Safari App Tips & Lessons
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Classes on Safari3 Lessons
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General Lessons for Using Safari2 Lessons
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Browsing and Searching with Safari on the Mac19 Lessons
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Browsing and Searching Websites
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Using Picture-in-Picture with YouTube
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Zooming in on Webpages
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Setting Safari to open new Windows and Tabs to a Homepage
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Browsing, Searching, and Clearing History
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Downloading Files and PDFs
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Viewing Webpages in Tabs
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Browse Webpage History through Safari's Toolbar
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Private Browsing
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Viewing and Editing Top Sites
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Viewing, Editing, and Searching Bookmarks
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Add and Access Favorite Bookmarks
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Preview Websites in Tabs
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Translate Websites
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Show the Full Website Address in Safari
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Add Websites to the Dock on the Mac
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Set and Preserve Zoom levels for Websites
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Tips and shortcuts for working with links and browsing in Safari
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Safari Profiles on the Mac Simplified
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Browsing and Searching Websites
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Reading and Sharing options for Safari on the Mac4 Lessons
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Using AutoFill to for Passwords and Other Information in Safari8 Lessons
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Enabling Autofill and iCloud Keychain
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Turn off AutoFill for User Names and Passwords
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Minimizing Risk when using AutoFill
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Using AutoFill with your Contact Information
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Using AutoFill with Credit Cards
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Using AutoFill for Usernames and Passwords
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Having Safari suggest a Strong Password
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AutoFill and Other Forms
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Enabling Autofill and iCloud Keychain
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Customizing Safari on the Mac8 Lessons
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Troubleshooting Safari on the Mac5 Lessons
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Lessons for Safari on the iPad35 Lessons
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Change the Search Engine Safari uses on your iPad
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A Quick Look at the Interface
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Browsing and Searching
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Edit Safari's Start Page
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Request the Desktop Website with Safari on the iPad
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Browsing and Clearing History
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Viewing PDFs
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Working with Tabs
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Private Browsing
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Viewing and Editing Bookmarks
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Add and Access Favorite Bookmarks
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Reading Webpages with Safari Reader
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Keeping a Reading List
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Filling Out Forms with AutoFill
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Safari Settings
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Close Tabs in Safari Automatically
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Open Multiple Bookmarks as New Tabs
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Open Links in New Tabs in Safari
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Open Browser Tabs in a Split View
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Copy Website Links from Tab Groups in Safari
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How to Close All Open Tabs in Safari on the iPad
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Set your Default Browser
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Translate the Language of a Website
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View the Privacy Report for Websites
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View Favicons in the Tab Bar
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Download Audio and Video Files
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Troubleshooting Tips for Safari
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Save PDF's from Safari to the iPad
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Close All Open Tabs in Safari on the iPad
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How to Read Articles Distraction-Free with Safari Reader Mode on iPad
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Manage your Reading List in Safari on the iPad
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Unlock the Full Potential of Safari's Reading List on Your iPad
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Finding text on web pages made easy in Safari on the iPad!
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Organize your frequent webpages with Safari's Favorites feature
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Safari Profiles on the iPad
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Change the Search Engine Safari uses on your iPad
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Lessons for Safari on the iPhone31 Lessons
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Close All Open Tabs in Safari
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Set the Search Engine Safari uses on the iPhone
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A Quick Look at the Interface
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Browsing and Searching
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Browsing and Clearing History
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Viewing and Saving PDFs
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Working with Tabs
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Private Browsing
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Viewing and Editing Bookmarks
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Reader View
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Keeping a Reading List
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Safari Settings
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Save a Webpage as a PDF
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Download Audio and Video Files
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Close Open Tabs Automatically
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Translate a Website's Language
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Privacy Report
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Move the Address Bar Location to the Top
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Open Recently Closed Tabs
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Quickly Open New Private Browsing Tabs
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Pull to Refresh Webpages
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Add, Remove, and Rearrange Start Page Categories
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Create Tab Groups for Web Pages
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Copy website links in a Tab Group
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How to Easily Close All Your Open Tabs in Safari
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How to Remove Ads and Enjoy Safari on Your iPhone with Reader Mode
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How to Use Safari's Reading List on your iPhone
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Search for text within web pages in Safari on the iPhone
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Learn to Clear Your Safari History on iPhone
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The Simple Guide to Using Safari Profiles on the iPhone
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Translate Entire Web Pages on the iPhone
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Close All Open Tabs in Safari
Customize Safari’s Start Page
Learn how to customize the Start page in Safari on the Mac.
With Safari on the Mac, you can customize the Start Page. If you are not familiar with the Start Page in Safari, this is the page that opens when you open a new browser window to tab. By default, this is what opens when you open Safari. You can customize this Start page. You can set if you want to see your favorites, your most frequently visited websites, Siri suggestions, your reading list, and you can set your background for this page. See how this all works in this lesson for customizing the Start Page in Safari on the Mac.
Video Transcript (video also has closed captions):
In this video, I’m going to show you how you can modify or change the settings for your Start page in Safari. Let’s go to my Mac.
Let’s first go and open up Safari here. Now, if you’re not familiar with the Start page, when you first open up Safari, the window that Safari brings up as your Start page. We have our favorites here. I can also see my most frequently visited websites. I have my privacy report. And then, when I add something to my reading list, I can see what I’ve recently added to my reading list. So this is the Start page. Again, when you first open up a web browser, this is the page that Safari brings up by default. If I close this, I’m going to click on the red dot, and now I go back under file here, and I go to new window. It’s going to bring me to my Start page.
Now, if your browser does not open up to the Start page, what you’ll need to do is go into your Safari preferences to do that. You go up to Safari in the menu bar, and then you go over to Preferences, and then you make sure that you are looking at General.
Under general, you’re going to see a couple of options here. New windows open with and new tabs open width. You can see that both of mine are set to my Start page. If you want to use a Start page, make sure that this dropdown is set to your Start page.
Now, let’s look at how we can modify this when looking at our Start page. When you go down to the bottom right corner, you’re going to see these three horizontal lines. What this allows us to do when it’s clicked on is change our Start page. If I no longer want to see my favorites, I uncheck favorites. Maybe I do not want to see Siri suggestions. I can uncheck that. So we can show and hide different sections. This includes favorites frequently visited websites: privacy report, series suggestions, reading lists, and the background image. So if you’ve never used reading lists and don’t use it, you can select this to turn it off. And it’s not going to show up on your start page.
Well, what about this background image? What we can do is we can change the background image here. So if I want this image here to be my background for the Start page, I click on it, and now we can see when we’re looking at our browser. I have a new background for my Start page. I can go over to the right here or swipe over to the left, and I have more backgrounds. You can also add your background. If we go back to the beginning here, you’re going to see a plus. And from there, I’m able to select my image. How do we remove a background? Once we set it, we can see that I’ve set a background here. I no longer want this background. I want to have a nice clean background. Well, all you have to do is just de-select it here, and it no longer shows the background.
So that’s how we edit our Start page in Safari on the Mac. We first have to go to our Start page. If your browser isn’t set up, if Safari is not set up to use the Start page, you go to Safari Preferences, and under General, you can set it to use a Start page when you open up a new window and a new tab. Once you’re on your Start page, you go down to the lower right-hand corner. You’re going to see three lines; click on that. And from there, you can turn on and off different sections, including favorites, your reading list, your privacy report, and even the background.
So that’s how we customize or change our Start-up page in Safari on the Mac.