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 iPhone30 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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Close All Open Tabs in Safari
Clear your History
Learn how to select how far back you would like to clear your history and cookies and why you would want to in Safari for the Mac.
If you are having an issue with a website, one of the first solutions to try and fix it is deleting your history and cookies. When you clear your history in Safari, it clears any website history you have as well as any associated cookie data. You can select how far back you’d like to clear as well. See how and why you may want to clear your website history in Safari on the Mac in this video.
Video Transcript (video also has closed captions):
In this video, I will show you how you can clear your browsing history in Safari on the Mac. This is a great troubleshooting tip. If you’re having a problem with a website, when you clear your browsing history, you can select how far back you want to go or how far back you want to clear it, and when you do clear it, it does clear your history of the web pages you visited as well as any cookies. Let’s see how we clear our history in Safari. Let’s go to my Mac.
Let’s first discuss what happens when you browse around your website. What your Mac will do, as you’re browsing around different websites, is it’ll keep a history of those websites. It’ll keep a history of any pages that you visited. This way, what you’re able to do easily is go back to a previous page or a previous website through your history.
Also, what your Mac does is stores related data to that website in a cookie. This cookie is only stored on your Mac, but it’s an essential part of browsing around the web. Cookies are how websites keep track of your shopping cart; cookies are how websites keep track of if you are logged in. My site uses cookies. These cookies are not shared among other websites. All they are used for is just internal. I am keeping track of if you are logged in, or as I said, keeping track of what you have in your shopping cart.
Now, this history and cookies can cause problems. When you go to a website, and it crashes, one of the first things you may want to try, if you can’t get to that website, is deleting your history and cookies. So how do we do that? Well, it’s pretty simple in Safari to do that.
All we have to do is just go up under Safari in the menu bar. And you’re going to see Clear History. When I select this, I get a new window that opens up, and from here, I can select how far back I want to clear. Now, if this is just a recent website that you’re having a problem with, you may only have to go back to the last hour. So then all of that other history from previous days is still going to be there. It’s only going to erase your history, your cookies from the last hour.
Now, if you’ve had problems with this website for a while now, what you may want to do is select to go further back. Maybe you want to go back to today and yesterday. All you do is just select this and then click Clear History. When you do that, it’s going to remove all of your history and cookies from today and yesterday.
Now I said all. It is not just for the one website that you are on. If I were to select Today and Yesterday here and Clear History, not only will it clear the cookies and history from Dan’s Tutorials, but it’s going to do it for every other website that I visited for today and yesterday. I’ll be able to go back further, but I will not have any cookies or any history from today or yesterday. So it doesn’t do this just for a single website; it does it for all of your websites that you visited with Safari, and as I said, what’ll happen then when you go back to that website, in most cases, you’ll be able to visit that website, and it’ll work properly. This is a good troubleshooting tip.
So that’s how you clear your cookies, as well as your history on the Mac. All you have to do is just go to Clear History under Safari in the menu bar. You’ll have a new window that opens up, and then from there, you’ll be able to select how far back you want to clear history. When you do clear history, it does clear history as well as related cookies and other data.
So that’s how you can clear history as well as any related cookies on the Mac.