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On your iPhone or iPad, you can easily customize the Safari Start Page in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 (or higher). You can make the page blank (mostly), add a background image, or pick and choose what you want to see. Here's how.

First, open Safari on your iPhone or iPad and open a new tab by tapping the tabs button (two overlapping rectangles), then tapping the plus ("+") button.

You'll see Safari's "Start Page" by default. To edit what's on the Start Page, scroll down if necessary and tap the "Edit" button.

When you tap "Edit," a "Customize Start Page" window will appear. Use the switches beside the listed options to turn them on or off. Here's what each option does.

• Favorites: This displays items from your Favorites list (like bookmarks).
• Frequently Visited: You'll see a list of frequently visited websites.
• Shared With You: This gives you a list of items shared with you from other people through the Messages app.
• Privacy Report: This shows a report on the number of trackers Safari has blocked recently.
• Siri Suggestions: This displays suggestions from Siri related to what's in your history and bookmarks.
• Reading List: This shows items from your Reading List .
• iCloud Tabs: This shows Safari tabs that are synchronized across iCloud from your other devices.

While also in the "Customize Start Page" window, you can use the "three lines" handle beside each item to tap and drag the Start Page items in the list. This will change the order of how the items will appear on the Start Page.

And if you turn the switch beside "Background Image" into the "on" position, you can select a background picture that will display behind the content on your Start Page. Tap an image in the thumbnails or tap the plus ("+") button to select a custom image from your photo library.

If you want to make your Start Page as minimalist as possible, switch off every item on the "Customize Start Page" list. (Unfortunately, you'll still see the "Edit" button.)

When you're done, click the "X" button to close the Customize Start Page window. The changes you've made take effect immediately. Happy browsing!

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How to customize your start page in Safari on iPhone and iPad

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Safari is probably one of your most used apps on your current iPhone. After all, Safari is your gateway to the wonderful world of the internet on the go. But have you ever wished you could make your mobile Safari experience a little more personal?

Since macOS Big Sur, Apple gave users the ability to customize the start page in Safari on the Mac . But this same feature did not make its way to the iPhone and iPad until iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, respectively. When you customize the start page in mobile Safari, you can pick your own cool background image and choose what sections you want to display when you first open a new tab. Sections can include your Favorites, Siri Suggestions, Reading List, and more. It's a simple little setting, but customizing your start page makes Safari feel more like your own.

Here's how to customize your start page in Safari on iPhone and iPad.

How to choose sections for your start page in Safari on iOS

• Launch Safari on your iPhone or iPad.
• If you are on an existing webpage, tap the Tabs button and launch a new tab .

• Scroll down to the bottom of the start page and tap Edit .
• If you prefer to use the same start page customization across all of your iPhones, iPads, and Macs, make sure the toggle for Use Start Page on All Devices is set to ON (green). This ensures that your start page appearance and settings are synced through iCloud.
• You'll see sections for Favorites , Frequently Visited , Shared With You , Privacy Report , Siri Suggestions , Reading List , and iCloud Tabs . Tap the toggles for the sections that you want to display to ON (green).
• If you want to rearrange the order that these sections appear in, just drag-and-drop with the handle into the order that you prefer.

In iOS 16 , a new section for Recently Closed Tabs will be added to the available options listed above. This section will show tabs that you've recently closed, in case you want to pull them up again.

How to set a background image for your start page in Safari on iOS

Adding a background image is a good way to spice up your Safari browsing experience while you're on the start page. Apple gives you the option to choose a preset image, or you can even pick out your own. Here's how.

• Make sure you're in a new tab so you can be on the start page .
• Scroll down to the bottom and tap Edit .
• Tap the toggle for Background Image to ON (green).
• Select one of the preset images by tapping on it.
• If you prefer to use your own, tap the large plus (+) button.
• Choose an image from your Photo Library .

If you've already set an image from your Photo Library but want to change it, just tap on the square with your custom image to browse your Photo Library again for a different image.

A personalized Safari

As you can see, it's easy to customize your start page in Safari on your favorite iPhone and iPad in iOS 15 . Doing so will give you a better experience whenever you open up a new tab in Safari, and it is a great way to add your own touch to the browser.

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iOS 15: How to Customize Your Safari Start Page and Background

First seen in macOS Big Sur, Safari's redesigned Start Page in iOS 15 is a one-stop shop for all of your Bookmarks, Favorites, Frequently Visited sites, Siri Suggestions, iCloud Tabs, Reading List, and Privacy Report.

• Launch Safari on your iPhone or iPad .
• Tap the open tabs icon in the bottom right corner of the Safari interface.

• Scroll down to the bottom of the Start Page and tap the Edit button.
• To sync your Start Page settings with other devices linked to the same Apple ID , turn on the switch next to Use Start Page on All Devices .
• Use the switches to control what you want to appear on your Start Page. Options include: Favorites , Frequently Visited , Shared with You , Privacy Report , Siri Suggestions , Reading List , and iCloud Tabs .
• You can also turn on the Background image option and choose one of the existing iOS wallpapers, or select your own from your photos by tapping the big + button.

In iOS 15, Tab Groups is another new feature in Safari that can improve your browsing experience. To learn more about Tab Groups, be sure to check out our dedicated how-to.

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Your Safari start page, or "homepage", is the page that loads whenever you start Safari. You can change this page to whatever you'd like, but if you have an adware infection it may keep getting reset. If this is the case, you can try manually removing the adware so that you can regain your control. If you use an iOS device, you can create custom shortcuts to simulate a traditional start page.

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• If you're using Safari for Windows, click the "Edit" menu and select "Preferences". It is highly recommended that you switch to a more up-to-date browser, as Safari for Windows is no longer supported by Apple and is not receiving any security updates.

• You can also click Set to Current Page to set your new homepage to the page that is currently open.
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How to Change Your Homepage in Safari

Mobile and desktop Safari use different procedures

What to Know

• Safari on Mac: With Safari open, choose  Safari  >  Preferences > select General tab.
• Then, next to Homepage, add a URL or select Set to Current Page .
• Safari iOS app: Open the page you want > Sharing icon > Add to Home Screen .

This article explains how to change your Safari homepage for the Mac and the Safari app for iOS devices. This information applies to Macs with macOS Monterey (12) through OS X El Capitan (10.11), as well as iPhones and iPads with iOS 15 through iOS 11 and iPad OS 15 through iPadOS 13.

How to Set the Homepage in Safari on a Mac

You can choose any page you want to display when you launch Safari . For example, if you usually begin browsing with a Google search, set the Google homepage as your default. If the first thing you do when you go online is check your email, tell Safari to go to your provider's site.

Here's how to set your Safari homepage on a Mac.

Open Safari on your Mac.

Select Safari from the menu bar and choose Preferences from the drop-down menu.

Select the  General  tab on the Preferences screen.

Next to  Homepage , type the URL you want to set as the Safari homepage.

Select Set to Current Page to choose the page you're on.

Exit the General preferences window to save your changes.

Set the Safari Homepage on an iPhone

You can't set a homepage on an iPhone or another iOS device the same way you can with Safari on the desktop. However, you can add a web page link to your device's Home screen and open it to go directly to that page.

Tap the Safari icon on the iPhone Home screen to open the browser.

Open the web page you want to use as a Safari shortcut.

Tap Sharing (the square with an arrow) at the bottom of the web page to display the Sharing options.

Scroll up on the Sharing screen to see more options.

Tap  Add to Home Screen .

Accept the suggested name or change it, then tap Add to create the shortcut.

You can tap the shortcut instead of opening Safari to always start at the site you chose.

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Depending on the settings, you may find the Safari browser on your MacBook opening a blank page or landing on the default Safari Home page.

However, the macOS Safari browser also provides the option to set any website as the Home page and this feature can be used to make the Safari browser on your Mac to always open your favorite or most frequently accessed website.

In the case of iPhone, Safari browser does not provide the option to Set Homepage, but it provides the option to add websites to the Home screen of your device.

1. Set Any Website As Safari Homepage on Mac

You can make the Safari browser on MacBook always land on your favorite or most frequently visited website, instead of opening a blank page or landing on the default Safari Homepage.

1. Open the Safari Browser on your Mac and visit the website that you want to set as Safari Home Page on your Mac.

2. Once you land on the website, click on the Safari tab in top-menu bar and select Preferences in the drop-down menu.

3. On Safari Preferences screen, switch to General tab  and click on Set to Current Page button or enter URL of the website that you want to designate as the Homepage in Safari Browser.

important: Make sure that you set New windows open with option is set to Homepage .

2. Add Shortcut to Home Screen on iPhone Using Safari Browser

As mentioned above, the Safari browser on iPhone does not provide the option to Set or Change Homepage, but provides the option to Add Shortcuts to Home Screen.

