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Bookmark a website in Safari on iPhone

Bookmark a favorite website

View and organize your bookmarks

Tap Edit, then do any of the following:

Create a new folder: Tap New Folder at the bottom left, enter a name, then tap Done.

Rename bookmarks: Tap the bookmark, enter a new name, then tap Done.

See your Mac bookmarks on iPhone

Tap Show All (below Apps Using iCloud), then make sure Safari is turned on.

Note: You must also have Safari turned on in iCloud settings on your Mac and be signed in with the same Apple ID . See Set up iCloud for the Safari app on all your devices in the iCloud User Guide.

Add a website icon to your Home Screen

You can add a website icon to your iPhone Home Screen for quick access.

Scroll down the list of options, then tap Add to Home Screen.

The icon appears only on the device where you add it.

Note: Some websites may ask for permission to send you notifications. You can change your notification settings at any time. See Change notification settings .

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Last Updated: August 5, 2022 Fact Checked

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Safari is a browser app that comes preloaded on all iPhones and iPads. However, it’s possible to accidentally delete or hide the Safari app icon from your Home Screen. If the Safari icon has gone missing from your Home Screen, don’t worry. In this article, we’ll talk you through the best ways to find the Safari app on your device and put it back .

Adding Safari from the App Library

• As soon as you start typing, search results should begin to pop up on the screen.
• You can also browse the categories in the library until you find Safari. For instance, Safari may be located in the Utilities category.

Finding Safari in Spotlight Search

Unlocking Safari in Parental Controls

• At this point, if you have restrictions enabled, you’ll be prompted to enter your Screen Time passcode.
• If you want to quickly turn off all content restrictions , you can toggle off Content & Privacy Restrictions at the top of the screen.

Showing Hidden Home Screen Pages

• You can also touch and hold the row of dots at the bottom of your screen to make the icons start wiggling.

Doing a Home Screen Reset

Adding Safari Bookmarks to your Home Screen

• In the Add to Home Screen window, you can also customize the name of the bookmark if you like.

Expert Q&A

• If you want to add the Safari app icon to the dock on your iPhone, tap and hold the app icon on your Home Screen until it starts to wiggle. Then, drag it down to the dock. If you already have 4 apps in your dock, you’ll need to remove one to make room. You can use the same process on the iPad, but the iPad dock can hold many more apps than the iPhone dock. Thanks Helpful 0 Not Helpful 2

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• ↑ https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211345
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Add a Website Bookmark to Your Home Screen on iPhone and iPad

Some websites don't have a dedicated mobile app for accessing their content, but that doesn't mean you can't add bookmarks to favorite websites on your Home screen.

When you tap a website bookmark on your Home screen, it opens in Safari on the specific page you selected. If the site you're linking to has a dynamic mobile-friendly layout, accessing it from your Home screen can even become an app-like experience.

What's more, you can create as many website links as you like and arrange them on your iPhone or iPad Home screen, just like you would with regular apps. Here's how it works.

How to Create a Website Link on Your Home Screen

• Launch Safari on your ‌iPhone‌ or ‌iPad‌.
• Navigate to the site that you want to create a Home screen shortcut to.
• Tap the Share icon (the square with an arrow pointing out of it) at the bottom of the screen.

• Type a name for your site link. This will be the title that appears beneath its icon on your Home screen.

Your new "web app" will appear in the next available space on your device's Home screen. To move it like you would any other app, tap and hold its icon, then tap Edit Home Screen , and you'll be able to drag it to your desired location. When you've placed it where you want it, tap Done .

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How to Add, Edit, and Delete Bookmarks in iPhone's Safari

This browser makes it easy to manage bookmarks

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What to Know

• Add a bookmark: Go to the web page you want to bookmark, tap the box-and-arrow  icon, then tap Add Bookmark .
• View and manage your bookmarks: Tap the open book icon to view, edit, and delete your Safari bookmarks.
• Sync bookmarks across devices: Go to Settings > your name > iCloud , then turn on the Safari toggle and tap Merge .

