Safari Tutorial for Mac

0:00 hi everyone this is anson from ansonalex.com and in this video i'm going to show you everything you need to know to get up and running with safari for mac os most of the features that i'll be going over will also apply to safari for ios as well i'm currently running safari version 14.0.2 and you can check which version of safari you're running by going up to the safari menu in the top left and then clicking on about safari safari is a web browser just like google chrome microsoft edge and mozilla firefox to get started with safari let's take a look at how the address bar works so the address bar is up here at the very top and from here we can enter a website address and press return or enter to visit the website

0:47 alternatively you can also search google directly from the address bar as well notice that at the top left of the browser we also have the back and forward buttons that are pretty standard in most browsers before we move forward i just want to mention that i'll be going at a pretty quick pace in this video to get as much information in as possible remember you can always pause and rewind if you need to and it may be helpful to follow along using your safari web browser okay so we know how to visit websites and search google let's take a look at how we can use multiple tabs in safari you can open a new tab just by clicking on the plus icon up here at the top right of the browser if you like keyboard shortcuts you could also press command and t

1:33 to open up a new tab or command w to close the current tab so right now we have two tabs open you can see i've got this start page tab and then i have this anson alex search tab so we can just click on the different tabs to go back and forth so you know i could go back to my website here and have my website open in this tab but i still have my search open in this other tab to close a tab you can just hover over the tab and click on the x button you can also press command and w if you like keyboard shortcuts so right now we have two tabs open and by browsing with multiple tabs we can keep as many websites open at once as we'd like like in other browsers we can also change the order of our open tabs simply by dragging and dropping them in the position that we'd like them to be in so we could have 10 tabs open at once

2:19 right now and then i could just drag them in any order that i'd like you can also view all of your tabs at once by clicking on this double square icon here at the top right corner you'll notice that it shows all of your tabs if you had even more you could scroll down this page and then you can click on the one that you'd like to look at i find this a very helpful feature when you have a lot of tabs open all at the same time okay so let's talk about bookmarks in safari bookmarks allow you to easily access sites without having to enter their web address in your address bar to bookmark a website we first need to access the site that we'd like to bookmark which you know we're on my website right now so that works and then what we need to do is click on the share icon up here at the top right you'll notice from here we have the option to add bookmark in the window that pops up

3:05 we can decide where we want to put the bookmark now right now we only have two options bookmarks and favorites favorites is essentially a pre-created folder inside of our main bookmarks folder and that main bookmarks folder will store all of our bookmarks in a minute i'll show you how you can create your own custom folders inside of the main bookmarks folder so you can more easily sort your bookmarked websites for now let's just add this one to favorites we could also change the name of the bookmark if we wanted to and we could add a description but i'm not going to do that for now i'm just going to click on add i just want to mention if you like keyboard shortcuts you can also bookmark a page by pressing command d on the keyboard now let's take a look at accessing our bookmarks we have a few different ways to do this

3:50 first of all we can click on this book icon up here at the top left of the browser you'll notice that a sidebar appears in this sidebar we have all of our bookmarks listed and the folders if we had any but we only have one folder so let's just drop this folder down so you'll notice that the bookmark we just added is now listed here at the bottom of the favorites folder and there are a bunch of bookmarks that are already in here these are just pre-created bookmarks that apple put in there so at any time with any bookmark you can always right click on it and you could delete it so honestly i'm not going to yahoo you know a lot of these i could probably delete them out but that's up to you now here in the bookmark sidebar we can also create folders by just right clicking in the empty space and selecting new folder so i could just call this like tech websites

4:36 and then i could click and drag this bookmark into the tech websites folder i could close up my favorites and so you can see it's now listed there now i can drag this bookmark around however i'd like so if i had other folders i could drag it to other folders as well and when we go to add a new bookmark we'll now see the tech websites folder as an option for us to add this bookmark to so we only saw the bookmarks in the favorites option before we would now have a third option tech websites and you can create as many folders as you'd like alternatively to access a bookmark page we can just click on the bookmarks menu up here at the top and you'll notice we have all of our bookmarks folders listed here so here's the page that we bookmarked if we had any bookmarks that weren't in a folder they were just in this general folder the general bookmarks folder but not one