1. Open the Safari App on iPhone and visit the website that you want to set as Homepage in Safari browser on iPhone.

2. Once you are on the website, tap on the Share button located in bottom menu to open Safari sharing menu.

3. On the sharing menu, select Add to Home Screen option.

4. On the next screen, tap on the Add  option, located at top-right corner.

This will add a Shortcut to the website on the Home Screen of your iPhone, which allows you to vist your favorite or most frequently accessed website by tapping on the shortcut.

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Here’s how you can land on your favourite website as soon as you open Safari.

The ‘homepage’ on your web browser is the page it loads whenever you launch it on your device. You can set your homepage to your favourite website or something more functional like a search engine or a news website. The possibilities are endless. If you want to save your internet data , you can choose not to have a homepage at all. Here’s how you can change your Safari homepage on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

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Can you change the homepage on Safari?

Like all web browsers, Safari also lets you set any website as your homepage. But there’s one catch. You can only do this on your Mac. Safari for iOS and iPadOS has no option to set a preferred homepage. However, to make your most visited websites more accessible, you can add them to your iPhone’s home screen . Once you do that, they will appear as app icons on the home screen. Tapping on them will redirect you to their respective web pages in Safari.

Mac users can not only set a homepage, but they can also choose whether the homepage loads by default every time they open a new tab or window. Like the iPhone, your Mac also allows you to make a desktop for any website. You can do this simply by dragging the URL and dropping it on the desktop. This is a great trick for creating app-like icons for apps that are not available on Mac (like Netflix and Google Calendar).

Change Safari homepage on Mac

Step 1: Open Safari on your Mac.

Step 2: On the top menu, click on Safari and select Preferences .

Step 3: Switch to the General tab.

Step 4: In the ‘Homepage’ field, enter the URL of the website you want to set as Safari’s homepage .

Step 5: You can also set the new tabs and windows to open with the homepage.

Step 6: Relaunch the browser to view the homepage.

Change the Safari homepage on an iPhone or iPad

Since Safari for iOS does not allow setting a default homepage, you can do the next best thing and add a web shortcut to your iPhone/iPad’s home screen. Here’s how.

Step 1: Launch the Safari web browser on your iPhone.

Step 2: Open the website you want to set as the home page.

Step 3: Hit the Share icon at the bottom of the screen.

Step 4: Tap on Add to Home Screen .

Step 5: Give it a name and hit Add at the top right corner of the screen.

Whenever you wish to open Safari to that page, hit its icon on your iPhone home screen.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Can the safari browser on my iphone have a home page.

No, you cannot set up a default homepage for Safari on your iPhone or iPad. Instead, you can add a web shortcut to your iPhone’s home screen.

How do I add a web shortcut to my iPhone’s home screen?

To add a web shortcut to your iPhone’s home screen, open the website in Safari, hit the share icon at the bottom, select ‘Add to Home Screen’, and hit ‘Add’.

How do I set up a Safari homepage on my Mac?

Open Safari, then go to Safari>Preferences and enter the URL of the website next to ‘Homepage’.

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This is how you can change your Safari homepage on a Mac, iPhone, or iPad. If you know any other way to go about this task, let us know in the comments! While you’re here, check out these 4 ways to update Safari on your iPhone and Mac.

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In the 154th episode, David and Donna share tips for customizing your Safari homepage for quick access to all your important links. Other topics include editing Portrait mode photos, marking up images, and tips for planning your next trip with your iPhone. 

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- That would have been very convenient on my trip. I feel like hiking, especially, it seems like it's a great way to have it on your body so you can pick it up and take photos really easily without losing your phone.

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- All right, next up, we have our Daily Tip. If you may already be a subscribed to this but we have a free daily newsletter called "iPhone Life Tip of The Day", and we send you a one-minute tip that teaches you something cool you can do with your iPhone every day. Like the name of it suggests. So I wanted to share our latest favorite tip and that was how to bookmark a page in the Safari App on your iPhone or iPad. And I chose this one because I use the Safari App on my computer a lot. And I use bookmarks there all the time, but I actually didn't know how to do this on my iPhone. And so I hadn't really been bookmarking pages until I read this tip. Do you use bookmarks often David?

- I do and I actually sort of have a separate side tip for this because I use bookmark slot. I find that I often use bookmarks like I bookmark things on my computer and then I'll want to access them on my phone. So having those swapped, I find to be really useful. Like as an example, we have a few Zoom links that we regularly access when we have regular meetings. And so those, I have bookmarked everywhere so I can access it from my phone and my computer. But I will give some bonus tips on that after we give the tip of how to do the basic bookmarks. Are you a bookmarker?

- Yeah. So, I think I will be more after looking over this tip because being able to bookmark on both your mobile devices and on your computer I think will make it a lot more useful. This is a related feature on Safari but I use Favorites all the time. And that allows like whenever you open up a new tab in Safari you'll see all of your most frequently or like whatever links that you've favorited. And so that's how I get to things like all of our the Google docs and spreadsheets and Zoom links that I want there. But, now that I see you can create different like bookmark folders and things like that I think I'll be using that more. But just for people who don't use bookmarks, the intention of the feature is just to have an easy way to access links that you're using regularly like David said. So the way you use this tip is if you open up the Safari App on your iPhone or iPad and you navigate to a web page that you wanna bookmark then you just go and you press and hold, there's a little book icon at the bottom of your display on the menu there. So you have to like press and hold it. And then a little menu will pop up that says, "Add Bookmark." So you'll do that. You also can tap the Share icon and you'll have an option to add a bookmark from there as well. So it's up to you, but this is a bit of a faster way. So once you tap, Add Bookmark, you'll choose where you save it to. If you have different folder options then you can save it to a specific folder. Otherwise it will by default save to your Favorites. And Favorites again is something that like, anytime you open up a new tab in Safari you'll see little icons for all of your favorited sites there.

- And I'm gonna put you on the spot a little bit because I don't know if you are clear on this. I'm a little bit unclear on the difference between a Favorite and a Bookmark. Are you, do you understand the difference?

- So, I think that bookmarks automatically go to your favorites unless you've set up other bookmark folders. So that's sort of the difference, like if you, and I know and it is a little bit confusing the way Apple has had an app for a long time I couldn't figure out how to add things to my Favorites when I wanted them there. But at least on your Mac, it's a little bit different but at least from your iPhone if you don't have any other folders set up in bookmarks it'll just automatically save it to your favorites. So there is no difference.

- But if you've created different bookmark folders like say you wanna have your bookmarks for work and you wanna have your bookmarks for, you know, a side project or something like that you might create different folders for them and save them there. And so then when you tap, Add Bookmark in that situation then you'll choose which folder to put it to. So you can choose favorites or something else.

- So just to clarify Favorites is a type of bookmark?

- Favorites is like the default Bookmark folder.

- It's a thank you, perfect, okay. And I actually do do folders for my bookmarks. So I am one of those people where I have this exact set up, I have my work bookmarks, I have my personal bookmarks. And then I have my favorites, which are all work bookmarks but they're the ones I use like every single day. So I have--

- That set up and I have it set up across my Safari and both my desktop and my phone. So let me give a quick how to do that.

- Yeah, the syncing of it I was gonna say like, that's happening for me but I don't remember ever setting that up.

- So please explain.

- Okay, I think by default it's turned on. So I think it's probably for most people but I had accidentally turned it off. What you need to do is you need to make sure that you go into iCloud in that you have Safari turned on for iCloud. I had turned it off at some point thinking it was unnecessary but what it does is it syncs up all of your bookmarks. So that you can have your desktop bookmarks on your computer and vice versa or on mobile and your mobile bookmarks on your computer. So that they're all synced up. And so it's a really convenient thing. Also on desktop now, Safari, the newest feature this is what you were just talking about, on the kind of the default screen. It has all of your favorites and it has recently accessed, so you can see pages you were looking at on your phone, it has those on your computer so it's easy to get to them. So they just added this with the latest Operating System. And I think it's a really nice feature but I do want to give one final bonus tip which is you can customize this screen on Safari on your computer. So on the bottom right corner, you have a little like, it kind of looks like slider gear things. So you open up Safari, you open up a new tab. So it'll be your start page, is what it's called. And then on the bottom right corner, it gives you the options of what will show up and what will not show up. So for example, I have added a of me and my wife. And so every time I open up a new tab, I see a pretty photo of me and my wife. Also, I don't use the reading list. So I got rid of that as an option that shows up. And also some people, depending on your browsing habits you may have stuff you browse at work and stuff you browse at home. And you don't want the stuff you browse at home to show up at work and vice versa. So this gives you some controls over what shows up where. I find I'm sharing my screen a lot at work. So I pay special attention to like what is showing up where. But I think, you know, we've sort of gone into the weeds of Safari power usage here, but I think this area of cross syncing between desktop and mobile and using Safari to kind of bridge those gaps is a really powerful area to pay some attention to.

