How to Add a Favorite in Safari on Your iPhone & iPad

Learn how to add a website to Favorites in Safari on your iPhone or iPad, so you can find it again easily, rather than searching the web every time you want to reference it. Here's how to add a Favorite in Safari, as well as how to find your Safari Favorites.

Why You'll Love This Tip

• Learn how to save bookmarks and keep your most important Safari bookmarks in one place.
• Easily find your most frequently visited pages by making them Safari Favorites.
• Learn how to easily find your Safari Favorites.

How to Add a Site to Favorites in Safari on Your iPhone or iPad

There are a few ways to save pages from the Safari browser for future reference. We've shown you how to save articles and pages to a reading list, so that you can read them on or offline, and how to make bookmark folders in Safari. Now, let's go over how to add a Favorite in Safari on your iPhone or iPad, so you can easily visit your favorite pages.

Note: When you bookmark a page on your iPhone or iPad, the page is automatically saved to Favorites, but not every page I want to bookmark is actually one of my favorite sites or pages. My solution is to organize my regular bookmarks into bookmark folders by category, and save Favorites for my most frequently visited pages and websites.

1. Open the Safari app on your iPhone or iPad.
2. Tap the menu icon next to the URL.
3. Tap the Share icon.
4. Swipe up to find the Favorites option.
5. Tap Add to Favorites.
6. Change the website name above the URL if you want to.
7. Tap Save.

How to Find Safari Favorites on iPhone or iPad

After you've added to your Favorites list on your iPhone or iPad, here's how to find those Favorites:

1. To find your Favorites any time you need them, open the Safari app again.
2. If your app opens to a website instead of the Safari start page, tap the address bar to manually open the start page.
3. On the Safari start page, you'll see your Favorites listed.
4. To see all Favorites, tap Show All.
5. Now you'll see a list of all your Favorites. Tap the website or page you'd like to visit from your Safari Favorites.

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