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Safari is a popular web browser among Apple users with a host of features to make your browsing experience enjoyable and efficient. One of these features is the ability to save web pages for later viewing, even offline. In this article, we’ll explore the different ways to save a web page on Safari and the benefits of each method.

Understanding Web Page Saving Options in Safari

Before we dive into the different ways of saving web pages on Safari, it's important to understand the various options available and what they entail. The options include bookmarking, saving as a PDF, saving as a web archive, and saving as an HTML file.

Bookmarking vs. Saving Web Pages

Bookmarks are a way of marking web pages you’d like to visit later. They’re saved in the bookmark bar on your browser for easy access. Saving a web page, on the other hand, entails creating a copy of the page on your device for offline reading. Depending on your preference, you can either bookmark or save the page.

It's worth noting that bookmarking a page is a good option if you want to access it quickly and easily without having to go through the search process again. However, if you want to access the page offline or share it with someone who doesn't have internet access, saving the page is the better option.

Supported File Formats for Saving Web Pages

It's worth noting that not all file formats are supported when saving web pages. Safari can save pages as PDF, web archive, and HTML files. Saving as a PDF or web archive preserves much of the page's formatting and functionality, while HTML files contain the source code of the page only.

When saving a page as a PDF, you have the option to select which pages you want to save, and you can also choose to include hyperlinks and other interactive elements. This makes it a great option if you want to keep a record of a particular page, or if you want to share it with someone who doesn't have access to the internet.

Web archives, on the other hand, are a bit like a snapshot of the web page at the time it was saved. They include all the text, images, and other media on the page, as well as any links and other interactive elements. This makes them a great option if you want to preserve the entire page, including its functionality, for offline viewing.

HTML files, on the other hand, are essentially just the source code of the page. While they don't include any of the formatting or interactive elements of the page, they can be useful if you want to view the code behind a particular page or if you want to use it as a template for your own website.

In conclusion, understanding the different ways to save web pages in Safari can help you make the most of your browsing experience. Whether you choose to bookmark a page for quick access or save it for offline viewing, knowing the options available to you can help you get the most out of your browsing experience.

Saving a Web Page as a Bookmark in Safari

Let's start with bookmarking. Here's how to add a bookmark:

How to Add a Bookmark

While on the page you want to bookmark, tap the Share icon on the Safari toolbar.

From the Share menu, select "Add Bookmark."

Edit the bookmark name and choose where you want to save it.

Tap "Save."

Organizing and Managing Bookmarks

With bookmarks, you can create folders and subfolders to organize your saves and make them easily accessible. To edit a bookmark or folder:

Tap the Bookmarks icon in Safari.

Tap "Edit" in the bookmark or folder you want to edit.

Make the necessary changes and tap "Save."

Saving a Web Page as a PDF in Safari

PDF files are a versatile format supported by most devices. Here’s how to save a web page as a PDF on Safari:

Using the Export to PDF Feature

While on the page you want to save as a PDF, tap the Share icon on the Safari toolbar.

From the Share menu, select "Export to PDF."

Choose where to save the file and edit the name if necessary.

Annotating and Editing the Saved PDF

Once you’ve saved the PDF file, you can edit or annotate it using various apps on your Apple device. Some popular apps include Notability and Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Saving a Web Page as a Web Archive in Safari

Web archives contain a complete copy of the page, including its media, stylesheet, and script files. Here's how to save a web page as a web archive:

How to Save a Web Archive

While on the page you want to save as a web archive, go to "File" on the Mac menu bar.

Select "Save as" and choose the location you want to save the web archive to.

Choose "Web Archive" as the file format and enter a name for the file.

Click "Save."

Accessing and Viewing Web Archives

To view a web archive, you'll need to open it in Safari. Here's how:

Open Safari on your Mac.

Go to "File" on the menu bar and select "Open File."

Select the web archive file you saved earlier.

Saving a Web Page as an HTML File in Safari

If you're only interested in saving the page's source code for later use, you can save it as an HTML file. Here's how:

Saving the Complete Web Page

While on the page, go to "File" on the Mac menu bar.

Select "Save As" and choose the location you want the HTML file to be saved in.

Choose "Web Page, Complete" as the format and enter a name for the file.

Saving Only the HTML Source Code

If you only want to save the source code of the page:

Right-click on the page and select "View Page Source" from the context menu.

Copy the page's source code to a text editor or IDE and save it as an HTML file.

That's it! With these different methods, you can save your favorite web pages on Safari for offline viewing or future reference. Having this knowledge should help you make informed decisions on the best way to save web pages based on your needs and preferences.

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How to Save a Web Page as a PDF in Safari on the Mac

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What to Know

  • In Safari, open a web page and go to File > Export as PDF . Follow the on-screen prompts to name the file and select a storage location.
  • Alternatively, press Command + P in Safari. Select the PDF drop-down menu, choose Save as PDF , and then select Save .
  • Press Shift + Command + R in Safari to open the Reader . Saving a PDF in Reader downloads a cleaner-looking PDF.

It's easy to export a web page to a PDF file with the Apple Safari web browser on the Mac. When you save a web page to PDF, you can share it so that the information looks identical to how it appears on the website. All PDF files look the same on a computer, tablet , phone, or another device. PDFs are also an alternative to printing the web page .

How to Export a Web Page as a PDF in Safari

It takes a few clicks to convert a web page to a PDF file with Safari.

Open the web page you want to save to PDF.

Go to the File menu and choose Export as PDF .

In the window that appears, enter a name for the PDF file and choose where to save it.

Select Save to save the web page as a PDF.

How to Print a PDF From a Website in Safari

Another way to save a web page as a PDF file is to print the page to PDF.

This feature is available in most web browsers.

Navigate to the page you want to save.

Go to the File menu and select Print .

The keyboard shortcut is Command + P .

Go to the lower-left corner of the print window and select the PDF drop-down arrow.

Select Save as PDF .

Enter a title for the PDF and choose where to save it.

Select Save .

Make a Cleaner PDF in Safari

Use Reader mode to remove ads for a cleaner appearance when saving a page as a PDF. It makes sites easier to read and simpler to save.

Reader isn't available for every website.

Navigate to the site you want to save.

Go to the View menu and choose Show Reader . Or, press Shift + Command + R on the keyboard. If the Show Reader option is gray, it isn't available for the current page.

To activate Reading Mode in earlier versions of Safari, select the three-line icon next to the URL.

A pared-down version of the page opens in Reader. Save the page as a PDF or print it as a PDF to keep a copy of the page.

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The 12 Best Ways to Save Webpages

You’re browsing the web with Safari on your Mac. You come across a page that you want to save for future reference. How do you do this? Or, more to the point, what’s the best way to do this?

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The answer is not as obvious as you might think. The answer is (as it is so often in life): it depends. Without working up a sweat, I came up with a dozen different ways to save all or part of a webpage. Each one has its own pros and cons. To help figure out which one is best for your situation, here are your choices:

1. Create a tab or open a new window

When to do it. Technically, you are not actually saving a page here. You’re merely keeping the page open in Safari. This works best when you don’t intend to keep the page around for any length of time. It’s just that you want to click a link to go to another website and wish to temporarily maintain easy access to the current page (without having to depend on the Back button).

How to do it. Control-click on a link. From the menu that appears, select Open in New Tab or Open in New Window. Alternatively, select Safari’s New Window or New Tab commands, located in the File menu; this opens a new page from which you can enter a URL in the address bar. 

The main downside of this approach is that the page may get “lost” before you are done with it — if you have to quit Safari or if the program crashes. These days, however, such loss is easily avoided. If you have your Mac set to restore previously open document windows , the pages should return when you next launch Safari. Otherwise, I recommend the Sessions Safari extension for saving the current state of your browser. As a last resort, you can use your History list to locate lost pages.

A secondary downside is that Safari has a irritating tendency to periodically force a reload of currently open pages. If the page has any data that would be lost in a reload (such as entries to a form you are filling out), or if the page has been updated in the interim, the prior content will almost certainly be gone.

In any case, don’t use this technique to excess. To my dismay, my wife often keeps a dozen or so windows open in Safari, each with 8 or 9 tabs. This begins to slow down Safari, eventually to a point where the program becomes unusable.

2. Save the page as a bookmark

When to do it. With this method, rather than saving the page itself, you’re saving its URL. Still, this is ideal if you expect to frequently return to a page and typically want to see its latest content (such as the home page here at TMO). 

How to do it. When the page is open, select Add Bookmark… from the Bookmarks menu. Or select the same command from the Sharing menu (accessed from the “arrow in a rectangle” icon in the Toolbar). After doing so, you select the bookmark to return to the page.

3 . Save the URL as a “web internet location” file

When to do it. As with a bookmark, you’re just saving the URL here. However, you’re saving it as a file in the Finder rather than as part of Safari. As such, you can launch the page at any time simply by double-clicking the file’s icon. Assuming you don’t care if the page gets updated, the URL file has the advantage of taking up far less drive space than saving the actual page.

How to do it. From Safari’s address bar, click-hold on the mini-icon to the left of the URL and drag it to the Desktop (or other desired Finder folder).

The main downside of this approach, compared to saving the actual page, is that you have no offline access.

4. Save the page as a “Web Archive” file  

When to do it. This is the method that I use most often. It’s great for when you want to save content “permanently” to your drive. For example, whenever I find an article with a OS X troubleshooting tip that I want to remember, I save the page as a web archive and put it in a Mac Tips folder on my drive. Now, any time I double-click the file, it re-opens in Safari, looking exactly (or almost exactly) as when I saved it.

Safari's Save dialog

Safari’s Save dialog

How to do it. Select Save As… from the File menu. Make sure “Web Archive” is the selected Format. Click Save. Done.

The potential downside here is that, if you want updated content (such as reader comments added to an article after you saved it), you won’t get it. Also, you may have a bit of trouble finding the page’s URL later (as the archive file does not preserve it). Lastly, this method is less than ideal if the content you want to save spans several pages (such as a long article from a magazine) and the site offers no option to display the content as a single page.

5. Save the page as a “Page Source” view

When to do it. This saves the page as HTML. While you probably don’t care to view the HTML code directly, you can open the file in a text editing app, such as OS X’s TextEdit, and see the page similarly (although not exactly) to how it looks in Safari. The advantage here is that, from TextEdit, you can edit the content. You can’t do this from a web archive file. Editing can be useful if you want to save most of the content of a page, but strip out items such as links and advertisements.

