#Setting safari preferences iphone windows#
Important Safari Settings in iOS that we recommend, and whyĪpple Safari is quite good in iOS and has some very useful options to keep you safe on the internet.īlock Pop-ups - Despite the fact that iOS is generally considered safe(er) from malware, you don't want websites popping-up windows to annoy you, or distract you. These are pretty basic options that are self-explanatory. You can manage your favorites (bookmarked websites) separately, and also the behaviour of tabs. It can be useful, if you like to visit the same sites everyday. I recommend disabling it, simply because it can be inaccurate and because it needs to connect to the site in question.ĪutoFill - You can use Safari to automatically fill in your name, credit card info, to quickly checkout on websites.įrequently visited sites - As the name so obviously suggests, this feature lists your most often accessed websites. It loads the most popular result for the term you searched for. Pre-load Top Hit - This is like a lottery, and depends on what you're searching for.
Quick Website Search - Want to see a Wikipedia page of a particular topic, but too lazy to type it? Try typing something like "Wiki iOS", and it should load the relevant page. It is powered by Siri, in case you were wondering. The information is displayed inside the address bar, and maybe useful at times. Safari suggestions - This option is kind of similar to search suggestions, and pulls up information from sources like Wikipedia. This can get finicky though, as you may get suggestions which may not be entirely relevant to what you are looking for. It can help you save a few seconds, which would have otherwise been wasted typing the rest of the search phrase. Search suggestions - You may know this as auto-complete from desktop browsers. You do however have 3 other options to choose from Yahoo, Bing and the privacy-centric DuckDuckGo. If you use Siri, you can choose whether it should display suggestions, learn from how you use Safari, and whether it should display information/suggestions in search results.ĭefault search engine - No prizes for guessing what's default here, Google of course. Siri and Search - Do you use Siri? If your answer is no, disable everything under this option. This is a personal choice. We will mention the most important ones which you may want to tweak. There are a slew of options that you can modify here. You can find Safari on the side-bar to your left. iOS is a little bit weird when it comes to that instead, you need to go to the Settings app to configure the browser. You can't manage Safari's settings from, well, Safari. So, we kept it pretty simple and straightforward. This is more like a cheat sheet, we didn't want to bore you with technical jargon.
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