- I know as you're talking about this, David I just changed my Safari Start page background image

- To something much more appealing so thank you for that tip.

- What is it?

- It's still one of the Apple's defaults. So if you hit the little Plus icon there like next to the backgrounds you'll have a bunch of different options from Apple. So I didn't go ahead and choose one of my own photos yet but it's still nice to switch it up. Apple has some pretty kind of like illustrations and stuff like that.

- It's honestly I've enjoyed it more than I thought I would. 'Cause I ended up looking at that screen like a 100 times a day. 'Cause I'm always--

- On Safari for work. I'm always opening a new tab and before I enter the URL, it loads the Start page. And like the default is just gray. And so just having a fun photo it like a little thing, but I like it. It makes my day a little bit better.

- Yeah, I like the Safari Start page too. Okay, for people listening, I hope that everyone does create their own favorites and stuff too. 'Cause it's so, I use it every day to get to the links I need to get to. It's really convenient.

- Yeah and same with taking the time to customize your bookmarks. Pages you visit every day having them easily accessible is really worth it.

- It's very, yeah, totally.

- Another little tip I have is even within a website to thinking through which page you're bookmarking. So for example, I'll give you example for Insiders. Like the default website you go to is Insider.iPhonelife.com and then on the top right corner, you click Log in but you could bookmark the Login page which is the next step. And it just saves you one little thing each day. So little things like that of like which page within a website you're bookmarking saves you time.

- Yeah, it goes a long way. All right, next up I want to talk to you about iPhone Life Insider. David just mentioned it. But this is our premium subscription for people who really wanna master their Apple devices. And so we have video guides for you on all of the new features and devices as they come out. That's like step-by-step video tutorials accompanied by a downloadable PDF. So you can be on your device and watch along and also have a written reference which makes it really easy to learn. We have quarterly online live courses. This is where you have a live instructor leading you through a new feature or product, and you can ask your questions live and we have weekly assignments. It's just a great format that helps keep you on track and accountable. We also have daily video tips. So it's a video version of our daily tip, just a one-minute video teaching you something cool you can do with your iPhone every day. We also have Ask an Expert, which is a feature where if you're having a tech issue, you can contact us and get a guaranteed answer and we help you find solutions. And you get an ad-free version of this podcast with bonus content from me and David. So there's a lot of amazing content with Insider plus a digital subscription to "iPhone Life Magazine" including our full archive of over 30 past issues. So if you go to iPhone life.com/podcastdiscount we have a special deal just for you. I believe, is it $10 off, $5 off David I'm really forgetting?

- It's 10% off.

- 10% off, there you go. So, it's a special discount just for our podcast listeners. Go to iPhone life.com/podcastdiscount to sign up right now. And we just came out with a new video guide on the iPhone Pro camera. So that includes tips on how to use the Pro Raw format if you have the 12 Pro or Pro Max. It also has a Portrait mode and Night mode tips for anyone else with a Pro camera plus photo editing tips for anyone with an iPhone at all. So iPhonelife.com/podcast discount if you want to get in on all of those great things. And I wanted to share an Insider question with you all actually I've two. They're kind of short one. So I thought I would do two today. But our Insiders, as I mentioned they use Ask an Expert to ask their questions to us and we give them solutions. So here's some ones that I thought our listeners might find useful. Here we go, the first one, is there a simple way to add text to a photo? And this is an easy one to answer. Thanks for reaching out. If you would like to add text to a photo you can use markup. So when you open the Photos app, go to the photo that you wanna add text to, tap Edit and then there's three dots in the top right corner, you'll tap that then tap Markup. And from there, there's a few tools that you can add arrows, for instance to your photo, you can add the little text icon and you can type in text and change the color of it. And you use your fingers to move it around and change the size of it on the Display. And that's it. And so from there, once you tap Save you'll have a marked up version of that image that you can then share with whoever you want. David, do you use markup often?

- I use it a lot. I use it more, less for texts and more for drawing. Where I end up using it the most is we kind of talked about this recently with screenshots. Where if I'll take a screenshot of something but I wanna point out something particular on that page. I will then like draw little arrows in red and circle the area. It happens a lot, I don't know why it happens to me so much that I'm trying to like circle things on screenshots but I am and I use it a lot. How about you?

- Is it usually like screenshots of something that you're like making fun of?

- I don't know

- I was gonna say, that's it for me usually at least screenshots that get sent to me it's either have a conversation or something on social media and pointing out what was funny about it.

- Yeah, that's true I guess I do do that. I also do it for work a lot though. Like, I'll be like "This thing isn't working on the website. "Here's a screenshot of what I'm saying."

- Right, yeah and that's much more professional use for it. But you know, I feel like one thing that I've used markup for that's been useful is adding signatures to things.

- Yes and I was just gonna say that's a really useful thing as well is that you to add signatures from mobile. Sometimes I'll literally deliberately open up an email on mobile just 'cause it's really quick and easy to add a signature to it.

- Yeah, and so a little tip with that is that you only need to enter in your signature once and then it's saved. To through markup so you can go back in and just add it to things. So if you wanted your signature to look particularly good you could go to your iPad on the same, if you have an iPad, if it's a device that's logged in with your same Apple ID and you could create your signature using an Apple Pencil, if you have one. And so presumably it'll be a nicer looking signature and then that'll be saved to your iPhone too. And you can use that through Markup, which is nice.

- One other while we're I think on a Mac tip kick of this podcast but we are officially covering Mac now as well. You can add--

- I want all the Mac tips.

- You can add signatures in preview and it's really cool because how it works is you take a piece of paper, you put your actual signature and you hold it up to the camera and it loads it in and it saves it for you in preview. And it's really quick and easy to then go and add signatures to documents within preview. Previews, they're built-in Apple app on desktop that allows you to view photos and PDFs. So it's usually something you would do on a PDF.

- Cool, so we have another Insider question I wanted to share. And this one was about the iPhone camera guide that we recently came out with. So this Insider wrote in, I'm learning with the iPhone Pro camera guide. I took a picture with a black background using Portrait mode and I don't know what light settings I use and I can't do it again and I can't figure it out. Any idea of how to get a black background in Portrait? This was a photo in color. So the answer to this question is that this Insider inadvertently used one of the lighting modes in Portrait mode and just didn't realize it. So you can easily replicate this effect since it sounds like this Insider likes the way that it looked and it's stage lighting. Is the setting that they used. So if you go into the Camera app and you can apply this before or after you take a Portrait photo, which is really cool. So if you open the Camera app and you go to Portrait mode, you'll see in the top right corner, there's your little F icon. And that's where you go, if you tap that, you can go and like adjust the level of depth of field effect you have which means you can choose your subject of course and then you'll choose how much is blurred behind the subject. And like, that's really nice for instance to adjust manually if the person has like wispy hair or something like that you can make sure that it's not completely blurring out the hair in a way that doesn't look good. So once you're there though above where you adjust the depth of field you can also adjust the lighting modes. By default it'll be a natural lighting. So pretty much just like looking the way it actually looks when you're shooting. And then from there you can swipe right and left and go into a few different cool effects. Like there's stage lighting, stage light mono, and some of these ones will pretty much either just completely turn the background white or black. I personally like more natural looking photos. So I haven't done this a lot myself but it's good to know that this feature is there. It's fun to play with.

- Yeah, I was just gonna comment. I was gonna ask you if you use it. It's funny to me too, that your comment was for wispy hair. 'Cause I have curly hair, which for Portrait mode in general is a nightmare. And in particular, the portrait mode settings that turn the background a different color like white or black, just really I struggle with because it like just never perfectly gets my hair. And so it just like weirdly cropped parts of my head are just blending with a background in black. So I almost never use it if you on rare occasion that it works perfectly. It's a really cool effect. It just so frequently doesn't work for me that I find I don't use it enough. But just to re-emphasize, 'cause you did say it but you went over it pretty quickly, for those of you with curly hair or I guess a wispy hair. And if you are using Portrait mode but you're having trouble because your hair keeps getting cropped. If you go after you take the photo and hit Edit you can adjust the aperture and that how that works is it just makes the Portrait mode a little bit less intense and so therefore it'll, like a lot of times for me, not crop out my hair.

- Yeah, but with the ability to adjust it you've been able to get around that. Like it looks good now

- Yes, but more on natural mode. I almost never could.

- It just has to be so perfectly distinguishing between your background and your foreground. If you actually change the color of the background that I almost never do it because it just rarely works. Also, I just don't tend to love the effect to be honest.

- Right. Yeah, but I thought that was a fun like at first when I heard the question I'd forgotten about these effects I'm like, "How did this person "Get a black background?" But, so I thought that was a good one to share.

