Add a Bookmark in Safari

Bookmarks are essential to quickly navigating the web and finding your favorite places. They keep you from having to remember complicated addresses, and can be organized into various categories through the use of folders. Safari allows you to create and manage bookmarks with ease, whether you're on your computer or surfing from your iPhone or iPad. To learn how to add bookmarks, see Step 1 below.

Steps

Using Your Computer

  1. Open the website that you want to bookmark in Safari. While you can manually add bookmarks for any site to Safari, the quickest way to do it is to load the page that you want to bookmark.
  2. Add the bookmark. By default, bookmarks are added to your Bookmark Bar, which is located directly underneath the address bar. If your Bookmarks Bar is hidden, click View → Show Bookmarks Bar. There are a few different ways that you can add the page you are visiting to your bookmarks:
    • Click the Bookmarks menu and select "Add Bookmark..."
    • Click and drag the site's icon from the address bar into your Bookmarks Bar.
    • Press ⌘ Command+D
  3. Edit the bookmark information. When you add a bookmark, you will be able to edit the details before it is added. Safari will use the page's title as the default name for the bookmark, but you can change it to whatever you'd like. For example, many websites have a tagline attached to the title. Removing this from your bookmark's name will make your bookmark list less cluttered.
    • You can choose alternate locations for your new bookmark as well. By default, it will be placed in the Bookmark Bar, but you can place it in a different folder.
  4. Manage your bookmarks. When you have a lot of bookmarks, things can get lost or shuffled pretty easily. The Bookmark Bar can only display so many bookmarks, so creating multiple collections of bookmarks can save you a lot of headache.
    • Open the bookmark manager by clicking the Bookmarks menu and selecting Edit Bookmarks, or by pressing ⌥ Option+⌘ Command+B
    • Use this menu to organize your bookmarks by clicking and dragging them to new locations and creating folders to help your bookmarks structure.[1]

Using Your iPhone or iPad

  1. Open the website that you want to bookmark. Make sure that you are using the Safari app to open the site.
  2. Tap the Share button. This is located to the left address bar on the iPad, or the bottom of the screen on iPhone. It looks like a box with an arrow pointing upwards.
  3. Tap the Bookmark icon. The icon looks like an open book, and is located underneath the list of apps.
  4. Edit your bookmark details. When you tap the Bookmark icon, the pop-up window will change to the Add Bookmark window. You can change the name of the bookmark as well as the exact address.
  5. Set a location for the bookmark. Click the "Location" button beneath the bookmark name to set where the bookmark will be stored. You can choose from any existing folders.
  6. Create new bookmark folders. If you want to better-organize your bookmarks, you can add new folders to your bookmark manager. Tap the Bookmarks button in the Safari browser, and then tap "Edit" in the lower-right corner of the window that pops up.
    • Tap "New Folder" to create a new folder for future bookmarks. You can place new folders inside of other folders by tapping the Location button when creating the folder.
  7. Move your bookmarks around. From the bookmark manager window, tap Edit like you would if you were creating a new folder. You can then move the bookmarks around by touching the move icon (three horizontal bars) next to each entry, or change the location of the bookmark by tapping it and selecting a new folder from the Location button.
  8. Delete bookmarks. You can delete old bookmarks by opening the bookmarks manager and tapping Edit. Each bookmark will have a red icon next to the name. Tapping this icon will show the "delete" button, which will delete the bookmark when pressed.[2]

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Sources and Citations

  1. ↑ http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/adding-and-using-bookmarks-in-mac-os-xs-safari.html
  2. ↑ http://www.gottabemobile.com/2014/01/25/how-to-save-a-bookmark-in-safari-on-ios-7/
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