How to do it. Select Save As… from the File menu. Select “Page Source” as the Format. Click Save.

6. “Print” the page as a PDF

When to do it. This is an alternative to saving a page as a Safari web archive. You’ll prefer this if you want to be able to view the page in an app other than Safari — or save the page in a format that can be viewed on an iOS device.

How to do it. Select Print from Safari’s File menu. Click the PDF menu button in the lower left and select Save as PDF. If you want instant access to the PDF from your iOS devices, save it to a Dropbox folder (assuming you have one). I do this to have copies of documents, such as airline boarding passes, available from my iPhone.

Going in the other direction, if you have Printopia installed on your Mac, you can use the Print command in Safari on your iOS device to save a page as a PDF file back on your Mac. To do so, tap the Print button from Safari’s Share menu on your iOS device. Select the desired Printopia “virtual printer” option and tap the Print button.

7. Save to Reading List

When to do it. If you don’t like the idea of dozens of web archive or PDF files cluttering up your drive, Reading List is a great alternative. It’s also good for when you want saved files to be automatically accessible across both Mac and iOS devices, especially for offline reading.

Safari's Reading List

Safari’s Reading List feature

How to do it. From the Bookmarks bar, click Safari’s Reading List button (it looks like a pair of glasses). From the column that appears on the left, click Add Page to add the current page to the list. Alternatively, you can select Add to Reading List from the Sharing menu (again, as accessed from the Toolbar icon). You can now select any of the Reading List pages to view them — even if you are not connected to the Internet.

Mobile Safari on iOS devices can also add items to the Reading List. To do so, tap the Sharing icon (at the top left of the screen) and select Add to Reading List.

If you use iCloud, Reading List items can sync across all devices that are logged into your iCloud account.

Although you can use this for long-term storage of articles, I don’t. Rather, I mainly use it when I want to read a page later — such as when I’m on a trip and save an article from my iPad to read later on my Mac. After reading the article, I usually delete it.

If you don’t like Safari’s approach here, try  Instapaper . This software, which includes an archive function and a capability similar to Safari’s Reader feature, can be accessed from any web browser or from its own iOS app.

8. Copy text

When to do it. Sometimes you only want to save a snippet of text from an article, such as a quote. To do so, you needn’t save the entire page.

How to do it. Select the text you want to save and hit Copy. You know the rest. Otherwise, you can click-drag the selected text to your Desktop to save it as a clipping file.

9. Copy image

When to do it. The idea here is the same as for text. The only difference is that you’re saving a graphic image, such as a photo.

How to do it. Some sites (such as flckr.com) have specific options for saving images. When that’s not available, the solution is to click-drag the image to your desktop. Or you can Control-click on the image and select Copy Image from the menu that appears; you can then paste the image into a document of whatever app you want.

To save graphics from Safari on an iOS device, tap and hold your finger on the image; from the menu that appears select Save Image. The graphic is saved to your iOS device’s Camera Roll.

10. Take a screenshot

When to do it. Sometimes, because of the coding behind a webpage, click-dragging an image doesn’t work. In this case, you can still make a copy of the image, via OS X’s built in screen capture function.

How to do it. Press Command-Shift-4. Using the crosshair cursor, drag an outline around the image you want to save. Alternatively, you can use a third-party utility, such as Snapz Pro , which allows you take still shots and record video.

11. Download the content

When to do it. Sometimes what you want to save is not a web page but a PDF file or a QuickTime movie or some other media contained on the page. You can often save these items by directly downloading them to your drive (typically, they wind up in your Downloads folder by default).

How to do it. If you are viewing the media content as a web page, such as can happen with PDF files, the Save As… command may do the trick. Otherwise, Control-click the item or its link. From the menu that appears, select the appropriate command, such as “Save Linked File to Downloads” or “Save Linked File As” or “Download Video.” Finally, if no option to save the content presents itself (as may happen with YouTube videos and other streaming content), there are various apps and services that can work-around this; but that’s a subject for another article.

12. Print the pages

When do it. I already mentioned using the Print command to save a file as a PDF. Of course, you can also use Print to actually print the page to paper.

How to do it. From Safari’s File menu, select Print. From the sheet that drops down, select Print again. If the webpage requires several paper pages to print, you can select to print only the page(s) you want.

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3 Easy Ways to Save a Webpage as a PDF Using Safari on a Mac

Here are three quick and easy ways to export a website as a PDF on your Mac. You can even get rid of all the ads beforehand!

Surfing the internet will lead you to interesting reads that you may want to return to later or save as a future reference. There are many ways to do this—from bookmarking the page, to adding it to your reading list, to taking screenshots, or to printing the entire webpage.

With your Mac, however, you can easily export a webpage as a PDF using Safari and save it to your documents. Here’s how to do it.

1. Save a Webpage Exactly How It Looks on Safari

If you want to quickly convert a Safari webpage into a PDF on your Mac, without the need to customize it, do the following:

  • While on Safari , go to the menu bar and click File .
  • Scroll down to Export as PDF .
  • In the popup window, rename the file and choose the save location.

Remember that saving a webpage in this manner will give you an exact PDF version of the webpage, which includes all the menu bars, buttons, ads, and reading suggestions. Though, some of the formatting may change slightly in the PDF to how it appears on your screen.

2. Save a Webpage Without the Distractions

If you find all the ads and buttons unappealing and distracting, you can create a clean PDF copy of the webpage with all the clutter. To do this:

  • From Safari , click View > Show Reader .
  • Then repeat the above process: Go to File > Export as PDF > Save .

Aside from the cleaner look, saving a webpage from Reader View renders the PDF in pages instead of a single scrollable strip, similar to how saved pages look when you save full-page screenshots of webpages on your iPhone .

3. Save a Customized PDF Using Safari

If you only want to save specific sections of the webpage instead of the entire thing, you can use this method:

  • In Safari , go to File > Print .
  • Check the specific pages that include the sections you want to save on the page preview.
  • Under Pages , input the pages of the PDF you want to save.
  • Click the dropdown menu at the bottom, then choose Save as PDF .
  • Rename and choose the file destination before hitting Save .

Like saving web pages from Reader View, saving your PDF in this manner will give you a PDF with several pages instead of a single strip of webpage screenshot.

If you don’t want to include the webpage’s background, just uncheck the box beside Print backgrounds . This is helpful if you plan to print the PDFs and don’t want your printer to waste a ton of ink on the background.

You can also get rid of the headers and footers by removing the check mark beside Print headers and footers .

Keep a Copy of Your Favorite Webpages for an Accessible Read

With Safari, not only can you save PDF copies of your web pages for later reading, you can even customize them to keep a reader-friendly version of it. With this feature, you can save web pages for offline reading for a more accessible read.

How to save a Safari webpage or text to the Notes app on Mac, iPhone, and iPad

Learn how to save Safari webpages or text to your Mac, iPhone, and iPad Notes app for quick reference and organization.

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There’s no easier way to capture a note from Safari than with the Notes app. Whether you’re doing research for school or work, planning a trip or event, or just want to make a note of an article, Apple’s integration makes it simple.

Save a Safari web page link to Notes

You can either bookmark a web page right in your browser or save it to Notes if that’s your jam.

You have two quick ways to add a Safari page to Notes on your Mac. So use whichever is most comfortable for you. And if you don’t see the Notes option, you may have to update your Mac Share Menu .

  • Click File from the top menu bar and click Share > Notes .
  • Click the Share button from the top right of the Safari toolbar and pick Notes .

You’ll see the link icon displayed in the note automatically. But you can type in more text above or below it if you like.

Next to Choose Note , you can select a spot for your note or add to an existing one.

  • Below New Note , at the top of the pop-out, you can select one of your Folders . And from there, you can pick a subfolder if you like. Conveniently, each pop-out has the New Note option right at the top.
  • Beneath Folders, you’ll see your Pinned notes indicated by the pin icon. So, adding to one of those is a breeze.
  • Finally, you have the rest of your notes. You can add to a Shared note , and those have a contact symbol next to them.
  • The only limitation you have is if you want to add to an existing Locked note. If you try, you’ll see that the note is grayed out and thus un-clickable.

Choose a Notes Location in Safari on Mac

But for the most part, no matter where you want the note, a folder or subfolder, new or added to an existing one, you’re covered.

If you have a lot of folders, subfolders, and notes, you can use the handy Search box to find one quickly.

Search for a Notes Location in Safari on Mac

On iPhone and iPad

Sharing a page from Safari to Notes on your iPhone and iPad can be done as quickly and easily as on Mac. Tap the Share button and choose Notes in the second row of your Share Sheet. If you don’t see Notes, select More to add it, or check out our how-to for updating your Share Sheet on iOS .

You can do a quick Save to send the note to your default Notes account with the link icon. Or tap New Note and then find a folder or subfolder.

  • Each folder and subfolder has your notes sorted with Pinned at the top and the remaining Notes at the bottom.
  • Shared notes have the contact icon like on Mac, and Locked notes are grayed out and cannot be selected.
  • The Create New Note button is at the bottom of each screen, and the Search box is at the top.

Choose a Notes Location in Safari on iPhone

Save Safari web page text to Notes

If you’re going through a website in Safari and find some important text, here’s how to save that text to the Notes app.

  • Select the text on the Safari web page and right-click .
  • Choose Share and select the Notes app.
  • You will see the actual selected text in the small window. It will be saved as a new note, but you can click the Choose Note option and add it to an existing note.
  • Finally, click Save .

Save Safari web page text to Notes on Mac

  • Open Safari, visit the website, and select the text you want to add to a note.
  • After selecting the text, a thin menu strip will pop out. Tap the arrow button here and then tap Share .
  • Select the Notes app from the iOS Share Sheet.
  • Optional : Tap New Note and choose an existing note or folder where you want to save this note.
  • Finally, tap Save .

Save Safari web page text to Notes on iPhone

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How to Save a Full Page or 'Scrolling Screenshot' as a PDF on iPhone and iPad

In iOS, Apple has extended the system's built-in screenshot feature to include the ability to save a full web page or "scrolling screenshot" as a multi-page PDF.

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  • Launch the Safari app on your iPhone or iPad .
  • Navigate to the web page that you wish to save as a multi-page PDF.