- But yeah one thing I wanted to clarify, as I said, that you can adjust your portrait light settings either in Capture mode or after the effect. You can only add it after the effect if it was shot in Portrait mode though.

- So I just wanted to clarify that. So if you were in like regular photo mode you can't turn it into a portrait photo afterwards but if it was shot in Portrait mode you can adjust those settings after the fact, which is nice. So I think like that's nice 'cause a lot of times you wanna quickly capture a photo. You might not want to be like tinkering with the editing with the aperture at the time that you can do that later.

- All right, so that wraps up our Ask an Expert section of this podcast. And I am excited to share an app with all of you today. So for our Apps and Gear section, I have an app today. What about you?

- Yeah, I have an app and a gear but I'm seeing in our notes here we have a comment from our listener.

- Oh yeah, I forgot about that. So this was when I wanted to basically call out myself here because Randy wrote in and was concerned about an editor's message I wrote in the Daily Tip. And in it I was talking about our new AirPods guide and how great it was and how I love my AirPods and how my husband and I go on bike rides. And I sync our AirPods to the same iPhone so we can listen to music together. So he responded to me here. He says, "First of all, I've been an iPhone lifer "For about a year and want you and your staff to know "That I use and enjoy all aspects of iPhone life." That's great to hear.

- Thank you.

- "I typically ignore tips and articles dealing "With AirPods or earbuds. "They simply will not stay in my ears." He likes his Bose noise canceling headphones instead. That was an interesting one to hear just 'cause that's kind of a first that I've heard of that 'cause the people that I know that have AirPods comfort and like their kind of strange ability to stay in your ears is pretty great. But again, like with headphones everyone has to try themselves. Everyone has really different, first of all shapes of their ears and head and also like things that are comfortable for them.

- So I always people definitely try on headphones yourself or earbuds before buying. But so anyway, he says, "However a tip caught my eye "This morning about AirPods. "In the introduction you said that you and your husband "Sync your phones and when you're riding your bike together, "I am an avid although recreational cyclist "And wanted to make sure you're aware that wearing any kind "Of earbuds while cycling is a big no-no." "The reason is that it prevents one from hearing "Road noise and traffic. "I don't mean any disrespect "It's intended as purely informational. "Thanks for all you do," Randy. So I just wanted to point that out just because I hope I'm not encouraging people to go biking with earbuds and definitely if you're on the street could be dangerous and you know the AirPods do have a Transparency mode option which lets you hear street noise through so that can help or you could be wearing like one AirPod and that helps a little bit too but I think it is a good point just to mention that probably better to not wear any at all or to make sure that you have that Transparency mode on at the least.

- But I mean, absolutely traffic safety is important. It is a cool feature though. And there are lots of use cases that are not dangerous. That's something that I will often do like while traveling my partner and I will watch a movie or something like that. And you can have two headphones on the same device. And so there are really cool features. And Transparency mode is a good one 'cause I do like to, now I'm gonna admit it too. I like to run with headphones and I'm very safe. I promise I do my best but Transparency mode's a good one where, 'cause I actually this is one of the main reasons I like AirPods as opposed to AirPods Pro. Is I actually really like having ambient noise be able to get in. Both 'cause I like to work out with them but also even like I'll wear them when I'm working throughout the day, things like that. And it's just really nice to be able to hear somebody even if I have headphones in if I want to be canceling noise, I'll use my big headphones.

- Yeah, that's a good way to do it. I think that, yeah, that feature I will stand by is being cooled. Like just, I thought first you were talking about Transparency mode, which is great too. But being able to sync two AirPods at the same iPhone is a lot of fun.

- And like you could be cycling on an indoor bike and then you can do it completely, but guilt-free.

- As long as you're taking proper COVID precautions. No.

- Yeah, Yes. All right, unto our apps and gear section. So I wanted to share an app just because I feel like roosters are plaguing my life and I've finally found an app that's saving me. So I moved to Florida four months ago and then we have a next door neighbor with roosters that start crowing at like two in the morning.

- Oh my gosh.

- And then when I was on vacation in Mexico the place that we were staying was basically like there was like a barnyard outside. It was like a million roosters and goats and dogs that started at like 10:30 at night. So anyway, it became very clear that I needed a good White Noise machine app. In Florida, we actually have like a little device for it. It's not through the iPhone, that works well. But I found an app that I liked just as much and I had to try a few. So I just wanted to recommend this one because it's the one that I found to be the best. And it's my noise. And the cool thing about it, is that it's a free app. Some of the other ones I've found are paid and it lets you customize your White Noise levels. Like both to just what you like and also different like depending on your iPhone model the speakers sound a little different. And so it like has a bunch of different toggles for different levels of noise. I use the classic White Noise, but there are other options like rain sounds or stuff like that. And, it lets you set a timer. So I like to have it like fade out in the last hour of sleep. And so I set it for like seven, eight hours total but the last hour it's like slowly fading out--

- Oh interesting.

- Up until when my alarm goes off. And so they're just like, it has some nice features and also strangely other apps that I use even though they said they could go all night with like randomly shut off after a half hour and things like that. And this one was reliably playing all night long. I feel like White Noise machine apps or just in general are like not for everyone but I used to not like them very much 'cause I found them kind of distracting. But now I'm hooked. Dave have you ever tried White Noise?

- I have not, I'm a very light sleeper and I find that White Noise distraction. Like I don't even like having a fan on in my room which I know is like, I'm extreme in that way but I'm not a White Noise.

- So this app, I was gonna say I was sensing a lack of excitement from you.

- I was like, my stepson uses White Noise machine in his room. And so when we travel, then this would be great. So I appreciate that. I still love White Noise people, I just am not one of them.

- For me, I really don't like one of the common White Noise options is like wave sounds and those to me and maybe it's 'cause we didn't grow up around the ocean. I don't find that to like help me sleep at all. And like makes me feel like I'm like seasick or something but lane noise or White Noise health.

- That's fair, yeah, those Iowan thunderstorms.

- I like when I'm sleeping by the ocean, I really enjoy it. But I find, I often have dreams about the ocean, so yeah, it can be distracting. Okay, I've got--

- Hey what's your apps and gear?

- And I just wanna preface this because we've steered clear of travel apps and gear because of COVID. But as between the like frustratingly high percentage of people who have now had COVID and have immunity and then people have vaccinations rates are going up we're gonna start covering it a little bit for you all. And so I have a couple suggestions for travel again. And even if you're not ready to travel yet it's still fun to be thinking about those days when you can do that. Again, one of them, my first one is for can be used at home as well. I've talked about it before, but it's one of those gadgets that I just don't think a lot of people have and I love it and it makes my life a lot better. And that's my charge battery pack. The company's myCharge M-Y and then charge. It's all one word. And I know there's a ton of battery packs on the market but this one to me kind of checks all the boxes and why I love it is number one, it has both the adapter and the cable built in. So you can plug into the wall and has the capability in all-in-one unit. Most of these power banks do not have that. They either don't have a cable built in or they don't have the adapter built in. So then you're having to carry a bunch of things to use it. Number two, it rapid charges. So it's like half an hour to charge your phone. And in particular for a battery pack, that's really nice. 'Cause you're almost always on the go. I find I actually use it at home a lot. I mean, I definitely use it while traveling, but I use it at home a lot because if my phones, I just need a little bit of battery before I leave the house, but I'm like walking in the house and I need to use my phone at the same time. This is a really excellent solution for that. So I really like it. It also has a USB C built in. So if you have an Android iPhone family, you can use that. My partner and I are always fighting over it. So that's a good sign for seeing a useful device and particularly

- it's a very good sign.

- Tried the other one, which is pretty unique just for traveling, especially for overseas. But I think it's another one where like a lot of people don't think to get this, but it's really useful. It's called OANDA currency conversion. So it's O-A-N-D-A currency conversion. And there's a million currency conversion apps out there but I've used this one for like 10 years and it's like never failed me. What's nice about it? It has a really easy to use interface and it doesn't require internet. So once you get your currency conversions loaded up in there, it doesn't need internet to use. So when you're traveling in a foreign country and you're trying to on the fly, negotiate something and it's in a currency, you're not used to being able to quickly pull it up on your phone and look at the conversion rate to your currency, U.S dollars or whatever it is I find it to be really useful. I've used it for years. So for those of you who are in coming up, gonna do an international trip that's a really awesome app for you. And it's free, I believe.

- I was gonna say, yeah, I wish I knew about this app that sounds great. 'Cause I'm so like not good at like fast calculations on the flight. "I'm like, how much is that?"

- Something like this would be useful.

- I always try to build little like rules of thumb for myself. Like being like 100 pesos is one is $5 and little things like that that I can fall back on. But then it's like, if you're doing too many of those you lose track and it's nice to have an app to fall back on as well.

- For sure and offline mode is like if you're doing international travel I feel like any app you're using having an offline mode is really important

- Yeah, yeah.