This article explains how to manage bookmarks on an iPhone. Instructions apply to Safari , the default web browser for iOS .

How to Add a Bookmark in Safari on an iPhone

Adding a website bookmark in Safari on your iPhone is simple. Follow these steps:

Go to the web page you want to bookmark and tap the action box (the icon that looks like a box with an arrow coming out of it).

In the pop-up menu, tap  Add   Bookmark .

This menu also contains useful features such as printing and searching for text on the page .

Edit the details about the bookmark, such as its name and location.

When you're done, tap  Save . Your bookmark is saved.

To use your bookmarks, tap the icon at the bottom of the Safari screen that looks like an open book. This reveals your bookmarks. Navigate through your bookmark folders to find the site you want to visit. Tap the bookmark to go to that site.

How to Sync Bookmarks Across Devices Using iCloud

When you turn on Safari syncing using  iCloud , you can share bookmarks across your Apple devices. This way, bookmarking a site in Safari on one device automatically bookmarks it in Safari for all your devices. Here's how to set it up:

On your iPhone, tap  Settings

Tap your name at the top of the screen and then tap iCloud .

Move the  Safari  slider to on (green).

Tap Merge . You've synced your iPhone bookmarks to iCloud and your other compatible devices with the same setting.

Repeat these steps on your iPad and Mac (and PC, if you use the iCloud Control Panel) to keep everything in sync.

How to Sync Passwords With iCloud Keychain

It's also possible to sync saved usernames and passwords that you use to access your online accounts. When you sync passwords using the iCloud Keychain, any username and password combinations you save in Safari on your iOS devices and Macs are stored on all devices. Here's how:

Tap  Settings and then tap your Apple ID (your name at the top of the screen).

Tap iCloud .

Select Keychain .

Move the iCloud Keychain slider to on (green).

When Safari asks whether you want to save a password when you log into a website, and you say Yes , that information is added to your iCloud Keychain.

Enable this setting on all the devices you want to share the same iCloud Keychain data, and you won't have to enter your usernames and passwords again.

How to Edit and Delete Bookmarks in Safari on an iPhone

Once your bookmarks are saved in Safari on your iPhone, edit or delete bookmarks by following these steps:

Open the bookmarks menu by tapping the open book icon.

Tap the Bookmarks tab and then tap  Edit .

Create a new folder, or delete, rename, or reorder your bookmarks.

When you've completed whatever changes you want to make, tap Done .

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Is there a website that you visit many times a day? Get to it faster with a web clip. Web clips are shortcuts stored on your home screen. They look like apps and take you to your favorite website with one tap.

To create a web clip, follow these steps:

Go to the site you want.

Tap the box-and-arrow icon used to create bookmarks.

In the pop-up menu, tap  Add to Home Screen . 

Edit the name of the web clip, if you want.

Tap  Add . An icon is added to your home screen. Tap it to go to that site.

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How to really use bookmarks on iPhone and iPad

By Charlie Sorrel • 11:00 am, March 16, 2018

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You probably already know how to save a bookmark on your iPhone or iPad, but you might not know just how many neat things you can do with them. You can customize your Safari home screen to show the bookmarks you want, but that’s just the beginning. Let’s find out how to really use bookmarks on your iPhone.

How to save a bookmark on iPhone

This is the basic unit of bookmarking, so we’ll cover it first. To bookmark a web page, just tap the share arrow in Safari, then scroll along the bottom row of buttons until you find Add Bookmark . Tap that, fill out the name (optional), and pick a location (more on locations in a second). Tap save, and your bookmark is saved.

Power-user tip: try long-pressing the bookmark icon to access this shortcut:

How to find your saved bookmarks on iPhone

Now you’ve saved a bunch of bookmarks, how do you find them again? The easiest way is to just start typing some part of the bookmark’s name or address into the regular Safari search bar, the one where you type URLS and Google searches. Safari’s autocomplete pulls from your bookmarks, so your bookmarks will show up here in their own section of the results, called Bookmarks and History .

