FacebookTwitterLinkedIn

Easily Change Your Safari Home Page on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

How You Can Change Safari Homepage on Your iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Safari is the default browser on all your Apple devices and is one of the most used browsers in the United States. Like every browser, it has its perks and downsides. If you want to customize the browser or just faster access a certain website, you can set it as your Safari Home page.

Easily Change Your Safari Home Page on iOS and macOS

A homepage is the main page or the first page you see when you launch the browser. If you have a favorite website that you'd like to see every time you open Safari you can set it as a homepage. For example, the first thing you'd like to do in the morning is to find out what's happening globally and find out all the news. So, instead of entering the website into the address bar, you can see it instantly when you open Safari.

In this article, you'll find out how you can change the Safari homepage on your Apple devices like iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Video on How You Can Change Safari Homepage on Your iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Table of Contents:

How to Change Safari Homepage on your iPhone and iPad

Unfortunately, the Safari browser on your iOS device doesn't have the option to change the homepage. But you can create a shortcut on your home screen to access the website with one tap.

To create a website shortcut on iPhone and iPad, follow the steps below:

1. Open the Safari browser on your iOS device.
2. Go to the website you want to create a shortcut for.
3. Then, at the bottom menu, tap on the "Share" button that looks like a square with an arrow pointing up.

Click on Share

4. When the menu pops up, scroll down and click on "Add to Home Screen".

Add webpage to home screen

5. Name your shortcut and then tap on "Add", located at the top left corner.

Click on Add

The website shortcut will be added to your home screen. When you click on it, you'll be taken to that website. It will still open in the Safari browser, so you can use that shortcut to open it and start browsing.

[Back to Table of Contents]

How to Change Safari Homepage on your Mac

You can change the Safari browser homepage easily with a few clicks of your mouse.

To change the Safari browser homepage on Mac, follow the steps below:

1. Launch Safari browser from the Launchpad, Finder, or Spotlight.
2. In the menu bar, click on "Safari" and go to "Preferences".

Go to Safari Preferences

3. Then, go to the "Generals" tab.
4. Next to "Homepage", type in or paste the URL of the website you want to be the Safari homepage.

Enter website url

Or you can go to that website, go to Safari preferences and then click on "Set to Current Page".

Set home screen to current page

You can also make the homepage website open every time you open a new tab or a window.

To open the homepage website when a new tab and window opens, follow the steps below:

1. Launch Safari browser from the Launchpad, Finder, or Spotlight.
2. In the menu bar, click on "Safari" and go to "Preferences".

Go to Safari Preferences

3. Then, go to the "Generals" tab.
4. Next to "New windows open with", click on the drop-down menu and select "Homepage".
5. Next to "New tabs open with", click on the drop-down menu and select "Homepage" as well.

Select to see homepage when new tab and window opened

Now, when you open a new tab or window, you'll see the homepage website.

We hope this article was helpful!

You can also check out the video below for a step-by-step tutorial.

[Back to Top]

▼ Show Discussion

About the author:

Karolina Peistariene

Author of how-to guides for Mac users. Responsible for collecting, analyzing, and presenting problem-solving solution articles related to macOS issues. Years of macOS experience combined with solid research and analyzing skills help Karolina provide readers with working and helpful solutions as well as introduce various features Mac has to offer. Contact Karolina Peistariene.

Our guides are free. However, if you want to support us you can send us a donation.

About PCrisk

PCrisk is a cyber security portal, informing Internet users about the latest digital threats. Our content is provided by security experts and professional malware researchers. Read more about us.

Malware activity

Global malware activity level today:

Medium threat activity

Increased attack rate of infections detected within the last 24 hours.