- Since you don't always reliably have service, yeah, cool. We have not come up with a question of the week ahead of time, but I feel like we should. We could do one about portrait mode. I'm curious if people use the different portrait lighting options. And if so, which ones they like the best.

- Yeah, I can send you some examples and we can put it up on our website.

- Yeah and if you have some shots you're proud of send them our way. So email [email protected], letting us know if you use portrait lighting options. And if so, which ones and why, and this wraps up our 154th episode of the iPhone Life Podcast. We've been at this for a while, stick around. If you're an Insider we have some special content just for you. Otherwise we'll be back in two weeks. Thanks everyone.

- Thanks everyone.

- All right, Insiders. We have our special complaints and learning section for you. And I wanted to talk about some of our latest content for all of you to make sure that you are aware of all the benefits that come when you log into Insider. So our senior video producer Rahn Taylor just updated our iPhone Pro Camera Guide. She'd originally done one for the 11 Pro and now has updated it with videos for Prora which is we've been getting a lot of questions from all of you about Prora and how to use it, whether you should use it. And so I highly recommend checking that out. If you're wanting to like up your professional photography game or just are curious about it, you can watch that video and get all the information you need. Also, she goes into a lot of the new night mode settings. You can take a time-lapse video now in night mode. If you have one of the latest Pro cameras, there is more that you can do with portrait mode than before. So I highly recommend checking that out. Rahn always does such an awesome job with the video guides. Also, I think we already mentioned last episode but recently Nicholas, one of our video guide producers did an Airpods Guide that we've also been getting a lot of good feedback about. So make sure to check that out. We also have the spring issue of iPhone Life Magazine when you log into Insider that came out pretty recently. So if you log in navigate to magazine you'll see the full archive of issues and the latest issue which is the iOS 14 guide. We also have a lot of good hands-on reviews in there. We talk about the M one max I wrote about the home pod mini. So that's always a good thing to check out too. So that's my little just update for what's new on Insider.

- Also one other plug, if you are one of those people that mostly accesses Insider from your email, when we email you go log in because we've actually been working really hard to redesign it, it looks so nice. Now we've really tried to make it really both visually appealing, modern and easy to use. So we've been working hard on that this year. We've got a lot of additional updates coming soon in that front in terms of just the user interface but we're working hard on it. So I wanna brag a little bit.

- Yes, oh, and I did want to mention too that we've updated our Ask an Expert section as well. Like we have a short questionnaire that just helps us identify like what phone you have and things like that. We did have a bit of a bug for a couple of weeks with that. And so if you send a question and it didn't go through, please resubmit now 'cause we got that resolved. And I just want to apologize to anyone who did have issues with their questions going through.

- And to be clear, I don't know if you know if it went through or not. If you submitted a question that we did not answer it we're really sorry.

- We are really committed to answering questions in a timely manner. Now we've grown our team a lot and we have a lot of people on this. So if in the past that's ever happened to you we are now totally up to speed and we will be able to answer your questions. So make sure you go, re-ask your questions.

- Yeah, thank you all for your patience. So for our complaints and learning section I wanted to talk about adding people to the photos app. That's something that I hadn't really gotten that into for some reason until recently. And this is a feature that I use a lot of times if it's like a friend's birthday or something like that I like to go and look through all the photos that I have of that person and maybe share some on social media. My parents have used this to make photo books of people they didn't use Apple to make the photo books but they still used it as a way to sort the photos of my niece and nephew, making little books about them. So it's nice basically just to find a way to see all the photos you have of a specific person. And so if you go into the photos app anytime that you have a photo with a person in it at least that's like big enough for Apple's algorithms to identify. If you swipe up on that photo just opening up one to make sure I'm getting this right. If you will see a little section that says people and it will have the faces of the people there and you can go in and if it's an unidentified person, you can add the name. And if it's a person that is identified, it'll if you tap their little card it'll take you to all the photos you have there. And I just wanted to talk about the fact that anytime you go and look at a person, if you haven't done this already you'll have the option usually to confirm additional photos. If it's someone you have a lot of photos of and I just wanted to recommend going in and doing that 'cause it really improves this feature a lot 'cause usually Apple's first pass at this they're missing a lot of the photos there. So you wanna tap, confirm additional photos and it'll bring up a grid of extra photos that you can go through and say like, yes this is the person and or no, this isn't the person. And so I've been doing that. Yeah, that way then like quickly was able to see all the photos I have of my friend whose birthday is today and decide which ones I wanna share on social media. And it just makes it super convenient. Is this a feature you use?

- I use it all the time and I was actually gonna mention but that'd be the confirm additional photos is really useful 'cause Apple doesn't get them all. And a lot of times, if I'm looking for a photo it won't be there unless I've gone through and done this a few times and you're sorta just training their AI is what you're doing. And then one other tip on this front that you can do is you can layer your searches. So once you have a name in there, you could say like photos of Donna in Fairfield or something like that. And then you can really like find very specific photos if that's what you're looking for as well.

- Yeah, that's a good one.

- Okay, so I have a cool tip that I discovered. And so it happened because I was noticing my battery was draining on my iPhone which unfortunately seems to be a reoccurring trend. And I was seeing that Instagram was often my biggest culprit. And when I looked, it's had a lot of background activity which was driving me crazy because that's I have background app refresh turned off which is a good thing to do. That's I guess one good tip go into Settings and make sure background app refresh is turned off because that is something that frequently drains batteries. And what background app refresh is is it basically keeps your apps up to date in the background. And so Facebook and Instagram are actually big culprits of this, where when you open it it will already all of the updated content loaded for you. But it's a big battery hog and a big data hog as well to be doing that. So I have that turned off by default, but nonetheless it was background activity that was causing it. And then I discovered that there's this little known feature, at least I didn't know about it in Instagram that you can toggle on called, I can't remember what's called. It's like you low data mode. And basically it says use less data. And so that's a really cool feature 'cause not only does that, if you're traveling or if you're somebody who doesn't have a lot of data it'll use less data. It also simultaneously by using less data, uses less battery it just updates your app less frequently in the background. So if you go, I'll see if I can reverse engineer, how to get there. You go, you open up your Instagram app and on the bottom right corner, you tap your little profile. And then on the top right corner you hit the little three lines. When we called the hamburger menu that should bring up all of your Settings here. And then on the top it says Settings. And then it goes, you do let me find it here from there you go to, I think Account. Yep, you go to Account and then there should be it should be right in here. So I should have had this--

- I'm following along.

- Okay, so your data use under account and use less data. You toggle that on and it uses less battery and less data. And it, I'm not somebody that needs everything updated in the background for me. So that's been a really cool feature.

- Oh, I feel like this could be totally like a life-changing little hack, that's awesome.

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Safari, Apple's widely used web browser, offers a seamless and intuitive browsing experience for its users. One of the key features that users often customize is the browser's home page. The home page serves as the starting point for your browsing journey, providing quick access to your favorite websites, search engines, or personalized content. Whether you're looking to streamline your browsing experience or simply want to set a specific website as your default landing page, Safari allows you to effortlessly tailor this aspect to suit your preferences.

In this article, we'll delve into the process of changing the home page in Safari, exploring the various options available to users. Whether you're using Safari on a Mac, iPhone, or iPad, the steps for customizing the home page are designed to be user-friendly and adaptable to different devices. By the end of this guide, you'll have a comprehensive understanding of how to modify your Safari home page to align with your browsing habits and preferences.

Let's embark on this journey to unlock the potential of Safari's home page customization, empowering you to curate a browsing experience that resonates with your unique needs and interests.

Accessing Safari Preferences

Accessing Safari Preferences is the initial step towards customizing your browsing experience, including setting a new home page. Whether you're using a Mac, iPhone, or iPad, the process of accessing Safari Preferences remains consistent, ensuring a seamless user experience across different devices.

• Launch Safari on your Mac.
• In the top-left corner of the screen, click on "Safari" in the menu bar. A drop-down menu will appear.
• From the drop-down menu, select "Preferences." Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut "Command + ," to directly access the Preferences window.

On iPhone or iPad:

• Open the "Settings" app on your iPhone or iPad.
• Scroll down and tap on "Safari" from the list of available apps.
• Within the Safari settings, you can access various customization options, including the ability to change the home page.

Upon accessing Safari Preferences, you gain access to a plethora of customization options, allowing you to tailor your browsing environment to suit your preferences. This includes modifying the home page, managing extensions, adjusting privacy settings, and much more. The intuitive layout of the Preferences window ensures that users can effortlessly navigate through the available options, empowering them to personalize their browsing experience with ease.

By familiarizing yourself with the process of accessing Safari Preferences, you pave the way for seamless customization, enabling you to harness the full potential of Safari's features and adapt them to your unique browsing habits and preferences.

