A Safari window showing the Era Ceramics website.

Get started with Safari on Mac

Learn the basics to quickly get up to speed. Search the web, go to a website, set your homepage, and bookmark websites you want to revisit.

How to get started with Safari

The Safari app showing Highlights for a hotel destination in Palm Springs, including a map, buttons to call the hotel and get directions, and a link to book a reservation.

Discover a webpage’s highlights

Get directions, summaries, and links to additional details about people, music, movies, and TV shows.

See a webpage’s highlights in Safari

A Reader window showing the beginning of an article, a table of contents, and a summary of the article.

Read articles without visual distractions

Get rid of menus and other diversions. See a table of contents and summary for longer articles.

Hide distractions when reading articles in Safari

Overlapping windows.

Allow pop-ups

Choose which websites can show pop-up windows.

Allow pop-ups

The Trash icon.

Got cookies?

Delete the cookies websites store on your Mac—or allow them.

Clear or enable cookies

The Smart Search field for a Private Browsing window and for a normal window.

Browse privately

Keep your browsing history to yourself.

Use Private Browsing

To explore the Safari User Guide, click Table of Contents at the top of the page, or enter a word or phrase in the search field.

If you need more help, visit the Safari Support website.

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