Alternatively, you can tap then little Bookmark icon (bottom of the screen on iPhone, top left on iPad), and browse your saved bookmarks from there. Here you will see a list of your saved bookmarks, as well as any folders you have created.

Bookmark folders on iPhone

If you save a lot of bookmarks, you may want to organize them into folders. You can specify the folder where you want to keep a bookmark when you save it. To create a new bookmark folder in Safari on the iPhone, just open up the Bookmarks section, as in the last step, and tap Edit . In edit mode, you can delete existing bookmarks and folders, and drag them around to reorder.

To create a new folder, tap the New Folder button. you’ll be prompted to give the folder a name, and to choose its location — you can place it inside any other folder, or at the top level of your bookmarks list.

Tap Done , and you now have a new folder.

Special bookmark folders

There are one or two special bookmark folders. One is called Favorites . Any bookmark you save in Favorites will also show up in the Safari bookmarks bar on iPad and Mac. If you sync your Safari settings via iCloud, then these favorites will also sync. The bookmarks bar is a good place to store oft-used sites — your email service, for example — but it is also the spot to store bookmarklets that have their own special functions. For example, you can add a bookmarklet that will translate the current page with a single tap.

The other special folder is chosen by you. Whenever you open a new tab in Safari, you’ll see a grid of bookmarked sites. By default, these bookmarks will be taken from the Favorites folder, and mixed in with recent- and oft-viewed sites automatically added by Safari. But you can pick any folder as the source for this “new tab grid.” To change the new tab folder, head to Settings > Safari on your iPhone or iPad, and then, in the General section, tap Favorites . This will show you a list of your bookmark folders. Just tap the one you want to set it.

Now, whenever you open a new tab, you will see bookmarks from this list. You can set a different folder for each of your devices: iPhone, iPad, Mac.

Add bookmarks to the iPhone Home Screen

Another place to save a bookmark if on the iPhone’s regular Home Screen. If you do this, then an icon will be added to the home screen, right next to the apps. You can move it around, put in the dock, and add it to a folder, just like any other app icon. And when you tap the bookmark icon, the pager will load in Safari (in some cases, it will appear to launch as a standalone app, but that’s beyond the scope of this article).

You might want to add a home-screen icon for your email service, for example.

To add a bookmark to the Home Screen, proceed as above, for adding a regular bookmark. Just hit the share arrow in Safari scroll the bottom row of buttons and tap Add to Home Screen . In the resulting pop-up window, you may want to edit the name to be a bit shorter and neater, then hit Add . Now, go take a look at the home screen. You’ll see the icon right there.

How to edit bookmarks on iPhone

Editing your bookmarks is easy. Just tap the Bookmarks icon in Safari, then tap Edit . You’ll see the familiar edit screen, with little red delete buttons next to each bookmark and folder. You can tap an item to rename it, or edit its address. you can drag to reorder bookmarks and folders, and you can add new folders.

Bonus tip: editing the new-tab grid

Whenever you’re looking at your nice, custom Safari home-screen grid, you can edit the layout any time you like. Just tap and hold on an icon, then drag it to its new position. this is easier on iPad, and on older iPhone without 3D touch, but you can do it on any iOS device (the Mac, too). You can also delete and edit bookmarks by long-pressing on them, and you can peek-and-pop websites by force-touching the icons.

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iCloud will sync all the bookmarks you create in Safari on your Mac to your iPad or iPhone, and vice-versa. But bookmarks aren't quite as simple and obvious on the iPhone as they are on the Mac. Here's how to create and manage them on iOS.

Adding bookmarks on your iPhone is easy, but it's not immediately obvious. The first thing you're likely to do is fumble around in your existing bookmarks before you realize that isn't working. What you have to do if you want to add a bookmark is to tap the Share icon as shown below in red.

