are synced onto other devices, too). You can also organize bookmarks on your iPhone to make them easier and faster to access.

Creating Bookmarks

When you want to make it easy to return to a website, create a bookmark with the following steps:

Image Move to a web page for which you want to save a bookmark.

Image Tap the Share icon.

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Image Tap Add Bookmark. The Add Bookmark screen appears, showing the title of the web page you are viewing, which will also be the name of the bookmark initially; its URL; and the Location field, which shows where the bookmark will be stored when you create it.

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Image Edit the bookmark’s name as needed, or tap the Clear (x) icon to erase the current name, and then type the new name of the bookmark. The titles of some web pages can be quite long, so it’s a good idea to shorten them so the bookmark’s name is easier to read on the iPhone’s screen.

Image Tap the current folder shown under Location. The Location section expands and you see all of the folders of bookmarks on your phone. The folder that is currently selected is marked with a check mark.

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Image Swipe up and down the screen to find the folder in which you want to place the new bookmark. You can choose any folder on the screen; folders are indented when they are contained within other folders.

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Image Tap the folder in which to store the new bookmark. You return to the Add Bookmark screen, which shows the location you selected.

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Image Tap Save. The bookmark is created and saved in the location you specified. You can use the bookmark to return to the website at any time.

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Organizing Bookmarks

You’ve seen how bookmarks can be contained in folders, which is a good thing because you’re likely to have a lot of them. You can change the names and locations of your existing bookmarks and folders as follows:

Image Move to the Bookmarks screen showing the bookmarks and folders you want to change. (You can’t move among the Bookmarks screens while you are in Edit mode so you need to start at the location where the items you want to change are located.)

Image Tap Edit. Unlock icons appear next to the folders and bookmarks you can change (some folders can’t be changed and you won’t see controls for those folders). The Order icons also appear on the right side of the screen, again only for folders or bookmarks you can change.

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Image Drag the Order icon next to the bookmark or folder you want to move up or down the screen to change the order in which it appears on the screen. When you drag a folder or bookmark between other items, they slide apart to make room for the folder or bookmark you are dragging. The order of the items in the list is the order in which they appear on the Bookmarks screen.

Image Tap a folder to change its name or location.

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Image Change the name in the name bar.

Image To change the location of the folder, tap the Location bar, which shows the folder’s current location.

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Can’t Move?

If you have only one bookmark you’ve added, you can’t move them around as described here because Safari won’t let you “disturb” the default bookmarks and folders (such as Favorites). You can only delete default bookmarks.


Image Swipe up and down the list of folders until you see the folder in which you want to place the folder you are working with.

Image Tap the folder into which you want to move the folder you are editing.

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Image Tap the Back icon, which is labeled with the location from which you came. You move back to the prior Bookmarks screen, which reflects any changes you made.

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Image Tap a bookmark you want to change.

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Editing a Bookmark

If the bookmark you want to change isn’t on the Bookmarks screen you are currently viewing, tap Done to exit Edit mode. Then open the folder containing the bookmark you want to change and tap Edit. You are able to change the bookmark.


Image Change the bookmark’s name in the name bar.

Image If you want to change a bookmark’s URL, tap the URL bar and make changes to the current URL. For example, you might want to change it to have the bookmark point to a site’s home page rather than the page you are viewing.

Image To change the location of the folder or bookmark, tap the Location bar and follow steps 7 and 8.

Image Tap Done. You move back to the previous screen, and any changes you made—such as changing the name or location of a bookmark—are reflected.

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Image Tap New Folder to create a new folder.

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Image Enter the name of the folder.

Image Follow steps 6−8 to choose the location in which you want to save the new folder.

Image Tap Done. The new folder is created in the location you selected. You can place folders and bookmarks into it by using the Location bar to navigate to it.

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Image Tap Done. Your changes are saved, and you exit Edit mode.

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Browsing Both Ways

As you browse, make sure you try both the horizontal and vertical orientations. Safari sometimes offers different features in the two orientations on different models. For example, when you open the Bookmarks screen and rotate an iPhone 6 Plus, 6s Plus, or 7 Plus, the screen is divided into two panes. On the left is the Bookmarks pane you are viewing and the right pane shows the web page you were browsing. If you tap a bookmark, the web page in the right pane becomes the page at which the bookmark points.


Deleting Bookmarks or Folders of Bookmarks

You can get rid of bookmarks or folders of bookmarks you don’t want any more by deleting them:

Image Move to the screen containing the folder or bookmark you want to delete.

Image Swipe to the left on the folder or bookmark you want to delete.

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Image Tap Delete. The folder or bookmark is deleted. Note that when you delete a folder, all the bookmarks it contains are deleted, too.

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Using 3D Touch with Safari

Like other default iPhone apps, Safari supports 3D Touch (iPhone 6s and later models), which you can use in a couple of ways.

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When you press and hold on the Safari app’s icon, you see the Quick Actions menu. You can select from among its options to quickly perform actions in Safari. For example, choose New Tab to open a new tab in which you can navigate to a web page, or choose Show Bookmarks to jump to the Bookmarks page.

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When you are browsing links, such as when you have performed a search, or your bookmarks, press on a link or a bookmark in which you are interested to perform a Peek on it. In the Peek window, you see the web page for the link or web page on which you peeked. If you continue to press on the Peek, it pops open so you can view the web page in Safari. When you perform a Peek on some screens, such as the links resulting from a search, you see an upward-facing arrow at the top of the screen; this indicates you can swipe up the screen to reveal a menu of commands. Tap a command to perform it. For example, tap Open in New Tab to open the web page in a new tab in Safari.

Sharing Web Pages

Safari makes it easy to share web pages that you think will be valuable to others. There are many ways to share, including AirDrop, Message, Mail, Twitter, and Facebook. A couple of examples will prepare you to use any of them.

Emailing a Link to a Web Page

You can quickly email links to web pages you visit.

Image Use Safari to navigate to a web page whose link you want to email to someone.

Image Tap the Share icon.

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Image Tap Mail. A new email message is created, and the link to the web page is inserted into the body. The subject of the message is the title of the web page.

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Image Complete and send the email message. (Refer to Chapter 8, “Sending, Receiving, and Managing Email,” for information about the Mail app.) When the recipient receives your message, he can visit the website by tapping the link included in the email message.

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Messaging a Web Page

If you come across a page that you want to share with someone via Messages, Safari makes it easy.

Image Use Safari to navigate to a web page whose link you want to message to someone.

Image Tap the Share icon.

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Image Tap Message. A new message is created, and the link to the web page is inserted.

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Image Address the message.

Image Enter text you want to send along with the link to the web page.

Image Tap the Send icon. Your message is sent. The recipients can visit the web page by tapping the link included in the message.

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Signing In to Websites Automatically

If you enable Safari to remember usernames and passwords, it can enter this information for you automatically. When Safari encounters a site for which it recognizes and can save login information, you are prompted to allow Safari to save that information. This doesn’t work with all sites; if you aren’t prompted to allow Safari to save login information, you can’t use this feature with the site you are visiting. When saved, this information can be entered for you automatically.

Image Move to a web page that requires you to log in to an account.

Image Enter your account’s username and password.

Image Tap the icon to log in to your account, such as Continue, Sign In, Submit, Login, and such. You are prompted to save the login information.

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Image Tap Save Password to save the information. The next time you move to the login page, your username and password are entered for you automatically. Tap Never for This Website if you don’t want the information to be saved and you don’t want to be prompted again. Tap Not Now (you won’t always have this option) if you don’t want the information saved but do want to be prompted again later to save it.

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