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  • A preview of the screenshot will pop up in the lower left of the display. Tap it to open up the Instant Markup interface. You'll have about five seconds before it disappears.
  • Tap the Full Page tab in the upper right corner of the Markup interface.
  • To save the PDF, tap Done and then tap Save PDF to Files . To share the PDF, tap the Share button (the square with an arrow pointing out) and select how or who to share it with from the Share screen.

Note that you can also use Markup to edit your PDF before saving or sending it.

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How To Save A Web Page To Read Offline On Safari

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Apple users that are inclined to stick to the brand's slate of default apps often prefer to use Safari for their web browsing needs too. Since its inception , the built-in browser has grown its list of features to include faster loading times, better privacy protection, and 4K video streaming, among other things. Those who own multiple Apple devices can seamlessly use Safari across all their gadgets, as it syncs everything accessed on the web browser — bookmarks, tabs, and passwords. If you are a Safari fan and want to see web content offline, you can do so by utilizing the "Reading List" feature.

When saving a site on Safari, you have two options to choose from: saving the page as a bookmark or adding it to your Reading List. Both methods offer similar access, but the latter is a more convenient method to save timely content, like articles, but you don't want to keep forever. You can easily keep track of the links you've already read, which you can remove from the list page when desired.

What makes Safari's Reading List function worth exploring is that it lets you read saved content even if you don't have internet connectivity , and the process is quite easy. So whether you're off the grid, intentionally minimizing your online app consumption, or are in a place or situation that has limited data service, you can still go through your must-read list of website articles on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac computer.

How to read offline Safari web pages on an iPhone

Adding web pages to Safari's Reading List is useful whether or not you're connected to the internet. The steps are similar on the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch:

  • Launch Safari and open a web page you'd like to read.
  • Tap the Share button (square with an upward arrow icon)
  • Select "Add to Reading List" from the list of options.

If this is the first time you're accessing the feature, you may see a pop-up message that will ask if you want to automatically save articles added to the Reading List for offline reading. Choose "Save Automatically" so that anything you save in the list going forward will be downloaded onto your Apple device. If you don't see the pop-up, you can enable offline reading by going to your iOS gadget's "Settings," scrolling down and tapping "Safari," then enabling "Automatically Save Offline" under the "Reading List" section.

If you are reading an article that has embedded links you'd like to go through later, you can also add them to the Reading List without opening them  or interrupting your current read. Just long-press the link and select "Add to Reading List" from the menu that pops up onscreen.

To view any web page saved into the Safari Reading List, simply launch the app, tap the bookmark button (open book icon) and navigate to the Reading list tab (eyeglasses icon). To find the article link you'd like to view, you can click on "Show All" to view a complete list of added links, or "Show Unread" to isolate pages that you have not viewed and start reading. Once you're done, pull up the Reading List again via the bookmark icon, go to the right tab, and swipe left to delete it from the list or swipe right to mark the page as unread.

How to use Safari's Reading List to save web pages for later on a Mac

Managing your Safari Reading List on a Mac or Macbook offers a bit more functionality compared to accessing it on an iOS device. In addition to being able to add and remove web pages from the list, you can also hide links you've already read and even hide the Reading List entirely from view and see it again by clicking the sidebar icon in the left toolbar of Safari. Here's how you can add and save a Safari webpage on the Mac or Macbook:

  • Hover over the URL box and click the (+) icon on the left side of the link field to automatically add it to the reading list.
  • If you chance upon an embedded link while reading an article you want to get to later, simply shift-click on the web page link to quickly add it to the reading list.

To ensure that web pages added to Safari's Reading List on a Mac can be read without an internet connection, pull up the Safari sidebar, navigate to the Reading List tab, control-click the summary of the chosen web page, then select "Save Offline." If you'd like to save all the web pages added to the list going forward, click "Safari" from the top menu to go to "Settings," then go to the "Advanced" tab and check the box next to "Save articles for offline reading automatically."

Once you have links saved into Safari's Reading List, you can easily search for specific articles by using the search field at the top of the list of web page summaries in the Safari sidebar. When you reach the end of a web page, it will automatically take you to the next link listed in the Reading List, so there's no need to click on the next one from the sidebar.

Ensuring Safari Reading List links are available offline

Before you lose Wi-Fi or mobile data access or go someplace without internet connectivity, you can test Safari's underrated offline feature  to see if the web pages in the Reading List are actually sufficiently downloaded for reading. Ensure that all settings related to automatically saving web page content for offline reading are enabled within Safari's settings. Then you can turn off your cellular data and Wi-Fi and try viewing a saved web page.

In some cases, when you launch a saved web page, you might see an error that says "Cannot Open Page" because it is not available for offline reading. This could be because there wasn't enough time for Safari to save the web page completely. Wait a few minutes after adding the link to the Reading List so that all the page elements can download.

If you wait for a few minutes and it doesn't fix the error, it's possible that the page you're trying to save doesn't allow offline reading (via Reddit ). To diagnose this, try saving an Apple web page instead and viewing it after turning off internet connectivity. If you are able to access it offline with no hiccups, then that means Safari is able to save links to the Reading List for offline reading, but not the specific one you were trying to read earlier.

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How should you save web pages in safari.

The Internet is frighteningly ephemeral. The site you found so useful today may have vanished next week, and the chances of it still being there in a couple of years may be slim. This article looks at how best you can keep a more permanent record of individual pages, rather than whole sites, including longer-term archiving.

Other browsers offer different options, but in current releases of Safari your choice for saving web pages includes:

  • File/Save As…/Page Source to save the page as a single HTML source file.
  • File/Save As…/Webarchive to save the page as a single Webarchive file.
  • File/Export As PDF… to save the page as a single PDF file, in display format.
  • File/Print…/Save as PDF to save the page as a single PDF file, in print format.

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This is the smallest and least complete version of the four, as it contains the HTML source of the page, and omits all linked and similar generated content. For relatively plain pages containing text exclusively, this can be useful, but that is now appropriate for few pages. The saved file can be opened in Safari or another browser, and so long as none of the linked content is missing or changed, you should see the original page reconstituted faithfully.

This is almost certainly not what you’d want as a more permanent record such as an archive.

This is an opaque file format that assembles the entire content of the page, including embedded images and other content, but not linked downloadable files, in a single incomprehensible text file.

Although this format is peculiar to Safari, it has limited support by some other browsers, which can read it, and a few utilities which can, for instance, convert a Webarchive to PDF. However, with a single exception, those utilities are now old and their future uncertain. It’s probably best to consider this format as being proprietary to Safari.

I’ve not been able to find any description of the format which could be used to implement a third-party reader, and as it doesn’t appear to comply with any open standard, the format may well have changed over the last few years. In the past it has been well-supported by the macOS API, but currently all those existing calls to work with Webarchive files are marked as being deprecated by Apple , so are likely to be removed whenever it wishes, making it impossible to use those deprecated calls in future versions of macOS.

The good news, though, is that Webarchives are now making their way into Apple’s open source WebKit. Currently, support is limited to writing but not reading them from WKWebView from macOS 11 onwards, but hopefully that will be extended in the future.

Because Webarchives contain all linked content, and are encoded in text representation of binary data, they’re by far the largest of the four options. They’re probably the best way to save web pages for the time being, but their format may well not be supported in just a few years, so they’re unsuitable for archives intended to last more than that period.

In case you weren’t aware, there are two different routes in Safari to turn a webpage into a PDF document: directly using the Export As PDF… menu command, and indirectly via the Print… command then saving as PDF from the Print dialog. The results are quite different.

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Exporting as PDF creates a document in which the entire web page is on a single PDF page, which may not be what you had in mind. The advantage of this is that the PDF is one continuous page without any breaks, and is a faithful representation of what you see in your browser, complete with its original layout and frames. The disadvantage is that this won’t print at all well, imposing page breaks in the most awkward of places. Very long pages can also prove ungainly, and difficult to manipulate in PDF utilities.

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Printing to PDF breaks the web page up into printable pages, and splits up frames. What you end up with isn’t what you see online, but could at a push be reassembled into something close to the original. That isn’t too bad when the placement of frames isn’t important to their reading, but if two adjacent columns need to appear next to one another, this layout is likely to disappoint. It is the best, though, for printing, with headers and footers and page numbering too.

Recently some have remarked that PDFs generated from Safari lose their embedded links. That shouldn’t happen: well-constructed web pages should preserve all their original links when viewed as PDFs.

PDF documents are easy to create in macOS, as Safari uses Quartz graphics to render web pages, and PDFKit is also part of Quartz graphics. The two alternatives result from Safari rendering its displayed content through PDFKit, or rendering its content as prepared for printing.

While PDF is one of the preferred formats for archiving laid-out documents, it’s worth bearing in mind that standard macOS PDF isn’t compliant with any of the PDF/A standards for archival documents. You’d need a high-end PDF editor such as Adobe’s Acrobat (Pro) CC to prepare and save to any of those.

Conclusions

  • Save As…/Page Source is of limited use, mainly for text-only pages without embedded content such as images.
  • Save As…/Webarchive is excellent for day-to-day use, being complete and faithful, but isn’t an open standard and its future may be limited. It’s therefore not recommended for archival purposes.
  • Export As PDF… is excellent for day-to-day use, complete and faithful, but for serious archival use needs to be converted to comply with an archival standard in the PDF/A series.
  • Print…/Save as PDF is an alternative most suitable if you’re going to want to print the document out.

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A few comments on things that may or may not be obvious.

1. Some websites use an @media rule that makes the page display differently when printed, so Export as PDF and Print / Save as PDF might produce very different-looking results.

2. Two related options are Export as PDF and Print / Save as PDF from the Reader View, which is often the best choice for searchable, easy-to-read PDFs with small file sizes.

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Thank you. Howard

Thanks for the useful information. You said “Webarchive. This is an opaque file format that assembles the entire content of the page, including embedded images and other content, but not linked downloadable files, in a single incomprehensible text file”.

In my experience, sometimes linked downloadable files (or links in general) do not work as you said, but other times they do. In other words, sometimes such links point to the original source (and work), but other times they point to where you saved the “.webarchive” file in your disk (which can be seen hovering the arrowhead mouse pointer over such links in the saved “.webarchive” file once opened by Safari). I think that the issue stems from the way the original web pages were built.