Changing Home Page

Once you have accessed Safari Preferences, the next step is to navigate to the section dedicated to changing the home page. This pivotal customization option empowers you to redefine your browsing experience by setting a new default landing page that aligns with your preferences.

Open Safari Preferences : After accessing Safari Preferences using the aforementioned steps, click on the "General" tab. Here, you will find the option to set your home page.

Choose a New Home Page : In the "Homepage" section, you can opt for one of the predefined options, such as "Favorites," "Top Sites," or "Empty Page." Selecting "Favorites" allows you to set a specific folder of bookmarks as your home page, providing quick access to your preferred websites. Alternatively, you can choose "Top Sites" to display a grid of frequently visited websites upon launching Safari. If you prefer a minimalist approach, selecting "Empty Page" ensures a clean slate every time you open the browser .

Access Safari Settings : After opening the "Settings" app and selecting "Safari," you will find the "Homepage" option within the Safari settings.

Customize Your Home Page : Similar to the Mac version, you can choose between "Favorites," "Top Sites," or "Empty Page" to define your home page. This seamless customization process ensures that your browsing experience remains consistent across different Apple devices.

By following these straightforward steps, you can effortlessly change the home page in Safari, tailoring it to suit your browsing habits and preferences. Whether you prefer a visually dynamic start page with frequently visited sites or a minimalist, clutter-free interface, Safari's flexibility allows you to curate a personalized browsing environment that resonates with your unique needs.

This level of customization empowers users to craft a browsing experience that seamlessly integrates with their digital lifestyle, ensuring that every browsing session begins on a familiar and personalized note. With the ability to change the home page in Safari, users can take control of their browsing journey, optimizing it to align with their preferences and habits.

Setting a Custom Home Page

Setting a custom home page in Safari allows you to personalize your browsing experience by designating a specific website as your default landing page. This tailored approach ensures that every time you launch Safari, you are greeted with a familiar and preferred website, streamlining your browsing journey. Whether it's a news portal, a productivity tool, or an entertainment hub, the ability to set a custom home page empowers you to curate a browsing environment that resonates with your unique interests and needs.

Enter the URL : In the "Homepage" section, select "Enter custom web address" and input the URL of the website you wish to set as your home page. This could be a news website, a search engine, or any other site that you frequently visit and want to see upon launching Safari.

Customize Your Home Page : Similar to the Mac version, you can choose "Enter custom web address" and input the URL of your preferred website. This seamless customization process ensures that your browsing experience remains consistent across different Apple devices.

By setting a custom home page, you infuse your browsing experience with a personal touch, ensuring that your digital journey begins with a website that holds significance to you. Whether it's a source of inspiration, a go-to resource, or a platform that aligns with your interests, the custom home page feature allows you to seamlessly integrate your browsing habits into Safari, creating a tailored and familiar starting point for your online endeavors.

This level of customization not only enhances convenience but also reflects the essence of personalization that is integral to the modern digital experience. With a custom home page, Safari becomes an extension of your digital identity, offering a familiar and curated entry point into the vast expanse of the internet. This simple yet impactful customization option underscores the user-centric approach that defines Safari, empowering users to shape their browsing environment in alignment with their preferences and habits.

In conclusion, the ability to change and set a custom home page in Safari represents a pivotal aspect of personalizing the browsing experience across various Apple devices. By navigating through Safari Preferences and accessing the dedicated home page settings, users can seamlessly tailor their browsing environment to align with their unique preferences and habits.

The process of changing the home page in Safari, whether on a Mac, iPhone, or iPad, is designed to be intuitive and user-friendly, ensuring that users can effortlessly redefine their default landing page. Whether opting for a minimalist approach with an empty page, showcasing frequently visited sites with the Top Sites option, or designating a specific website as the custom home page, Safari offers a diverse range of options to cater to individual preferences.

Setting a custom home page further amplifies the personalization aspect, allowing users to designate a website that holds significance to them as the default landing page. This tailored approach infuses the browsing experience with a sense of familiarity and relevance, ensuring that every browsing session commences on a personalized note.

The flexibility and adaptability of Safari's home page customization options underscore Apple's commitment to empowering users to shape their digital environment according to their preferences. Whether it's staying updated with the latest news, accessing productivity tools, or immersing in favorite content, the custom home page feature reflects the essence of user-centric design, placing the user's browsing habits and interests at the forefront.

By embracing the customization options offered by Safari, users can curate a browsing experience that seamlessly integrates with their digital lifestyle, ensuring that every browsing session begins on a familiar and personalized note. This level of control and personalization not only enhances convenience but also reflects the essence of modern digital experiences, where individual preferences and habits are central to the browsing journey.

In essence, the ability to change and set a custom home page in Safari transcends mere customization; it embodies the ethos of personalization, empowering users to craft a browsing environment that resonates with their unique needs and interests. As users continue to navigate the digital landscape, Safari's home page customization options stand as a testament to Apple's dedication to delivering a personalized and user-centric browsing experience.

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Change Safari Homepage On iPhone, iPad & Mac

W hile you may not think much about what your Homepage is on Safari, this can be the handiest way to see your favorite site first. Every time you open Safari, you can visit the website you like most right off the bat or when you hit your Home button.

To make sure you get to your favorite website quickly each day, here’s how to change your Safari Homepage on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

Change your Safari Homepage on iPhone and iPad

Things are currently not as simple on iOS as they are on Mac. There isn’t a setting for Homepage in Safari on iPhone and iPad. But there is a workaround you can use to always open Safari with your favorite page. You’ll do this by creating a shortcut on your Home screen and here’s how.

Step 1.  Open  Safari  on iPhone or iPad and go to the site you want to use.

Step 2.  Tap the  Share  button at the bottom.

Step 3.  Select  Add to Home Screen .

Step 4.   Name  your shortcut and tap  Add .

Now, whenever you want to open Safari to that “ Homepage ,” just tap your shortcut.

Note : If a website you use opens in a reader or mobile mode, you may not see your normal Safari options (tabs, bookmarks, etc.). So, use the desktop version of the site instead. Before performing the steps above select  Share button  >  Request Desktop Site . Then, follow the instructions to add it to your Home screen.

Change your Safari Homepage on Mac

Open  Safari  on your Mac and then follow these steps to change your Homepage.

Step 1.  Click  Safari  >  Preferences  from the menu bar.

Step 2. Choose the  General  tab.

Step 3.  In the box next to  Homepage , enter the  URL  of the website you want. If you are currently on that site, just click the  Set Current Page  button. This will change that URL for you.

Set your Homepage for new windows and tabs

By making that change above, each time you click the Home button on your toolbar or  History >  Home  from the menu bar, you’ll land on that page. But you can set it up so that whenever you open a new Safari window or tab, you’ll go directly to that page too.

In the same Safari Preferences window, above  Homepage , you’ll see the options for  New windows open with  and  New tabs open with . You can click the drop-down box and choose  Homepage  for both or just one.

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Tip: Change home page in Safari on your iPhone, iPad and Mac

Do you want to start with the same website, such as Google or iPhone, every time you open Safari? Which can. This is how you change the homepage on your iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Set Safari home page

Unfortunately, it is not possible to set a launch website for Safari in the default way on iOS. However, you can achieve a similar result through a trick. How to change the Safari homepage on iPhone and iPad:

• Open Safari on your iPad or iPhone and go to the website you want to set as your homepage;
• Tap the share button at the bottom of the screen;
• Choose ‘Add to home screen’, give the shortcut a name and press ‘Add’ at the top right;
• If you want Safari to open this website first, tap the shortcut you just created.

Does the home page open unwanted in Reader view? Then force Safari to grab the desktop website by hitting the share button in step 1 and tapping ‘Ask for desktop site’ first. Then follow the rest of the directions.

Safari homepage change on macOS

It is possible to adjust a start page on your Mac. You just have to dive into the settings here. This is how you adjust the Safari homepage:

• Open Safari and choose ‘Preferences’ from the menu bar;
• Choose ‘General’ and enter the address of the desired homepage next to ‘Homepage’;
• Then select ‘Safari opens with’ and ‘New windows open with’ for the newly created homepage.

Whenever you open Safari for the first time or create a new tab, you will see your home page. Of course you can also tap only one of the two options.

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Lagging iphone apple experts recommend changing these 4 settings, june 19, 2024 by lisa cupido, shefinds | homepage.

Your phone is lagging. It won’t run efficiently, won’t download apps quickly, and takes forever and a day to save files. It’s possible the problem isn’t the phone itself — it’s that some of its settings are holding it back from being its best self (seriously). In most cases, it takes little more than a little bit of whipping your phone’s settings into shape to get it on the right track.

If you take 5-10 minutes of your day right now and change these four settings, it may pay off big-time when it comes to your phone’s speed and efficiency. If you have a lagging iPhone, Apple experts recommend changing these four settings.

