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

A window showing how to find the text “floating” on a web page.

Zoom, find text and customise websites

Quickly complete common tasks with the Page menu.

Find text on a web page in Safari

Overlapping windows.

Allow pop-ups

Choose which websites can show pop-up windows.

Allow pop-ups

The Bin icon.

Got cookies?

Delete the cookies that 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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