Safari Help: How to Use Safari

2012-01-08 20:20:04 / Posted by Ivan Cook to iPhone/iPod/iPad
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Safari is a web browser developed by Apple. It enables users to search online contents, open web pages, create bookmarks and more:

After the launch of Safari, you can do lots of things besides some basic functions like: Open websites: enter the URL of the site on the address section and then tap on Go.

Safari will remember the old websites you visited and give you suggestions when you enter the same URL next time, so that you can directly choose the URL in the suggestions without reenter the whole site address.

Read the webpage:

Once you opened a page, you can scroll down and up to read the page contents.

Note: If you visited some online music and video center like YouTube, here are a note for you: Safari doesn’t support Flash player, so you are unable to open videos using web flash player only on some blogs or sites. And to open these kinds of flash videos on your iOS devices, you have two options: use another iOS web browser supporting FLV flash player or download the video on your computer then convert flash FLV files to iPad, iPhone or iPod touch, then import the converted file into iTunes library and transfer to your iOS device.

Create new page:

Safari supports you to open up to eight pages at one time and each page is called tab. So as to create a new tab without closing the exit pages, you can tap on the icon on far right corner at the bottom of the page opened, and click on New Page.

Go to another page:

Once there are several pages opened at one time, you can also click the icon at the right corner of the bottom page and slide to tap on the ideal page.

Enable Private browsing:

Safari even provides Private Browsing for you to protect your private information and prevent some websites to track your behavior. To enable it, go to Setting, scroll down to Safari and switch on Private Browsing.

Add Bookmarks:

As what just mentioned above, you can add bookmarks via Safari so that you can get quick access to those websites you often visit. To create bookmarks, you can open the web page, tap on the share icon and choose Add Bookmark (where you can also use the page as Home screen tab, mail link to the page or print the page), then name the page and choose the Bookmarks option (or create a new bookmark folder), tap on Save.

Backup Bookmarks:

If you wanna backup Safari Bookmarks, you can use iCloud, a new service provided by Apple and only available on iOS 5 devices and Macs running Lion. To backup Safari Bookmarks on your iOS devices like iPhone, iPad or iPod, you can go to Settings and scroll down to iCloud, enter the Apple ID if you haven’t activate iCloud, switch on Safari back-upping. After that, your Safari data including bookmarks will be back-upped onto the Air and can be restore on any iOS 5 devices and Macs running Lion via the same Apple ID.

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Safari User Guide