Background App Refresh

Of course, Background App Refresh is slowing your phone down — its entire job is to update all of your apps, all of the time, so that you needn’t wait seconds to get fresh material when you open an app. But the reality is: Background App Refresh is a nice-to-have feature, and not a necessary one. In the process of making life more convenient for you, it is taking up tons of battery.

Disable it by going to Settings > General > Background App Refresh.

Clear Safari’s Cache

When you constantly browse on Safari without clearing the cache, it acquires mountains of data that kind of just sits there — which can slow down your phone. Go to Settings > Safari > Clear History and Website Data and clear your cache once and for all. (Then remember to do it every few weeks).

Brightness Settings

We’re not sure who needs to hear this, but your phone is probably too bright right now. Sure, it looks great — but a too-bright screen can really take up your battery and zap it down to 0 percent fast. Plus, it’s likely you can live just fine with a less-bright screen, once you get used to it. Adjust your brightness by going to Settings > Display & Brightness.

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A lack of storage space can be the number one culprit behind a slow phone. The first setting you’ll need to visit is the one that can shed light on which apps are taking up the most storage. Go to Settings > General > [Device] Storage. Scroll down to see which apps, listed in order, are taking up the most storage. From there you can decide if it’s worth it to delete a certain social media app taking up tons of space or adjust settings on other apps so that they take up less space.

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How To Change Your Homepage In Safari

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Reasons to Change Your Homepage in Safari

When you open your Safari browser, the first thing you see is your homepage. It serves as your gateway to the web, providing quick access to your favorite websites and information. But what if you’re not satisfied with your current homepage? Here are some compelling reasons to consider changing it:

• Personalization: Your homepage should reflect your interests and needs. By customizing it, you can have easy access to the sites that matter most to you.
• Productivity: Setting a homepage that boosts your productivity can be a game-changer. You can choose a homepage that displays your to-do list, calendar, or a website with informative articles.
• Speed: Changing your homepage to a lightweight and fast-loading website can significantly improve your browsing experience. A clutter-free homepage will load quickly, allowing you to access the web in an instant.
• Inspiration: Your homepage can be a source of inspiration. By changing it to a website that showcases stunning photography, thought-provoking quotes, or captivating artwork, you can start your browsing sessions with a dose of creativity.
• Security: If you’re concerned about online security and privacy, setting your homepage to a trusted search engine or a security-focused website can help ensure a safer browsing experience.

Now that you’re aware of the benefits, let’s dive into how you can change your homepage in Safari on various devices.

How to Change Your Homepage in Safari on a Mac

If you’re using Safari on a Mac and want to change your homepage, follow these simple steps:

• Open Safari by clicking on the Safari icon in your dock or by searching for it in Spotlight.
• In the top menu, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences.”
• A new window will appear. Click on the “General” tab.
• In the “Homepage” section, you will see a text field with your current homepage URL. To change it, simply delete the existing URL and replace it with the address of your desired homepage.
• If you prefer to have Safari open with multiple tabs, you can enter the URLs of the websites you want to set as your homepage separated by a comma.
• Click “Set to Current Page” if you want to set the current webpage you’re on as your homepage.
• Once you’ve entered the desired URL(s), close the Preferences window.
• Now, when you open Safari or click the home button, you will be taken to your new homepage.

Changing your homepage on Safari is quick and easy. Take a few moments to customize it to suit your preferences and browsing habits.

How to Change Your Homepage in Safari on an iPhone or iPad

If you’re using Safari on an iPhone or iPad and want to change your homepage, follow these steps:

• Open the “Settings” app on your iPhone or iPad home screen.
• Scroll down and tap on “Safari” in the list of settings.
• In the Safari settings, you’ll find the “General” section. Tap on it.
• Scroll down to find the “Homepage” option and tap on it.
• You will be presented with two options: “Favorites” and “Custom.”
• If you select “Favorites,” your homepage will display the websites you have bookmarked as favorites in Safari.
• If you choose “Custom,” you can enter a specific URL or select a webpage from your browsing history or bookmarks to set as your homepage.
• Tap on the option that suits your preference and exit the settings app.

Now, whenever you open Safari on your iPhone or iPad, it will load your chosen homepage.

Keep in mind that changing your homepage on Safari for iOS devices doesn’t affect the home button on your device. Pressing the home button will take you to the main home screen, not the Safari homepage.

Customizing your Safari homepage on your iPhone or iPad allows you to have quick access to your favorite sites or a specific webpage that you frequently visit, making your browsing experience more efficient and tailored to your needs.

Setting a Homepage to a Specific Website in Safari on Mac

If you have a specific website that you want to set as your homepage in Safari on your Mac, follow these steps:

• Open Safari on your Mac by clicking on the Safari icon in your dock or by searching for it in Spotlight.
• In the “Homepage” section, delete the existing URL and replace it with the specific website’s URL that you want to set as your homepage.
• Once you’ve entered the URL, close the Preferences window.
• Now, whenever you open Safari or click the home button, it will load the specific website you set as your homepage.

Setting a specific website as your homepage in Safari on your Mac can be handy if you want quick and direct access to a particular site you frequently visit or a website that provides useful information.

Remember, you can change your homepage at any time by following the same steps and updating the URL in the Preferences window.

Setting a Homepage to a Specific Website in Safari on iPhone or iPad

If you want to set a specific website as your homepage in Safari on your iPhone or iPad, the steps are slightly different from changing the homepage settings. Here’s how to do it:

• Open Safari on your iPhone or iPad.
• Navigate to the website you want to set as your homepage.
• Tap the “Share” button at the bottom middle of the screen. It looks like a square with an arrow pointing upwards.
• Scroll through the options until you find “Add to Home Screen” and tap on it.
• You can customize the name of the icon that will appear on your home screen, or leave it as is.
• Tap on “Add” in the top right corner of the screen.
• The website will now appear as an icon on your home screen.
• Swipe to another home screen, or press the home button and go back to your main home screen.
• Tap on the newly created icon, and it will launch Safari and load the specific website you set as your homepage.

By setting a specific website as your homepage on Safari for your iPhone or iPad, you can have quick and easy access to that site directly from your home screen. This is especially useful for websites you frequently visit or those that provide valuable information.

If you ever want to change your homepage, simply repeat these steps with a different website.

Tips for Choosing the Perfect Homepage in Safari

Your homepage is the first thing you see when you open Safari, so it’s important to choose one that suits your needs and preferences. Here are some tips to help you select the perfect homepage:

• Consider your interests: Think about the websites that align with your interests and hobbies. Whether it’s news, entertainment, sports, or technology, selecting a homepage that reflects your passions will make your browsing experience more enjoyable.
• Focus on productivity: If you want your homepage to boost your productivity, consider setting it to a website that provides useful tools or resources. This could be a to-do list manager, a calendar, or a productivity blog to inspire and motivate you.
• Choose a lightweight website: Opt for a homepage that loads quickly and doesn’t consume too many resources. A lightweight website will ensure a snappy browsing experience and save you precious time.
• Embrace inspiration: Your homepage can be a source of inspiration. Consider choosing a website that features beautiful imagery, quotes, or articles that ignite your creativity or uplift your spirits.
• Prioritize security: For a more secure browsing experience, choose a trusted search engine or a website that focuses on privacy and security. This will help protect your personal information and give you peace of mind as you explore the web.
• Keep it simple: Sometimes, a clutter-free homepage does the trick. Setting your homepage to a minimalist design, a blank page, or a search bar can provide a clean and distraction-free entry point to the internet.
• Experiment and adjust: Don’t be afraid to try out different homepages to see which one works best for you. You can always change your homepage settings based on your evolving needs and preferences.

Remember, your homepage should be a reflection of your personality and browsing goals. By following these tips, you can choose a homepage in Safari that enhances your browsing experience and makes every visit to the web a delight.

How to Change Your Homepage in Safari to a Blank Page

If you prefer a clean and minimalistic browsing experience, setting your homepage in Safari to a blank page can be a great option. Here’s how you can do it:

• Open Safari on your Mac.
• In the “Homepage” section, delete the existing URL and replace it with “about:blank”.
• Close the Preferences window.
• Now, when you open Safari or click the home button, it will load a blank page as your homepage.

On an iPhone or iPad:

• In the Safari settings, tap on “Homepage”.
• Select “Custom”.
• Remove any existing URL and leave the field empty.
• Exit the settings app.

Now, when you open Safari on your iPhone or iPad, it will load a blank page as your homepage.

Having a blank page as your homepage provides a distraction-free environment and allows you to start fresh every time you open Safari. It’s an ideal choice if you prefer a minimalist interface or if you want to have a blank canvas for conducting searches or navigating to specific websites.

Remember, you can always change your homepage again by following the same steps and entering a different URL if you decide to switch to a different homepage setting in the future.

