Add and Access Favorite Bookmarks

In this video, I’m going to show you how to work with favorite bookmarks in Safari on the iPad. Let’s go to my iPad.

So I am in Safari here, and if we look at our Bookmarks, to look at our bookmarks we go up to our book icon here, I tap on it and then you’re going to see we have Favorites. Favorites is just a folder within our bookmarks. So when I go over to All, what I’m able to do is see all of my bookmarks. So we can see I have my Favorites here, as well as the iPad User Guide. Again, this Favorites here, this is just a folder. When I tap on this, I can see all of the different websites in my Favorites, and within these favorites, I have another folder called News. I tap on this and I can see all of my news websites.

So that’s basically what favorites is, it’s a folder within your bookmarks, but it does have some special advantages. We can easily access these bookmarks that are in my Favorites from a start page, as well as from the tool bar. What I’m going to do is close my bookmarks here. Now let’s go and open up a new tab. I tap on the plus here. When I tap on the plus, Safari opens up to the start page. If we look at the start page, you’re going to see, we have Favorites. These websites under Favorites are the same websites that are located within my Favorites folder here.

So when I tap on this to show the sidebar and we go back over to my Favorites, you’re going to see I have Apple News, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Bing, and the Weather Channel. When we look at my Favorites here, I have Apple News, Wikipedia, as well as Yahoo, Bing, and the Weather Channel. So now what I’m able to do is easily access any website or any folder of websites directly from the start page. I open up a new tab again, I’d can just tap on any one of my Favorites here.

Now we can also add this Favorites to our toolbar. I’m going to close this, and if you’re familiar with the Mac, you’ll know that at the top of Safari on the Mac, we have a toolbar. On the Mac, our Favorites are located in that toolbar. Well we can do the same thing in Safari. To do that, we need to go to our Settings app. So I’m going to press in on the Home button. And now we’re going to go over to my Settings. I need to go to Safari. And under Safari, you’re going to see an option for Show Favorites Bar. All I need to do is just tap on the slider here to turn it on. And now when I go back over to Safari, I’m going to tap on Safari here in the Dock. You’re going to see I have my Favorites up here.

So now anything that I add to that Favorites folder is also going to show up in my toolbar. So I have easy access to my news here. This is a folder, right? Well, when I tap on this, I can see all of the sites within that folder.

So now let’s add a site to my Favorites and see how this all works. First thing we’re going to do is we’re just going to close a few of these tabs here, get rid of some of the clutter. So I’m looking at my site here, Dan’s Tutorials. I would like to add this as a Favorite, so it shows up on a start page as well as in my toolbar, now that I turned that on. Well, in order to do that, all we really need to do is just go over to our Share icon here. And from here, I select Add To Favorites and I select on Add To Favorites. It’s automatically going to add it to that Favorites folder within my bookmarks. So now let’s tap on Add To Favorites. I tap on Save. And now, if we look at my toolbar here, you’re going to see Dan’s Tutorials. What do you think’s going to happen when I open up a new tab? Remember how we have our Favorites in the start page. I tap on the plus and you’re going to see Dan’s Tutorials here under Favorites. Let’s take a look at that Favorites folder. I go over to my Bookmarks here and when we look at my Favorites, I have Dan’s Tutorials.

So that’s how we work with Favorites or favorite bookmarks in Safari on the iPad. Basically your Favorites is just a folder within your bookmarks, but you do have easy access to any folders and websites within that Favorites folder. They’re going to show whenever you open up a new page, a new webpage and you see your start page with Safari, you’re going to see all of your Favorites. Also, what you’re able to do is show those Favorites in your tool bar. You do have to turn this on, you go to your Settings app and then go to Safari, and then you can turn on Show Favorites in your Toolbar. Once you do that, when you add a folder or at a website to your Favorites, you’re going to have easy access to those sites.

So that’s how Favorite bookmarks work in Safari on the Mac.