Thank you. That’s a bug, I think, although whether that’s in the page or Safari isn’t easy to work out. Howard

My understanding is that the chief characteristic of PDF/A is that it does NOT embed any of the 13 most common computer typefaces — that is, the thirteen most common at the time the standard was developed. This was not to enhance its value as an archive but as a means to slightly reduce file size — a negligible benefit nowadays. PDFs by Apple, by contrast, seem to embed ALL fonts, which makes them SUPERIOR as an archiving format. About the only use for PDF/A nowadays seems to be to fool people into thinking they’ve embedded all fonts when they haven’t. It’s a very common myth among self publishers, for example. Trying to use such files for commercial printing, they can run into all kinds of trouble. If there’s a convincing reason to still use PDF/A for anything at all, I’d honestly love to hear it.

Thank you. Well, my understanding, and that detailed in Wikipedia’s account , is the exact opposite: all fonts used must be embedded, as the goal is to produce a standalone file which doesn’t rely on external font resources of any kind. Whether you like any of the four variants of PDF/A or not, they’re established ISO standards which are widely used for archival purposes. In fifty or a hundred years time, they’re the most likely to still be fully accessible and supported, which is their purpose. They’re not intended for print or pre-print, so only the seriously misguided would try using them for that purpose. As I’m sure you’re well aware, there are other PDF standards in PDF/X which are intended for that, but not for archiving. Using the right tools and standards for the purpose is very important when you’re looking into the more distant future, assuming humans ever get there. Howard.

This is exactly the disagreement I had recently in a Facebook author group, which ended with the author creating a test file and discovering for himself that I was correct. The omission of the most common fonts — like Times New Roman and the others that Microsoft made profilic — is not a secret. It’s the way the format was explicitly described by Microsoft when they introduced saving as PDF/A into Word. Anyway, you may wish to test this for yourself, because if you’re using this for archiving, you may not be getting what you think.

By the way, my comment about authors using PDF/A was not meant to say they SHOULD be able to use it — obviously, that’s a mistake from the beginning — but that PDF/A files often were rejected or caused characters to go missing specifically because not all fonts were embedded — exactly opposite to what the authors expected and the reason they were told the format would work for them. Often this showed up in characters like list bullets or numbering, which Word renders by default in a font not chosen by the author. One reason that PDF/X is recommended for printing is that, by contrast with PDF/A, it DOES embed all fonts, with no exceptions, because the files are not meant just for viewing on the desktop. Unfortunately, most authors do not have Acrobat Pro for preflighting, so they never checked the embedding in their PDF/A files.

Well, Howard, I learned something new. It turns out we’re both right. You’re right that the standard requires all fonts to be embedded. However, “not all PDF/A creation products respect the requirement to embed the 14 Adobe base fonts.” (See https://www.soliddocuments.com/iso-19005-1-compliance.htm?subject=6.3.4 ). So, yes, PDF/A should have all fonts embedded, but that’s not what you always get. You would have to test your specific app for compliance. And Microsoft apparently fails to comply, or at least did for some time. (Big surprise.)

Thank you. I wrote unambiguously: “While PDF is one of the preferred formats for archiving laid-out documents, it’s worth bearing in mind that standard macOS PDF isn’t compliant with any of the PDF/A standards for archival documents. You’d need a high-end PDF editor such as Adobe’s Acrobat (Pro) CC to prepare and save to any of those.” The word “Microsoft” doesn’t appear anywhere in this article. This article is about Safari, which isn’t and never has been a Microsoft product. Microsoft doesn’t offer any product which could in the wildest stretch of the imagination be described as “a high-end PDF editor”. Howard.

If you open the developer console, you can choose the exact node you want to print, right click and choose print to PDF, this allows you to print the exact frame you want.

I use reader view and then send to DEVONthink via context menu. I did a keyboard shortcut (CMD+D) and directly sent to DT that way.

In combination with DT, you could capture the web in “Formatted Note”, that is a all-in-one embedded HTML page compatible with all Web Navigators (even under Windows). It is a completely self-contained file similar to Webarchive but completely standard.

I’d suspected that the WebArchive format might be an Apple-only thing, thanks for the confirmation.

These days I use the Web Clipper that comes with DEVONthink to grab web pages that I may want to refer back to later, partly because it’ll work regardless of which browser I’m using (currently Firefox), and partly because it supports a range of capturing options, not just WebArchive but also Markdown text and PDF document. For some of those options there is also the ability to produce a ‘clutter-free’ version, similar to what you’d get using Reader view.

Usually this works without issue, but I’ve found it prudent to hit the Preview button in the Web Clipper to check what is being captured (not all capture formats support this option, alas.) Depending on the site and page design, information may be omitted or not present at all. Sometimes turning off ‘clutter-free’ resolves this, but in some cases I’ve had to resort to saving pages as PDF files from the Print dialog.

Most of the time I use WebArchive, but that is only used as an intermediate step — anything I want to keep for reference gets reviewed, tidied up if necessary, then converted to PDF in DEVONthink.

I find it deeply ironic that the ‘old web’ presents the least resistance to saving information for archival. Alas, a lot of ‘modern’ web site creation seems to produce pages that lack the semantic markup required to capture the pertinent information, or worse still refuse to display at all without JavaScript or cookies.

When I’m developing a talk I’m going to give, I’ll try to use Reader View and the PDF link from the print dialog in Safari. As Alan Ralph said it produces a “clutter-free” output. It also has the link to the page at the bottom for future reference. Sometimes the output pdf has missing bits the page breaks. In these cases I use Safari’s Paper Size option in the print dialog to make longer page lengths. I have a saved set of several LetterX2 (8.5X22), LetterX4 (8.5X44), etc. These enable making a set of pdf’s I can use to copy a bits from the web page and I have the reference to use in my talks. It also doesn’t require any other software.

I can recommend the “Single File” Extension for Firefox and Chrome. It produces a single file with media encoded inside the HTML for portability.

https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

There is a comparison of different archiving file formats in the README as well.

https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile#file-format-comparison

Unfortunately it does not support Safari at this time. Likely because of Apple’s restrictive distribution policy for WebExtensions. Safari is able to open the files produced by Single File, as it’s standard compliant HTML and CSS.

I wholeheartedly second this recommendation. I’ve been using the SingleFile extension with Vivaldi for some time now, and I love how it creates neat single files that perfectly preserve the page layout, preserve text as text (instead of just being an image), all while using a standard format that every browser can render.

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Thank you, but the title of this article establishes that this is about Safari, which remains the most popular browser on Apple’s products. I’m also not sure what you’re referring to when you write “preserve text as text (instead of just being an image)”. Both Webarchive and produced PDF do exactly that, and preserve page layout too. I don’t know of any direct way of rendering Safari’s web pages into text as images, do you? The reason for that is Quartz, used by Safari to render pages on the display, which handles text as text and not as images. Howard.

I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to distract from the article itself and the valuable analyses you have done regarding the various options that Safari provides in this area.

The HTML files that SingleFile creates are, of course, fully compatible with Safari, and I personally only save a web page every week or two, so briefly switching to a different browser to save a web page would not be much of an inconvenience. So my thinking was that if I used Safari instead of Vivaldi or if SingleFile was only available for Safari, I would still use the extension to save web pages, even though I would have to briefly switch browsers.

This is largely driven by my personal preference to save web pages as HTML and not PDF, though, and I might have gotten carried away a bit by my enthusiasm for how well the SingleFile extension matches my personal needs and preferences.

The “preserve text as text (instead of just being an image)” part was not referring to any of Safari’s options, but to saving a full web page as an image file (i.e., basically as a screenshot of the whole page). Vivaldi has a built-in function to do this and there are extensions for other browsers to do the same. This gives you a pixel-perfect representation of what you saw, but having the web page’s text stored as pixels in a bitmap image instead of as actual text is, of course, a pretty big downside.

Thank you. No problems, and no need to apologise. It’s worth remembering that Safari uses Quartz to render pages to both the display and to PDF files, so the results should be essentially identical. Other browsers might work differently. Howard.

Also good is Evernote’s Web Clipper extension which saves various selections, including links. My primary browser is Brave, but I have the EN extension installed in Safari as well. Seems to work reliably.

The good news about Webarchives is that most applications that preview any document will preview webarchives, on Macs of course. I archive web pages in webarchive format and store them in DevonThink for later processing. DevonThink allows EDITING of webarchives in a WYSIWYG fashion, after which you can keep as a webarchive or convert to HTML or to PIXEL PERFECT PDFs. I highly recommend DevonThink for manipulating webarchives. PathFinder is useful for viewing them. Some Linux webkit based browsers will open archives ( I think MIdori does ) and/or Safari for Windows can be run under WINE to view webarchives directly in Linux.

Thank you. Yes, as I wrote, other apps can access Webarchives. But that doesn’t make them suitable for archival use, to access the content in 5-50 years time. Apple could help this by making the format an open standard, which would allow anyone in the future to access them. Sadly, of the formats which Safari can currently write to, only PDF has that property, and even then needs to be made conformant with one of the PDF/A standards to be reliable. Howard.

Howard, thank you (personally) for pursuing this. Unfortunately I’m really busy this morning so I can’t keep up with all the comments, but I’d like to ask about this:

“Because Webarchives contain all linked content…”

I’m guessing this means a webarchive could present the original page, nearly complete, if opened on a Mac that is not connected to the Internet?

One other benefit of a webarchive is it will show the page in the Finder’s QuickLook (space-bar) feature.

My inclination is to use Webarchives to save important pages (despite their size), with the hopes that there will be a utility in the future that can convert them to something more open. And even if a future version of Safari can’t open them, as a last resort someone could set up a virtual machine with an older OS that contains a copy of Safari that can. Better than nothing.

Yes – that’s the purpose of the format, to be as self-contained as possible. It would be really helpful if Apple were to make this an open standard. Howard

Thank you yet again for seeding new articles which appear to be organically based on issues raised in the comments section of others, such as the one on archiving.

I am in the market for a new roof on my house and the salesperson was on his way. I quickly needed to print out an entire thread of conversation about metal roofs from the NextDoor website, a social media service for neighborhoods to discuss various topics of concern to residents in the USA.

In iOS, nothing captured the entire thing properly. A quick search revealed a 3rd party app called Instaweb, which prints web pages after rendering them in its own built-in browser. It got the job done quickly and flawlessly so I thought I would mention it as an option. There are other apps, but this one has good feedback ratings.

Thank you – yes, that’s a good way round when you’re stuck. Thankfully I very seldom have to dig my printer out and power it up now. Most of the time I just tell others that I don’t have one, and it’s amazing how they can be more flexible than they had been! Howard.