5:22 of the subfolders they'd just be listed here you wouldn't have to go to the folder first so that's another way to access your bookmarks i'd also like to show you one more way that will really open up some customization options for your safari experience if you right click on the toolbar in safari you'll notice that we have the option to customize toolbar after selecting that option a window appears that allows us to customize our entire safari toolbar notice that there's a bookmarks button here and i could just click and i could drag this bookmarks button anywhere i'd like up here in safari so i could put it over here but if i didn't want it on the left i could drag it over here to the right so safari really allows users a lot of freedom in how they customize their browsing experience and that's one of the things that i really like about safari

6:07 there are also a lot of other options in here as well that you can take a look at for instance you may want to add a home button so you've got this home icon right here you can just put that in our browser as well and later on in a few minutes i'll show you how you can set a home page so anytime you click on that home button it would take you to your set home page again i'll let you take a look at the other options in here so let's go ahead and let's close this we'll click done okay so now let's go ahead and let's click back on this share icon up here at the top right we had a few other options here first of all we could have added this page to our reading list instead of bookmarks there isn't really a big difference you can access the reading list over here in the bookmark sidebar just like bookmarks it's just this other tab with the glasses if we added any pages to our reading list they'd be listed here

6:54 the main difference is basically how people use it generally people use the reading list for items that they want to look at but they don't plan on bookmarking forever and then bookmarks are generally used for saving web pages for the long term let's go back over here to the share menu we had a few other options notice that from here we also could have emailed this page to someone we could send it via messages airdrop and a few other options as well i want to mention at any time if you want to reload a page you can go up here to the address bar to the right side of it and click on this arrow and that will reload the current page that's an important one to know how to do in any browser i think if you want to see your browser history you can go up here to the history menu and it will show you all the pages that you've been to so we've only been to these two right now so that's a good way to see your history you can also clear your

7:40 history from here as well so you could just click on clear history and then you can choose the time frame that you'd like to clear the history for so we could say you know just all history and then hit clear history if we wanted to if you click up here on the view menu we have some more customization options that i'll kind of let you take a look at but i know one popular one is to show the favorites bar so if we click on that you'll notice that our toolbar up here at the top kind of expands and we now have all these links that have our favorite bookmarks so if i moved my website back into favorites you'll notice that now it appears up here as well if i delete any of these websites out of favorites they'll also be deleted up here so that's a really good way to just easily you know one click and access a website just make sure that you're showing the favorites bar by going here to the view

8:27 menu and if you wanted to then hide it you could now hide it from the view menu as well okay so let's actually go ahead and close our bookmarks we'll do that by just clicking back on the book icon so now let's talk about customizing some safari preferences like setting our homepage and choosing which page we'd like to see when safari first opens to access our preferences we're going to go to the safari menu and then click on preferences notice that right off the bat we have the option to choose what safari opens with so from here we could choose a new window or a popular option is to choose all of the windows from the last session so it'll open up whatever you had open when you last accessed safari and closed it down we can also decide how we'd like new windows to open so we can choose the start page which is essentially a page that lists

9:13 all of your favorites it was the first page that we saw when i started this tutorial it's just your favorites the bookmarks that are in that favorites folder alternatively we could also choose home page we can also choose what new tabs open with so we could choose home page by the way to open a new window in safari i just do the command n shortcut and then down here we have the option to actually set our home page so if you have a particular page that you'd like to see when safari first opens up go ahead and enter it in here now and you could also just access the page and then come in here to your preferences and hit set to current page now i'm not going to go over every single preference here in safari but i do recommend that you take a look around in here on your own to see all that is possible let's take a look at a couple other important ones

9:58 first of all we have the passwords tab and when you access a website in safari and you first log in safari is going to ask you if you want to save your username and password kind of like you know other browsers if you do decide to save it you can always come in here to the safari preferences access the passwords tab and this is where you'd be able to modify any of your saved login information view passwords that sort of thing if you click on the search tab you can set your default search engine so right now it's google and i'm going to leave it as google but you could change that if you wanted to if you go to the privacy tab you can clear all of your cookies and clear your cash in here by clicking on manage website data and then you know you can click remove all and remove all of your website browsing data if you click on

10:44 the extensions tab we don't have anything in here right now but you can click on this more extensions button and it brings you into the app store at the safari extension section where you could browse some cool little extensions to enhance your browsing experience with safari okay so that should cover all of the primary features of using the safari web browser i hope you found this video helpful and if you did i'd really appreciate a thumbs up here on youtube if you want to see more technology tips and tutorials don't forget to subscribe to my youtube channel that's all i have for now this is anson from ansonalex.com