Troubleshooting Tips for Safari

In this video, we’re going to take a look at a few tips for troubleshooting safari on the iPad. If you’re having a problem with a specific website in safari, on the iPad, what can you do? Or the different options you have available to you? Well, you can do something as simple as force quitting. The.

Restarting the iPad all the way down to deleting the cash for a specific website to deleting the cash for all of the websites, you can even turn on and off pop up windows. That’s what we’re going to take a look at in this video. Let’s go to my iPad. Now, the first thing I recommend doing is force quitting.

Pretty simple to do. It’s not going to lose any history, but it may fix the problem in a lot of cases. This is all you have to do. I’m on an iPad pro here. So all I need to do is just swipe up with three fingers. I can see all of my open apps. I go over to safari here and then all I have to do is just swipe.

And it forced quit that app. Now, when I open up safari again, what it’ll do is open up to the last website that I was in. It’s not going to lose any history. So I just go down to safari here in the doc, click on it, opens it up. And then in most cases, this will fix the problem. If that doesn’t fix the problem, you can also just restart the iPad.

This will fix a lot of problems as well. Sounds simple, but it actually does. Now if those two things don’t work, the next thing you’ll want to do is make sure that you turn off any extensions with safari on the iPad. What you are able to do is download extensions from the app store. These could be ad blockers, you know, just various things that can help safari.

What will you want to do is make sure that those are turned off. Those can also cause conflicts, in some cases, not often, these apps do have to be, or these extensions do have to be approved by apple, but in some cases it could cause a problem. So you just want to turn it off temporarily to do that. What we need to do is we need to go to our settings app.

So I go over to my settings app here in the doc, and then we go over to safari settings. You may have to swipe up on the left side to find this. When I select this, we’re going to have a number of different options here. And one of them here is for extensions. What you want to do is make sure that any extensions are turned off.

So I click on this and then you’re going to say, I do have an extension here, Firefox focus. So if I want to make sure that this is turned off, I just go over to the right here and I make sure that this is turned off. Now that extension is no longer going to be used. If you have a lot of extensions, turn them all off or maybe just turn them off individually and see if one of them is causing a conflict or the website.

Now, if that doesn’t work, the next thing you’ll want to do is maybe delete the cash, the website data to do that. We go back over to safari here and then down at the very bottom, you’re going to see advanced. When I click on advanced here, I have website data from here. When I click on this one, I’m able to do a, see all of the different website data.

Actually, I can see which websites safari has data from. I can also see the size over here. If you’re having a problem with a specific website, one website, then what you want to do is go up to edit here in the upper right-hand. And when you click on it, where you’re able to do is delete the data for a specific website.

So I could delete the data for Dan’s Tutorials here. It’s not going to affect any of the other website. If you’re having a general overall problem, or you just want to start fresh. What you can also do is delete all of the data to do that. What you do is you go down to the very bottom here and you’re going to see remove all website data.

When I select this, it’s going to remove all website data. Now in most cases, Any one of those steps or a combination of those steps will solve the problem. Now, what about pop-ups? I mentioned popups towards the beginning of the video. What can you do about those to reduce popups while by default, there is a setting in safari settings here for popups, and it is on by default to find that we go back over to our safari settings.

I’m just going to click on safari here on the side here, and it’s going to bring us back. All of our settings. You’re going to see when I swipe down here, it’s towards the top. We have block pop-ups again, this is turned down by default, but maybe it was turned off inadvertently. Well, you want to do is just make sure that that is turned on when that is turned on.

Safari will try to block any popups. It’s not perfect, but it really does do a pretty good. So those are some troubleshooting tips for safari. Start out with the simple stuff force, quit safari, restart the iPad. If that doesn’t work, make sure that you do not have any extensions turned on. And then if that doesn’t work, delete the website data, you can delete the website data for a specific website or for all the websites.

This is all done in safari settings. And then if you’re having a pop-up problem, make sure that pop-up windows is turned off. So those are some troubleshooting tips for safari on the iPad.