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iOS 18: All the ways you can customize your iPhone’s apps, Home Screen, Control Center, and more

The biggest headline of iOS 18 is undoubtedly Apple Intelligence , but if there’s one larger theme for the release, it’s customization.

iOS 18 lets you personalize your iPhone experience like never before. There are new tools for arranging apps and widgets, changing your app icon colors , customizing Control Center , replacing the flashlight and camera buttons , and more. Apple has even made several of its individual apps newly customizable, like Photos .

Get ready to customize your iPhone like never before in iOS 18.

Free placement of Home Screen apps and widgets

From the earliest versions of iOS, the iPhone’s Home Screen has required apps to be placed on a strict grid. Want an app in the bottom corner? First you had to fill in all the space above it with other apps.

iOS 18 brings introduces much more freedom to the app grid. Now, you can leave empty space anywhere on the screen and put, say, just a couple apps or a single widget near the bottom of the screen. This can be especially nice when you have a wallpaper subject that you don’t want covered up by apps.

App icon design: color tints and jumbo icons

iOS 18 also offers new tools for changing how app icons look on your Home Screen.

You can apply a tint to all your app icons so they look uniform. By long-pressing on your Home Screen then pressing Edit, you’ll be able to select the color that all your app icons are tinted with.

This is the same place you can choose to make all your app icons larger and hide their names from being displayed.

Powerful new Control Center

With Control Center in iOS 18, you can prioritize the controls you care about most with more power than ever .

In iOS 18 controls can be added or removed directly from the Control Center view itself, and you can modify controls to make them larger or smaller—similar to what’s possible with Home Screen widgets. Soon, third-party apps will be able to make their own controls available for your use.

Controls can now live across multiple pages. By default there are dedicated pages for media playback, Home, and connectivity, but nothing’s stopping you from ignoring or removing those altogether and assembling your own custom pages of go-to controls.

Replace flashlight and camera buttons

For the first time, the iPhone’s flashlight and camera buttons can be replaced on the Lock Screen . You can replace these controls with any of the variety of controls supported by Control Center, including third-party options.

You can still only have two Lock Screen buttons, but Apple does let you set different controls for different custom Lock Screens—a nice touch.

Customizing Apple’s apps to your liking

Customization doesn’t stop at system-wide tools. In several cases, even Apple’s individual apps have gained new customization powers.

• Photos : The major redesign of Photos in iOS 18 brings powerful new abilities to customize nearly every aspect of the app, including what types of collections it displays, how your library is sorted and filtered, and more.
• Reminders : Other than Reminders being integrated into the Calendar app , one of its other main iOS 18 updates is that you can reorder the sections in your Today list, such as moving overdue reminders to the bottom.
• Fitness : Even the Fitness app is getting in on the customization game. Now you can modify the Summary screen to display only the data you want to see, whether that’s your Activity Rings, trainer tips, or any of the many other options.

There once was a day when it seemed like Apple would never provide powerful customization options on the iPhone. The company’s opinionated designs that sought to serve all users were intended to provide a simpler, more elegant experience.

Whether you preferred those times or not, they are certainly gone and done with. iOS 18 makes your iPhone more personalized than ever, and I’m fascinated to see how users take advantage of its customization tools this fall.

How do you plan to customize your iPhone? Are there any customization options still missing? Let us know in the comments.

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Apple just announced macOS 15 at WWDC 2024 . Called macOS Sequoia, the updated operating system brings a suite of new features to Macs this fall. The key change, however, is a new Continuity feature that allows you to mirror your iPhone on your Mac, from the MacBook Air to the Mac Studio .

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Although iPhone mirroring takes center stage, there are a ton of new features in MacOS 15. Here are all of them.

This isn’t just streaming your iPhone screen to your Mac. The feature allows you to open and use apps, enter text, and even get notifications on your desktop. Apple even says your iPhone’s audio will come through your Mac. It basically gives you full access to your iPhone without ever reaching in your pocket.

That’s impressive enough, but iPhone Mirroring goes further. You can leave your iPhone locked while still mirroring it on your Mac. Even if you’re not next to your iPhone, you’ll be able to access your apps and notifications without unlocking your device. Apple says it works with StandBy, as well, so you’ll be able to see details on your iPhone’s screen while getting the full app on your Mac.

One of the most useful features is the ability to drag and drop files between your iPhone and Mac, however. This works in both directions, and with your keyboard, trackpad, or mouse.

Although iPhone Mirroring is the biggest change in macOS 15, Apple has other features in the works. Borrowing from Windows 11 , macOS 15 now includes window snapping. You can drag a window to a side of your screen and immediately snap it into place, allowing you to quickly pull up multiple windows at once. Apple is also adding new keyboard shortcuts to make organizing your windows even easier.

Apple has a couple of new features to help you at work, too. The Presenter preview allows you to see what you’re going to share on your screen before sharing it, ensuring you don’t accidently pull up the wrong window. Apple says this feature works with FaceTime and Zoom right now, but it hasn’t shared if it will come to apps like Microsoft Teams . In addition, you can now replace your background in calls on FaceTime and Zoom, directly through your Mac.

These backgrounds are built into macOS 15, and Apple says they include color gradients and system wallpapers. You’ll be able to upload your own photos to use, as well.

One of the biggest updates is the Passwords app, however. This is already available on multiple Apple devices, but the company is bringing it to Macs now. It will display passwords, verification codes, notes, and more, and sync across your other Apple devices. Just like you can on iPhone, the Passwords app will automatically pop up in a password field and automatically fill in your details.

The backbone of Passwords is Apple Keychain, and it syncs across your devices with iCloud. It’ll even work on Windows with the iCloud for Windows app.

MacOS 15 comes with a new version of Safari that is packed with AI features . The new Highlights feature uses AI to pick out bits of information from your browsing and summarize them. It can take in directions, summaries, links, and more. Apple also updated the Reader tool, which now includes a streamlined view of an article, an AI-generated summary, and a table of contents.

Outside of AI, the updated Safari comes a picture-in-picture feature that automatically pulls videos up when you move to a different window. The player is fit with controls, as well, so you don’t need to switch your window back.

Apple is bringing a suite of new games to Macs with macOS 15, as well as updating some gaming-specific features. Some new games include Frostpunk 2, Palworld,  and  RoboCop: Rogue City,  all of which will use Apple’s MetalFX upscaling to improve performance. For more powerful Macs with the M3 family of chips, Apple revealed  Control Ultimate Edition  and  Wuthering Waves,  both of which will support ray tracing .

For macOS 15 specifically, Apple says that it’s made improvements to Game Mode which “unlock smoother frame rates.” It also tweaked power managed features to “boost performance across the Mac lineup.”

The most important announcement was the Game Porting Toolkit 2, however. The original Game Porting Toolkit is the main driving force behind the growing rate of games on Macs, and this new version adds some of the most-requested features by game developers, according to Apple. Hopefully that means we see even more games on Macs.

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Apple’s macOS Sonoma came loaded with a bunch of great new features, including desktop widgets, video screen savers, and more. With plenty of them, you just need to sit back and enjoy them, without much action required on your part. But that’s not always the case.

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Apple’s macOS Sonoma is full of great features, including many that Apple raved about when it unveiled the operating system at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June 2023. If you want to get the most out of macOS Sonoma, it helps to know a few handy tips and tricks to improve your experience.

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iOS 17: How to Set a Default Browser Other Than Safari

The iOS 17 update makes it easier for users to change their default browser. Apple is seemingly encouraging users to try other browsers. Although this change is currently exclusive to those from EU countries, it could become a permanent feature once newer public iOS versions are available.

How to Set a Default Browser Other Than Safari in iOS 17

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Apple will automatically show a choice screen the first time you open Safari after upgrading to iOS 17. The pop-up displays the most popular browsers in your region. Here’s how to change your default browser engine through it:

In an email to the Apple Developer Program members, Apple shared which web browsers it will display to EU users. The list included:

• Aloha Browser
• Brave Browser
• Microsoft Edge
• Mozilla Firefox
• Onion Browser
• Opera Touch
• Private Browser Deluxe
• Vivaldi Browser
• You.com AI Search Assistant

Apple’s letting other web browser engines in as well. So browsers like Chrome won’t be stuck using just the WebKit engine.

Can We Change the Default Browser in Other iOS Versions?

I want to clarify that iPhone users have been able to change their default browser settings since iOS 14 launched in 2020 .

Apple made this change in compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) requirements in the European Union (EU). Users outside its regions won’t see this pop-up yet. But don’t fret too much because nothing changed in terms of functionality—it’s merely a mandatory pop-up for fair trade compliance. You can still explore the best alternatives to Safari .

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Get a sneak peek at upcoming web technologies in macOS and iOS with Safari Technology Preview and experiment with these technologies in your websites and extensions.

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