Often when I want to save a web page I open the sharing menu in Safari, choose “Mail” and just save the mail without sending it. I then drag the draft mail to the appropriate folder – so I use Mail folders as (part of my) archive solution. Since I archive the majority of my (sent and received) mails anyway this just extends that. I either need to be in Safari reader mode or I need to copy stuff from the website and manually paste into the mail.

However this has the disadvantage that Mail doesn’t save the image data within the mail, but only links. If images vanish from the website, Mail cannot show them anymore. Thus sometimes I drag images from Safari to the Finder desktop, and then drag them from there into my mail. This will embed the real image data and not just a link.

If a website has lots of images, this is too much work. I then select the main body (trying to omit as much advertisement as possible) from the website, copy it (cmd-c), paste it into a new Textedit window, and save the file as .rtfd. This will change the formatting of the web page a bit, but usually the result is pretty good. I always drag the website address into the first line of the file (or mail) to have a link to the original web page right on top. I prefer RTF over PDF because I can better edit the file (correcting typos, adding comments, deleting ads…), and the filesize is much smaller (especially after deleting unwanted stuff).

So the other half of my archive (outside Mail) is a bunch of folders with more RTF than PDF files.

Thank you. I agree in principle that RTF would be preferable to PDF, although it’s best for web page content which you’re going to edit, rather than save as a record. Howard.

I appreciated this comprehensive-as-always article on saving webpages. Thank you for the work you put into compiling it.

Thank you. Howard.

Nobody’s mentioned `wget`, which will download the HTML source and graphics to local storage (and, optionally, linked files).

I find it useful on occasion.

I appreciate, by the way, that this is off-topic for an article about saving web pages *from Safari*. I just mention it as a possibility for times when the four methods mentioned will not do.

Safari is a good browser but not suitable for archiving, even more on “modern” sites (layout problems, etc.)

The only “page save” use i’ve with Safari is to save pages as PDFs that I view in reading mode (pretty good for this browser). Even if it’s not PDF/A standard (useless for this use).

The webarchive format was still an interesting format a few years ago, but not anymore. And since we really don’t know how Apple wants to evolve with this format and its use in macOS and in WebKit…

Ideally, Apple should create a new simple, open and documented archiving format. Or at least it brings the missing elements in WebKit to support archiving extensions present in other browsers. Maybe one day…

— [ Off Topic] In the meantime, like others here, I use the SingleFile webextension with other browsers and the tools provided by Webrecorder (backup in .warc in particular, the website archiving format used by the Wayback Machine or National Library archivists) :

https://github.com/webrecorder/archiveweb.page

Thank you for the thorough review of printing that has generated an interesting discussion. I have a few things to add. 1. Some web pages are already paginated even when displayed. In that case, using Export as PDF retains the page breaks. 2. When you use Export as PDF, the URL is kept in the metadata. It appears as ‘Where from’ if you do a Get Info on the pdf. Obviously, this is not included if you print to pdf. 3. The web site printfriendly.com offers a service that can create usable pdf’s from complex web pages. When you use it, it offers a preview that you can edit by deleting portions of the page you don’t want included in the pdf, such as advertisements. They have a browser extension (including for Safari) that makes it easy to use. It is a web service, so there are privacy implications, but they have a clearly written disclosure page on their site.

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How to Save Webpage as PDF Using Safari on iPhone & iPad

Are you looking to save a webpage or multiple webpages as PDF files to your iPhone or iPad? There are many reasons you might want to do this, perhaps you’re wishing to save a webpage receipt as a PDF for record keeping, to archive a page, or to access a web page offline. Fortunately, Safari makes it easy to convert webpages into PDF files.

The ability to create PDF from webpages in Safari was first introduced with the release of iOS 11. However, the steps needed to access the same has been slightly tweaked if you’re running a newer version of iOS like iOS 15, iOS 14, and iOS 13. The advantage of having PDF files of webpages is that they can be viewed even when you’re not connected to the internet and they can also be easily printed out. Plus, you can share it with your colleagues along with other files. So let’s check out creating a PDF from a webpage by using Safari on iPhone or iPad.

How to Save Webpage as PDF with Safari on iPhone & iPad

The following steps are applicable if your iPhone or iPad is running iOS 13/iPadOS 13 or later. On the other hand, if your device is running an older software version, you can follow this method instead .

How to Save Webpage as PDF Using Safari on iPhone & iPad

That’s all you needed to do. You’ve successfully saved the current webpage as a PDF file on your iOS/iPadOS device.

The “Save to Files” option will only show up in the share sheet if you’ve selected the PDF format from the Options menu. This setting will be reset once you exit the share sheet. So, if you’re looking to save multiple webpages, you’ll need to repeat the above steps for each one of them.

If you’ve saved the PDF file in an iCloud Drive directory, it’s worth pointing out that the file will be accessible from all your other Apple devices as well, provided you’re signed into them with the same Apple account.

The saved webpage can then be shared as a file from the Files app instead of a webpage, which can then be viewed even offline by the recipient. The PDF file will follow the format of “Safari – (Date of Creation) – (Time of Creation).pdf”, but you can easily rename it according to your preference within the Files app .

Keep in mind that if the webpage had ads or other page styling, the downloaded PDF files will also show those ads or page styling. However, if you don’t want that kind of stuff in your saved PDF, you can switch to reader view in Safari and then follow the same steps to save it without any ads, page clutter, or styling elements.

Did you convert any webpage to a PDF file, or save webpages as a PDF file to your iPhone or iPad? What is the purpose you use this feature for? Do you use another approach? Let us know your experiences and thoughts in the comments.

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This is really helpful, thank you.

This technique does not work with all webpages. Some webpages do not allow saving or printing.

Whilst this works, 1) It only includes a single page. 2) Margins are blotting out key page content.

I am on Android for the past 4 years but if memory serves me correct you can: expert > print > ping OUT on the print preview > export there > do whatever you want.

Hey, this is really useful! Thanks! I have previously used the method of printing to PDF, then reverse pinch, tap the share box on that one & save. Which works about as well (maybe in all apps that can print), but so very not-obvious.

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How to Save Articles & Web Pages to Your Safari Reading List for Offline Viewing

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In Apple's Safari browser on your iPhone and iPad, you can add an article or web page you want to save to your Reading List. The Reading List on your iPhone and iPad is a Safari feature that makes it easy to come back later and read all your saved articles. With iOS 11 and later, iPhone and iPad owners can tell Safari to save articles to read later, even offline, without internet access. This is an easily overlooked feature that’s actually really cool. We've already shown you how to enable Safari Reader mode , so you can look at web pages without ads. Now, here’s how to save web pages and articles on your iPhone and iPad with the Safari browser for online or offline reading. We'll also cover how to find your Reading List, so you can keep reading no matter what your location.

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How to Save Articles to Your Safari Reading List on Your iPhone & iPad for Online & Offline Viewing

Once you learn how to save articles from the Safari browser to your Reading List for online and offline reading, you'll never be without something to read ever again! Let's begin by learning how to change your iPad and iPhone settings so you can save articles and web pages for offline reading. Then we'll go over how to save an article to your Safari Reading List. For more great tutorials about navigating the web on your iPhone and iPad, check out our free Tip of the Day . 

How to Save Your Safari Reading List for Offline Viewing

If you want to read your saved articles and web pages even when you’re offline and without internet, you’ll need to complete this step first.

  • Open the Settings app .

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How to Save an Article or Webpage to the Safari Reading List on Your iPhone & iPad

To save an article to your Reading List in Safari: 

  • Open the Safari app .

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How to Access the Reading List on Your iPhone & Read Articles Offline or Online 

Now that you've saved articles and web pages to your Reading List, you'll need to know how to find them!

  • To view your Reading List, tap the Book icon at the bottom of any page in your Safari browser.

tap the book icon to open your safari favorites and reading list

That’s all there is to it!

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Last Updated: May 25, 2022

This article was co-authored by Luigi Oppido and by wikiHow staff writer, Nicole Levine, MFA . Luigi Oppido is the Owner and Operator of Pleasure Point Computers in Santa Cruz, California. Luigi has over 25 years of experience in general computer repair, data recovery, virus removal, and upgrades. He is also the host of the Computer Man Show! broadcasted on KSQD covering central California for over two years. This article has been viewed 244,091 times.

This wikiHow teaches you how to save the contents of a webpage to your computer, phone, or tablet. Saving a webpage is different than bookmarking it, as it makes the page available for offline viewing—this is useful when you want to capture the page's content indefinitely without having to worry about it changing or being removed.

Using a Web Browser on a Computer

Step 1 Open the webpage that you want to save.

  • By default, the file will be named the same as the title of the page, but you can choose something different if you'd like.

Step 4 Choose a saving format.

  • Webpage, single file creates one file (with the .mthml file extension) that contains the current page's contents and images. This is a great choice to capture everything at once.
  • Webpage, complete also downloads the entire webpage, but places all images into a separate folder.
  • Webpage, HTML only saves the HTML code, which doesn't include any images—just the raw code, which you can use as reference for your own webpages.
  • Web archive saves everything on the page, including the pictures, in the .webarchive format. All content will be in this single file.
  • Page source saves just the HTML code, which is only useful if you want to use that page's code as guidance for your own webpage. [1] X Research source

Step 5 Open the saved webpage.

  • If you saved the page as a .mhtml (Webpage, single file) or .webarchive (Web Archive), you can double-click that file to open the page in your default browser. [2] X Research source
  • If you saved the "Complete" version of the page, you'll have both a file and a folder with the same name inside the folder you selected in the last step. Double-click the file ending in .html or .htm in the folder you selected to view the page in your browser. Be sure to keep the associated media folder in the same location as the .html file—if you move either the .html file or the folder elsewhere, the saved webpage won't load any images.
  • If you're offline and the page you saved has streaming video, the video will not load until you connect to the internet again.

Using Safari on an iPhone or iPad

Step 1 Open the website you want to save in Safari for iOS.

  • If you save as a PDF, you can open the file on any device, including PCs, Macs, and Androids, but you won't be able to click or tap links—it works more like an image than a webpage.
  • Web Archives create a file that works more like a regular web page—you can open it in Safari on any of your Apple devices, and click or tap links like a website. If you send it to someone on a PC, they may have to convert it into a different format to view it, or they may not be able to open it at all.

Step 5 Tap Back.

  • To view your saved file, open the Files app, go to the location you saved the file, and tap the file to open it.