Once the Share menu opens, you'll be able to then add the current website to your bookmarks or Favorites. You also have the option to add a site to your reading list, in case you want to read it later, offline, or you can pin it to your Home Screen.

Once you know how to add bookmarks, you can rename them, add them to folders, or delete them.

To manage your Safari bookmarks on your iPhone or iPad, first tap the Bookmarks icon along the bottom row.

Now, in the bookmarks screen, tap the "Edit" button in the bottom-right corner.

Now the edit mode will appear. Next to each bookmark or folder there is a "-" symbol, which means you can tap it and delete stuff.

Tap the "New Folder" link, and you can create a new folder to stash new or current bookmarks. Give your new folder a catchy title and indicate where you want it to reside under the "Location" option.

When you tap "Location", your bookmarks structure will expand and you can tap where you want the new folder to go.

To edit any bookmark, you simply need to tap on one while in edit mode. The "Edit Bookmark" screen will open where you can then give any bookmark a new name, fix URL issues, and like new folders, place it in an appropriate location.

Finally, you may have noticed that while in edit mode, there are three gray bars that appear along the right edge of each bookmark or bookmark folder. These allow you to move stuff around, so if you want to reorder everything, just place your finger on these bars and drag it into the location you choose.

As you can see, adding, deleting, and editing bookmarks and bookmarks folders on Safari for iOS is pretty easy and once you know how to do it, we're sure you'll have your bookmarks named and arranged in exactly the order you see fit.

Daily Tip: How to improve the look of your home screen Safari bookmark icons

Wondering how to make your home screen Safari bookmarks (Web Clips) look better? If the site you visited hasn’t made the effort to create a proper home page icon, all you end up with is a screenshot of the webpage. If the page is mostly text it can look awful on your home screen. Well the good news is there is a work around that will allow you to improve the look of that icon. We’ll show you how, after the break!

iOS lets you customize the look of your home screen bookmarks.

• First visit a page you want to bookmark to your home screen in mobile Safari.

• Tap the Bookmark button on the toolbar and you will be presented with the Add to Home Screen option
• If you add it to the home screen now, it will just take a zoomed out screenshot of the page and will look poor on your home screen.

• Before tapping on the Bookmark button, zoom into an area of the webpage that will look the best on your home screen. I zoomed into the picture of the Land Rover in this instance.
• Now tap on the bookmark button and select add to home screen.

• The icon now has the area of the screen that you zoomed in on and it is a huge improvement to the previous example!
• It is far from being a perfect solution as the page will open up again zoomed in on the area you selected but it does improve the look of your webpage bookmark icons dramatically and is very simple to do!
• It also behaves strangely sometimes changing the icon after you have visited the site; it does however seem to revert back to the right icon after a few minutes......weird!

Bonus Tip: It's really much better if a site creates a special, custom icon for home screens, so if you come across a site that hasn't yet, just send them over to TiPb. We've got a complete how-to written up to show them how to make one for their site ! So there you have it, a simple way of improving the look of Safari bookmarks on your home screen.  If you have any other home screen tips for us, let us know in the comments!

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Got a pesky home screen bookmark on your iPhone that you just can’t seem to get rid of? No worries, removing that bookmark is a breeze with iOS 17. In less than a minute, you can declutter your home screen and say goodbye to any unwanted bookmarks. It’s almost as easy as tapping your screen a couple of times!

You can also check out this video about h ow to delete a home screen bookmark on an iPhone for more on this topic.

Step by Step Tutorial: Deleting a Home Screen Bookmark on iPhone

Before we dive into the nitty-gritty, let’s clarify what we’re about to do. Following these steps will permanently remove a bookmark from your iPhone’s home screen. This won’t delete the website from your Safari history or bookmarks list, so you can still access it there if needed.

Step 1: Locate the bookmark you want to delete

Find the home screen bookmark that you want to get rid of.