Using Chrome on an Android

Step 1 Open the website that you want to save in Chrome for Android.

  • To view the saved PDF, open the app called Downloads (or browse to the Downloads folder in your file manager) and tap the PDF.

Archiving an Entire Site on a Computer

Step 1 Download and install HTTrack.

  • You can download HTTrack for free from https://www.httrack.com . It is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Step 2 Open HTTrack and click Next.

  • If the site requires you to log in, enter that information into the blanks.

Step 6 Click OK.

  • By default, HTTrack will follow every link on the website and download the content that it finds, but it will only stay on the website that you set. This keeps HTTrack from downloading the entire internet to your computer.

Step 9 View your archived site.

  • If the site had streaming video, you won't be able to view it unless you have an internet connection.

Expert Q&A

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  • Save webpages when you plan on traveling or when you will not have access to Wi-Fi or an Internet connection for an extended period of time. Webpages can be accessed offline, and can be viewed at any time without an Internet connection. Thanks Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0
  • Save a webpage when it contains important information that you will need to access, reference, or use at a later date. Saving a webpage will capture the page contents indefinitely, even if a webmaster were to go in and either delete webpage content or make modifications. Thanks Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0

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  • ↑ https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/save-part-or-all-of-a-webpage-ibrw1089/mac
  • ↑ https://osxdaily.com/2017/08/18/save-webpage-archive-safari-mac/
  • ↑ https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/7343019?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en-GB&oco=0
  • ↑ https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-save-a-webpage-as-a-pdf/

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How to save an offline copy of a web page on an iphone or android smartphone.

Smartphones still don't have Internet connections everywhere -- and, even if they did, there are times you'll want to save a copy of a web page.

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Smartphones still don't have Internet connections everywhere -- and, even if they did, there are times you'll want to save a copy of a web page. Modern iPhones and Android phones allow you to save copies of web pages so you can refer to them later.

If you want a copy of a full web page, save it as a PDF. This is ideal for receipts, tickets, maps, and anything with just more than text. If you just want the text of an article to read later, there are other easy solutions.

Apple just recently added a new way to do this on iOS 9. While viewing a web page, tap the "Share" button -- it looks like a square with an up arrow coming out of it -- and tap the "Save PDF to iBooks" icon.

You can then open the iBooks application and view a PDF copy of the web page at any time, even when you're offline. It'll appear under "My Books", and there's a special "PDFs" category that contains your saved PDFs.

Related: How to Print From an Android Phone

On Android, you can use the built-in printing support and print the page to a PDF just as you should on a Windows PC or Mac.

Let's say you're viewing the web page in the Chrome app. Tap the menu button at the top-right corner of the Chrome app and tap "Print".

You'll see a print preview interface. Tap the "Save to" menu at the top of the screen and select "Save as PDF" to save a copy of the web page as a PDF file to your phone's local storage. You could also select "Save to Google Drive" to save a copy of the web page as a PDF and store it in Google Drive. You could then open the Google Drive app, long-press that PDF file, and tap the pin icon to keep it available offline.

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Safari's built-in "Reading List" feature allows you to save a copy of a web page's text for later. Note that this only works with the text -- it's useful for saving a text-based article to read later, but it won't save anything else.

This is a bit like making a bookmark in Safari, but -- unlike a bookmark -- you also get a local copy of the text on that web page. Just tap the "Share" button in Safari and tap "Add to Reading List".

You can then tap the "Bookmarks" button in Safari, tap "Reading List", and tap the title of the web page to access it offline. Safari may eventually dump the local cache of the web page, so this isn't a good idea for long-term archival. It's just a convenient way to save an article that you might want to read when you're somewhere you don't have an Internet connection. Swipe to the left on the page in your reading list and tap "Delete" to remove it.

Related: How to Use and Tweak Reader Mode in Safari

On an iPhone, you can tap the "Reader View" button in Safari  and get a slimmed down view of the current web page -- just the text and other important elements. After you do, you can tap the "Share" button and tap "Mail". Safari will put the entire text of that article into an email, and you could email it to yourself. You could then open the Mail app and access the locally cached copy of that email later.

Safari will share the entire text of the web page with any application you choose, so you could share it with another application, too.

Related: The Best Ways to Save Webpages to Read Later

If you want to save just the text of a web page, you're better off doing it with Pocket or another read-it-later application , like Instapaper. Save the article to Pocket (or a similar app) and the application will download a copy of the article's text and keep it offline. It's a more powerful and robust solution than using the reading list feature in Safari or emailing the article to yourself.

Many of these same tricks work on your computer, of course.  Windows 10 includes integrated PDF printing , and so do Mac OS X, Chrome OS, and other modern operating systems. You can also use Pocket on your computer and have it automatically download the text of articles for offline-enabled reading on your phone.

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How to delete your Safari history on Mac, iPhone, or iPad

  • Clearing your Safari history removes cookies and reduces online tracking.
  • The process for deleting web history is different for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
  • You can use Private Browsing Mode to prevent web history from being saved.

From accessing your bank account on a shared computer to Googling embarrassing queries, there are a number of reasons to want to clear out your search history. Deleting your history on Safari removes your trail of web browsing, but the process also does more than clear out potentially embarrassing websites.

Clearing your history will also remove associated cookies from the web browser, reducing the number of ways you are being tracked online. While clearing your web history only removes cookies from Safari and not third-party websites that already have your data, it can still be helpful to reduce online tracking. Clearing the related cache can also sometimes fix bugs.

Deleting a web history from Safari isn't a terribly complicated process, but the steps are a bit different if you are using a MacBook , iPad , or iPhone . The steps for clearing several web pages and a single website are also different. Some privacy settings can also prevent you from deleting any web history, leaving the buttons you need grayed out.

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There are also a few tricks that can make the process simpler. For example, if you turn on iCloud for Safari, when you delete the history from your Mac, it will automatically be deleted from your phone and tablet too. If you know you want to delete your web history before you make a single click, you can use Private Browsing Mode instead.

Whether you are a murder mystery writer looking to eliminate search queries that would raise the eyebrows of any detective, or you want to reduce the number of cookies tracking you, this guide will tell you how to delete Safari history in a few simple steps.

How to delete Safari history on a Mac

Safari allows you to delete a lot of web history from a Mac or MacBook at once by allowing you to choose the dates for which you would like to erase. If you want to clear websites from the last hour, last day, last two days or all of your web history, this is the process to use.

  • Open Safari
  • From the top toolbar, click on History , then click Clear History.
  • In the pop-up window, use the drop-down menu to select the time period you want to clear from your history.
  • Click Clear History .

How to delete Safari history on an iPhone or iPad

The steps for clearing out your Safari history on an iPhone is quite different from using a Safari browser on a Mac. But, the process is the same across both iPhones and iPads, so these steps below work for both your phone and tablet.

  • Open the Settings app.
  • Select Safari.
  • Scroll down to the Privacy & Security section and select Clear History and Website Data.
  • On the next page, tap the time frame that you would like to delete the history for.
  • Optional: If you also want to close out of all open websites, tap the toggle for Close All Tabs.
  • Tap Clear History.

How to delete a single website from Safari history

Safari allows you to easily delete websites from the last hour, day, two days, or your entire web history easily. But, if you only want to remove a single website, you'll instead have to access your history, and then select the individual page to remove.

  • Open a Safari browser.
  • From the top toolbar, select History > Show All History. Or, you can use the keyboard shortcut Command + Y.
  • Select the website entry that you wish to delete. If that site was not visited today, you will need to tap on the date that you visited the website to find it or use the search bar at the top.
  • Right-click on the website entry and select delete.

On an iPhone or iPad:

  • Tap the Bookmark icon on the bottom (it looks like an open book).
  • Tap the Clock or History icon at the top of the page.
  • Locate the website that you wish to delete from your history -- your history is organized by the date you visited.
  • On the website you wish to delete, swipe left, then tap on the red trash icon.

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If you know that you'll want to delete the website that you are about to visit from your history, try using Private Browsing Mode instead. This mode does not save any website history, including search history and autofill information. That means you can do your online banking without going back and deleting your web history when you are done.

To use Private Browsing Mode on a Mac:

  • Open Safari.
  • On the top toolbar, go to File > New Private Window.
  • Use this new private window for browsing. You can quickly see if a Safari browser is Private because the field to type in the URL is dark gray instead of white.

To use Private Browsing Mode on iOS:

  • Tap the tab icon in the bottom left corner.
  • At the bottom of the screen, tap Private (swipe to see all the toppings in this toolbar if you do not see the Private option.)
  • Private browsing will have a dark gray URL field instead of white. To return to regular browsing, repeat the steps but this time swipe back to your open tabs.

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How to instantly clear your web history from multiple devices.

With iCloud , Safari can save your web browsing across all the devices that you use with your Apple ID. While that's helpful for quickly recalling a website no matter what device you first opened it with, it also syncs any deletions to the web history across your devices . That means if you delete a web page from your history on a Mac, it will automatically be deleted from your iPhone too -- as long as both devices are logged into the same Apple ID and iCloud for Safari is enabled.

iCloud for Safari can be enabled during the setup process for a new device, but it can also be turned on and off from the Settings app:

  • Tap on your Apple ID or name at the top.
  • Tap on iCloud.
  • Under Apps Using iCloud, select Show All . (If you are running iOS 15 or earlier, you may not see the full list already instead of the Show All option, in which case you can jump to the next step.)
  • Toggle on Safari from the list.

Why can't I clear my Safari history?

In some cases, the buttons that you need to tap to clear your Safari history are gray. But why can't you delete your Safari history, and how do you fix it? Here are a few common reasons why the Safari history options are grayed out:

  • You've already deleted your history and there are no more websites to clear out.
  • Web content restrictions are turned on. Some parental control settings prevent kids and teens from deleting their web history, while other content restrictions can also prevent you from deleting. To access the content restriction options, open the Settings app and go to Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions.
  • You are using Private Browsing Mode. This mode does not save your web history, so you have nothing to delete.

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Deleting your Safari history makes it difficult for the average person to recover the past websites that you have visited. However, if you are connected to your work or school network, in some cases the network administrator can still see your website access. Deleting your website history also may not fool a trained digital forensics expert during an investigation.

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  • Turn Sleep Focus on or off
  • View your sleep history
  • Check your headphone audio levels
  • Use audiogram data
  • Back up your Health data
  • Intro to Home
  • Upgrade to the new Home architecture
  • Set up accessories
  • Control accessories
  • Control your home using Siri
  • Use Grid Forecast to plan your energy usage
  • Set up HomePod
  • Control your home remotely
  • Create and use scenes
  • Use automations
  • Set up security cameras
  • Use Face Recognition
  • Configure a router
  • Invite others to control accessories
  • Add more homes
  • Get music, movies, and TV shows
  • Get ringtones
  • Manage purchases and settings
  • Magnify nearby objects
  • Change settings
  • Detect people around you
  • Detect doors around you
  • Receive image descriptions of your surroundings
  • Read aloud text and labels around you
  • Set up shortcuts for Detection Mode
  • Add and remove email accounts
  • Set up a custom email domain
  • Check your email
  • Unsend email with Undo send
  • Reply to and forward emails
  • Save an email draft
  • Add email attachments
  • Download email attachments
  • Annotate email attachments
  • Set email notifications
  • Search for email
  • Organize your email in mailboxes
  • Flag or block emails
  • Filter emails
  • Use Hide My Email
  • Use Mail Privacy Protection
  • Change email settings
  • Delete and recover emails
  • Add a Mail widget to your Home Screen
  • Print emails
  • Use keyboard shortcuts
  • Get travel directions
  • Select other route options
  • Find stops along your route
  • View a route overview or a list of turns
  • Change settings for spoken directions
  • Get driving directions
  • Report traffic incidents
  • Get cycling directions
  • Get walking directions
  • Get transit directions
  • Delete recent directions
  • Get traffic and weather info
  • Predict travel time and ETA
  • Download offline maps
  • Search for places
  • Find nearby attractions, restaurants, and services
  • Get information about places
  • Mark places
  • Share places
  • Rate places
  • Save favorite places
  • Explore new places with Guides
  • Organize places in My Guides
  • Delete significant locations
  • Look around places
  • Take Flyover tours
  • Find your Maps settings
  • Measure dimensions
  • View and save measurements
  • Measure a person’s height
  • Set up Messages
  • About iMessage
  • Send and reply to messages
  • Unsend and edit messages
  • Keep track of messages
  • Forward and share messages
  • Group conversations
  • Watch, listen, or play together using SharePlay
  • Collaborate on projects
  • Use iMessage apps
  • Take and edit photos or videos
  • Share photos, links, and more
  • Send stickers
  • Request, send, and receive payments
  • Send and receive audio messages
  • Animate messages
  • Change notifications
  • Block, filter, and report messages
  • Delete messages and attachments
  • Recover deleted messages
  • View albums, playlists, and more
  • Show song credits and lyrics
  • Queue up your music
  • Listen to broadcast radio
  • Subscribe to Apple Music
  • Listen to lossless music
  • Listen to Dolby Atmos music
  • Apple Music Sing
  • Find new music
  • Add music and listen offline
  • Get personalized recommendations
  • Listen to radio
  • Search for music
  • Create playlists
  • See what your friends are listening to
  • Use Siri to play music
  • Change the way music sounds
  • Get started with News
  • Use News widgets
  • See news stories chosen just for you
  • Read stories
  • Follow your favorite teams with My Sports
  • Subscribe to Apple News+
  • Browse and read Apple News+ stories and issues
  • Download Apple News+ issues
  • Solve crossword puzzles
  • Search for news stories
  • Save stories in News for later
  • Subscribe to individual news channels
  • Get started with Notes
  • Add or remove accounts
  • Create and format notes
  • Draw or write
  • Add photos, videos, and more
  • Scan text and documents
  • Work with PDFs
  • Create Quick Notes
  • Search notes
  • Organize in folders
  • Organize with tags
  • Use Smart Folders
  • Export or print notes
  • Change Notes settings
  • Delete, share, or copy a photo
  • View and edit Photo Booth photos in the Photos app
  • View photos and videos
  • Play videos and slideshows
  • Delete or hide photos and videos
  • Edit photos and videos
  • Trim video length and adjust slow motion
  • Edit Live Photos
  • Edit Cinematic videos
  • Edit portraits
  • Use photo albums
  • Edit, share, and organize albums
  • Filter and sort photos and videos in albums
  • Make stickers from your photos
  • Duplicate and copy photos and videos
  • Merge duplicate photos
  • Search for photos
  • Identify people and pets
  • Browse photos by location
  • Share photos and videos
  • Share long videos
  • View photos and videos shared with you
  • Watch memories
  • Personalize your memories
  • Manage memories and featured photos
  • Use iCloud Photos
  • Create shared albums
  • Add and remove people in a shared album
  • Add and delete photos and videos in a shared album
  • Set up or join an iCloud Shared Photo Library
  • Add content to an iCloud Shared Photo Library
  • Use iCloud Shared Photo Library
  • Import and export photos and videos
  • Print photos
  • Find podcasts
  • Listen to podcasts
  • Follow your favorite podcasts
  • Use the Podcasts widget
  • Organize your podcast library
  • Download, save, and share podcasts
  • Subscribe to podcasts
  • Listen to subscriber-only content
  • Change download settings
  • Make a grocery list
  • Add items to a list
  • Edit and manage a list
  • Search and organize lists
  • Work with templates
  • Use Smart Lists
  • Print reminders
  • Use the Reminders widget
  • Change Reminders settings
  • Browse the web
  • Search for websites
  • Customize your Safari settings
  • Change the layout
  • Use Safari profiles
  • Open and close tabs
  • Organize your tabs with Tab Groups
  • View your tabs from another device
  • Share Tab Groups
  • Use Siri to listen to a webpage

Bookmark a website

  • Bookmark a website as a favorite
  • Save pages to a Reading List
  • Find links shared with you
  • Annotate and save a webpage as a PDF
  • Automatically fill in forms
  • Get extensions
  • Hide ads and distractions
  • Clear your cache
  • Browse the web privately
  • Use passkeys in Safari
  • Check stocks
  • Manage multiple watchlists
  • Read business news
  • Add earnings reports to your calendar
  • Use a Stocks widget
  • Translate text, voice, and conversations
  • Translate text in apps
  • Translate with the camera view
  • Subscribe to Apple TV+, MLS Season Pass, or an Apple TV channel
  • Add your TV provider
  • Get shows, movies, and more
  • Watch sports
  • Watch Major League Soccer with MLS Season Pass
  • Watch multiple live sports streams
  • Control playback
  • Manage your library
  • Change the settings
  • Make a recording
  • Play it back
  • Edit or delete a recording
  • Keep recordings up to date
  • Organize recordings
  • Search for or rename a recording
  • Share a recording
  • Duplicate a recording
  • Check the weather
  • Check the weather in other locations
  • View weather maps
  • Manage weather notifications
  • Use Weather widgets
  • Learn the weather icons
  • Find out what Siri can do
  • Tell Siri about yourself
  • Have Siri announce calls and notifications
  • Add Siri Shortcuts
  • About Siri Suggestions
  • Change Siri settings
  • Set up Family Sharing
  • Add Family Sharing members
  • Remove Family Sharing members
  • Share subscriptions
  • Share purchases
  • Share locations with family and locate lost devices
  • Set up Apple Cash Family and Apple Card Family
  • Set up parental controls
  • Set up a child’s device
  • Get started with Screen Time
  • Protect your vision health with Screen Distance
  • Set up Screen Time for yourself
  • Set communication and safety limits and block inappropriate content
  • Set up Screen Time for a family member
  • Set up Apple Pay
  • Use Apple Pay in apps and on the web
  • Track your orders
  • Use Apple Cash
  • Use Apple Card
  • Use Savings
  • Manage payment cards and activity
  • Power adapter and charge cable
  • Use AirPods
  • Use EarPods
  • Use headphone audio-level features
  • Apple Pencil compatibility
  • Pair and charge Apple Pencil (1st generation)
  • Pair and charge Apple Pencil (2nd generation)
  • Pair and charge Apple Pencil (USB-C)
  • Enter text with Scribble
  • Draw with Apple Pencil
  • Take and mark up a screenshot with Apple Pencil
  • Quickly write notes
  • Preview tools and controls with Apple Pencil hover
  • Wirelessly stream videos and photos to Apple TV or a smart TV
  • Connect to a display with a cable
  • HomePod and other wireless speakers
  • iPad keyboards
  • Switch between keyboards
  • Enter characters with diacritical marks
  • Use shortcuts
  • Choose an alternative keyboard layout
  • Change typing assistance options
  • Connect Magic Trackpad
  • Trackpad gestures
  • Change trackpad settings
  • Connect a mouse
  • Mouse actions and gestures
  • Change mouse settings
  • External storage devices
  • Bluetooth accessories
  • Apple Watch with Fitness+
  • Share your internet connection
  • Make and receive phone calls
  • Use iPad as a second display for Mac
  • Use iPad as a webcam
  • Use a keyboard and mouse or trackpad across your Mac and iPad
  • Hand off tasks between devices
  • Cut, copy, and paste between iPad and other devices
  • Stream video or mirror the screen of your iPad
  • Use AirDrop to send items
  • Connect iPad and your computer with a cable
  • Transfer files between devices
  • Transfer files with email, messages, or AirDrop
  • Transfer files or sync content with the Finder or iTunes
  • Automatically keep files up to date with iCloud
  • Use an external storage device, a file server, or a cloud storage service
  • Get started with accessibility features
  • Turn on accessibility features for setup
  • Change Siri accessibility settings
  • Open features with Accessibility Shortcut
  • Enlarge text by hovering
  • Change color and brightness
  • Make text easier to read
  • Reduce onscreen motion
  • Customize per-app visual settings
  • Hear what’s on the screen or typed
  • Hear audio descriptions
  • Turn on and practice VoiceOver
  • Change your VoiceOver settings
  • Use VoiceOver gestures
  • Operate iPad when VoiceOver is on
  • Control VoiceOver using the rotor
  • Use the onscreen keyboard
  • Write with your finger
  • Use VoiceOver with an Apple external keyboard
  • Use a braille display
  • Type braille on the screen
  • Customize gestures and keyboard shortcuts
  • Use VoiceOver with a pointer device
  • Use VoiceOver for images and videos
  • Use VoiceOver in apps
  • Use AssistiveTouch
  • Use an eye-tracking device
  • Adjust how iPad responds to your touch
  • Auto-answer calls
  • Change Face ID and attention settings
  • Use Voice Control
  • Adjust the top or Home button
  • Use Apple TV Remote buttons
  • Adjust pointer settings
  • Adjust keyboard settings
  • Adjust AirPods settings
  • Adjust Apple Pencil settings
  • Control a nearby Apple device
  • Intro to Switch Control
  • Set up and turn on Switch Control
  • Select items, perform actions, and more
  • Control several devices with one switch
  • Use hearing devices
  • Use Live Listen
  • Use sound recognition
  • Set up and use RTT
  • Flash the LED for alerts
  • Adjust audio settings
  • Play background sounds
  • Display subtitles and captions
  • Show transcriptions for Intercom messages
  • Get Live Captions (beta)
  • Type to speak
  • Record a Personal Voice
  • Use Guided Access
  • Use built-in privacy and security protections
  • Set a passcode
  • Set up Face ID
  • Set up Touch ID
  • Control access to information on the Lock Screen
  • Keep your Apple ID secure
  • Use passkeys to sign in to apps and websites
  • Sign in with Apple
  • Share passwords
  • Automatically fill in strong passwords
  • Change weak or compromised passwords
  • View your passwords and related information
  • Share passkeys and passwords securely with AirDrop
  • Make your passkeys and passwords available on all your devices
  • Automatically fill in verification codes
  • Sign in with fewer CAPTCHA challenges
  • Two-factor authentication
  • Use security keys
  • Control app tracking permissions
  • Control the location information you share
  • Control access to information in apps
  • Control how Apple delivers advertising to you
  • Control access to hardware features
  • Create and manage Hide My Email addresses
  • Protect your web browsing with iCloud Private Relay
  • Use a private network address
  • Use Advanced Data Protection
  • Use Lockdown Mode
  • Receive warnings about sensitive content
  • Use Contact Key Verification
  • Turn iPad on or off
  • Force restart iPad
  • Update iPadOS
  • Back up iPad
  • Return iPad settings to their defaults
  • Restore all content from a backup
  • Restore purchased and deleted items
  • Sell, give away, or trade in your iPad
  • Install or remove configuration profiles
  • Important safety information
  • Important handling information
  • Find more resources for software and service
  • FCC compliance statement
  • ISED Canada compliance statement
  • Apple and the environment
  • Class 1 Laser information
  • Disposal and recycling information
  • Unauthorized modification of iPadOS
  • ENERGY STAR compliance statement