Sometimes, bookmarks can get lost in the sea of apps and folders. If you’re having trouble finding your bookmark, try using the search feature by swiping down on the home screen and typing in the website’s name.

Step 2: Press and hold the bookmark

Tap and hold the bookmark until a menu pops up.

When you press and hold the bookmark, you might notice all your apps start to jiggle. This is called “jiggle mode,” and it means you’re in the right place to start making changes to your home screen.

Step 3: Tap on ‘Delete Bookmark’

In the menu that appears, select ‘Delete Bookmark.’

Be sure you want to remove this bookmark, because once you hit ‘Delete Bookmark,’ there’s no going back. If you’re sure, go ahead and tap it!

Step 4: Confirm the deletion

You’ll be asked to confirm that you want to delete the bookmark. Hit ‘Delete’ to confirm.

This is the last checkpoint! If you’re having second thoughts, you can always select ‘Cancel.’ But if you’re ready to clean up your home screen, tap ‘Delete’ to finalize the process.

Once you’ve completed these steps, the bookmark will vanish from your home screen, leaving you with a tidier digital space. Don’t worry; this won’t affect the website’s data, nor will it remove any of your saved login information if you have any. The bookmark simply won’t be accessible from the home screen anymore.

Tips for Managing Home Screen Bookmarks on iPhone

• Long-pressing a bookmark can also give you the option to edit it if you want to keep it but change the name or URL.
• Group similar bookmarks into folders for a more organized home screen.
• If you accidentally delete a bookmark, you can always add it back by opening Safari, finding the website, and selecting ‘Add to Home Screen.’
• Remember that deleting a bookmark from the home screen won’t delete it from Safari’s bookmarks.
• Regularly review your home screen bookmarks to keep your digital workspace clutter-free.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do i add a bookmark to my iphone home screen.

Open Safari, navigate to the website you want to bookmark, tap the share icon, and select ‘Add to Home Screen.’

Will deleting a home screen bookmark also delete it from my Safari bookmarks?

No, removing a bookmark from the home screen will not delete it from your Safari bookmarks list.

Can I undo a bookmark deletion on my iPhone’s home screen?

Once you confirm the deletion, it cannot be undone. However, you can always add the bookmark again manually.

Is there a limit to how many bookmarks I can have on my home screen?

There is no set limit, but too many bookmarks can make your home screen look cluttered. It’s best to keep only the most frequently used bookmarks on the home screen.

Can I organize my home screen bookmarks into folders?

Yes, you can drag and drop similar bookmarks on top of each other to create folders for better organization.

• Locate the bookmark
• Press and hold the bookmark
• Tap on ‘Delete Bookmark’
• Confirm the deletion

Deleting a home screen bookmark on your iPhone is a great way to maintain a neat and organized digital space. With iOS 17, Apple has made it super simple to remove those bookmarks that you no longer need with just a few taps. Remember, though, that this will only remove the bookmark from your home screen, not from Safari or your device’s memory.

Our digital lives can get just as cluttered as our physical ones, and it’s important to take some time every now and then to declutter and reorganize. By following the steps outlined in this article, you can start to take control of your iPhone’s home screen and customize it to better suit your needs. Whether you’re a power user or just someone who likes a tidy screen, knowing how to manage your home screen bookmarks is a valuable skill in the digital age.

So go ahead and give your iPhone home screen the attention it deserves. It’ll not only look better, but it’ll make finding your favorite websites a breeze. And who knows, maybe decluttering your digital space will inspire you to tackle that junk drawer next! Happy organizing!

Matthew Burleigh has been writing tech tutorials since 2008. His writing has appeared on dozens of different websites and been read over 50 million times.

After receiving his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science he spent several years working in IT management for small businesses. However, he now works full time writing content online and creating websites.

His main writing topics include iPhones, Microsoft Office, Google Apps, Android, and Photoshop, but he has also written about many other tech topics as well.

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