Bookmark a website in Safari on iPad

safari web pages save

Tap Add Bookmark.

Bookmark open tabs

Pinch closed with three fingers to view all your tabs.

Touch and hold one of your tabs, then tap Add Bookmarks for [ number of ] Tabs.

View and organize your bookmarks

the Show Sidebar button

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.

the Back button

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

The Reorder button

See your Mac bookmarks on iPad

safari web pages save

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 the Home Screen

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

the Share button

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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  1. How to Save Web Pages in Safari for OS X

    This article explains how to save a copy of a Safari web page to your hard drive or external storage device. Instructions cover the Safari web browser on Mac OS X operating systems. How to Save Web Pages in Safari for OS X . No matter your motive, Safari allows you to save pages in just a few easy steps. Depending on how the page is designed ...

  2. Save part or all of a web page in Safari on Mac

    Save an entire web page. In the Safari app on your Mac, choose File > Save As. Choose Format > Web Archive or Format > Page Source. Web archive: Saves all graphics, and links work as long as the destination web pages are available. Web archives are useful for temporary pages, such as receipts. Page source: Saves only the HTML source code.

  3. How to Save Web Pages in Safari

    Click the Format pop-up menu to choose the format for the saved page. Usually, you'll want to choose a Web Archive, which saves the entire page and can be displayed just as you see it. However, if you want to save just the HTML source code, choose Page Source.

  4. Save part or all of a webpage in Safari on Mac

    In Safari on your Mac, save text or an image from a webpage, or save the entire webpage. Also save the HTML source code.

  5. Save webpages to read later in Safari on iPad

    Safari. Browse the web; Search for websites; Customize your Safari settings; Change the layout; Use Safari profiles; Use Tab Groups. Open and close tabs; Organize your tabs with Tab Groups; View your tabs from another device; Share Tab Groups; Use Siri to listen to a webpage; Bookmark a website; Bookmark a website as a favorite; Save pages to a ...

  6. How to Save Web Page on Safari

    Safari is a popular web browser among Apple users with a host of features to make your browsing experience enjoyable and efficient. One of these features is the ability to save web pages for later viewing, even offline. In this article, we'll explore the different ways to save a web page on Safari and the benefits of each method ...

  7. How to Save and Download Text, Images, and Entire Webpages in Safari on

    To do this: Head to the menu bar, then click File > Save As. Rename the webpage and choose the file destination. Under Format, choose Web Archive if you want to save the text, images, and other content found on the page. Select Page Source if you only want to save the page's HTML source code.

  8. How to Save a Web Page as a PDF in Safari on the Mac

    In Safari, open a web page and go to File > Export as PDF.Follow the on-screen prompts to name the file and select a storage location. Alternatively, press Command+P in Safari.Select the PDF drop-down menu, choose Save as PDF, and then select Save.; Press Shift+Command+R in Safari to open the Reader.Saving a PDF in Reader downloads a cleaner-looking PDF.

  9. The 12 Best Ways to Save Webpages

    Select Save As… from the File menu. Select "Page Source" as the Format. Click Save. 6. "Print" the page as a PDF. When to do it. This is an alternative to saving a page as a Safari web ...

  10. 3 Easy Ways to Save a Webpage as a PDF Using Safari on a Mac

    To do this: From Safari, click View > Show Reader. Then repeat the above process: Go to File > Export as PDF > Save. Aside from the cleaner look, saving a webpage from Reader View renders the PDF in pages instead of a single scrollable strip, similar to how saved pages look when you save full-page screenshots of webpages on your iPhone. 3.

  11. How to save a Safari webpage or text to the Notes app on Mac, iPhone

    On Mac. Select the text on the Safari web page and right-click. Choose Share and select the Notes app. You will see the actual selected text in the small window. It will be saved as a new note, but you can click the Choose Note option and add it to an existing note. Finally, click Save.

  12. How to Save a Full Page or 'Scrolling Screenshot' as a PDF ...

    Tap the Full Page tab in the upper right corner of the Markup interface. To save the PDF, tap Done and then tap Save PDF to Files. To share the PDF, tap the Share button (the square with an arrow ...

  13. How to Save a Web Page as a PDF in Safari on Mac

    First, open Safari and navigate to the web page you'd like to save as a PDF file. In the menu bar at the top of the screen, select File > Export as PDF. A Save window will pop up. Type a file name (or leave the default name) and choose the location where you'd like to save the PDF file. When you're ready, click "Save."

  14. How To Save A Web Page To Read Offline On Safari

    If you'd like to save all the web pages added to the list going forward, click "Safari" from the top menu to go to "Settings," then go to the "Advanced" tab and check the box next to "Save ...

  15. How to Save Web Pages for Offline Reading in Safari on iPhone

    To do that, open "Settings" and tap on your name at the very top. Then tap "iCloud." In iCloud settings, scroll down until you see "Safari" and tap the switch to turn it on. If it's already on (the switch will be green), leave it that way. Now, we need to turn on the offline reading list option. Press back two times in the upper-left corner of ...

  16. How should you save web pages in Safari?

    Other browsers offer different options, but in current releases of Safari your choice for saving web pages includes: File/Save As…/Page Source to save the page as a single HTML source file. File/Save As…/Webarchive to save the page as a single Webarchive file. File/Export As PDF… to save the page as a single PDF file, in display format.

  17. How to Download a Webpage Archive with Safari for Mac

    Launch Safari on the Mac if you have not done so already. Open the webpage you wish to download for offline use and access, for example this current page. Go to the "File" menu in Safari and choose "Save As". Choose the "Format" pulldown and select "Web Archive" then choose to save the web page archive into the desired location.

  18. How to Save Webpage as PDF Using Safari on iPhone & iPad

    Launch Safari on your iPhone or iPad and head over to the webpage that you want to save as a PDF file. Now, tap on the share icon from the bottom menu. This will bring up the iOS share sheet. The link to the webpage will show up at the top of the share sheet. Here, tap on "Options" located next to the link. Now, simply select "PDF ...

  19. Save webpages to read later in Safari on iPhone

    Automatically save all Reading List items to iCloud for offline reading. Go to Settings > Safari, then turn on Automatically Save Offline (below Reading List). In Safari on iPhone, save interesting websites to your Reading List to read later. Access your Reading List even when you're offline.

  20. How to Save Articles & Web Pages to Your Safari Reading List for

    In Apple's Safari browser on your iPhone and iPad, you can add an article or web page you want to save to your Reading List. The Reading List on your iPhone and iPad is a Safari feature that makes it easy to come back later and read all your saved articles. With iOS 11 and later, iPhone and iPad owners can tell Safari to save articles to read later, even offline, without internet access. This ...

  21. 4 Ways to Save a Webpage

    Press Ctrl + S (PC) or ⌘ Cmd + S (Mac). This opens the Save Page window in all major web browsers. 3. Select a location to save the page. After saving, you'll find the page's HTML file here, as well as a folder containing all of the media from the page if you choose to save the complete page.

  22. Use Safari web apps on Mac

    How to change web app settings. Open the web app, click the app's name in the menu bar, then choose Settings from the menu. Application Name: Type a new name for the app. Application URL: Type a new URL for the app, or click Set to Current Page. Icon: Click the icon shown, then choose a new image from the file dialog that opens. That image becomes the new icon for your web app.

  23. How to Save an Offline Copy of a Web Page on an iPhone or Android

    Use Safari's Reading List on iPhone Related: 8 Tips and Tricks for Browsing with Safari on iPad and iPhone Safari's built-in "Reading List" feature allows you to save a copy of a web page's text for later. Note that this only works with the text -- it's useful for saving a text-based article to read later, but it won't save anything else.

  24. How to delete your Safari history on Mac, iPhone, or iPad

    On a Mac: Open a Safari browser. From the top toolbar, select History > Show All History. Or, you can use the keyboard shortcut Command + Y.; Select the website entry that you wish to delete.

  25. Bookmark a website in Safari on iPad

    Tap , then tap 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. Move a bookmark into a folder: Tap the bookmark, tap the Location, then tap a folder. Tap to return to your bookmarks.. Delete bookmarks: Tap . Rename bookmarks: Tap the bookmark, enter a new name, then tap Done.