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  1. Turn Private Browsing on or off on your iPad

    Safari won't remember the pages you visit, your search history, or your AutoFill information. How to turn on Private Browsing. Open Safari on your iPad. Touch and hold the Tabs button. Tap New Private Tab. While Private Browsing is on, the Safari address bar appears black or dark instead of white or gray, and the buttons are black instead of blue.

  2. Turn Private Browsing on or off on your iPad

    Open Safari on your iPad. Touch and hold the Tabs button. Tap New Private Tab. While Private Browsing is turned on, the Safari address bar will appear black or dark instead of white or grey, and the buttons will be black instead of blue. How to turn off Private Browsing. Tap the Tabs button. Tap Private to show the Tabs Groups list.

  3. How to Do Private Browsing on Your iPad: A Step-by-Step Guide

    Step 4: Tap '+' to open a new tab. With private browsing active, tap the '+' button to open a new private tab. When you hit the '+' button, a fresh private tab springs to life, ready for your undercover online adventures. After completing these steps, your browsing won't be saved in your history, and cookies won't track you ...

  4. How to use tabs and private browsing in Safari for iPhone and iPad

    A quick swipe up from the Bottom Tab Bar on iOS 15 and newer gets you there even quicker. Tap the + button. How to open a new tab in Safari: Open Safari, tap the show pages icon, tap the + icon (Image credit: iMore) Alternatively, tap and hold the show pages icon, then tap New Tab. For those who like gestures, a quick swipe to the left on the ...

  5. 4 Ways to Open a Private Safari Tab on iPhone and iPad

    Use the Pages Button on Safari's Toolbar. A quick way to open a private tab in Safari is to use the "Pages" button on the bottom toolbar on your iPhone. Fire up Safari. Long-press or hard-press the "Pages" button (cascading squares icon). Select the "New Private Tab" option with a hand icon next to it from the menu that pops up.

  6. How to Use Private Browsing in Safari on Mac, iPhone, or iPad

    Alternatively, tap and hold the Tabs button in the bottom-right corner and tap New Private Tab from the popup menu that appears. A private browsing window in Safari on your iPhone or iPad says Private Browsing Mode at the top of the start page. The Smart Search Bar also appears with a dark gray background instead of white.

  7. How to Use Safari Private Browsing on an iPhone or iPad

    To activate Private Browsing, first launch Safari. If you don't see the toolbar at the top of the screen, tap anywhere once to reveal it. Then tap on the "New Window" button in the upper-right corner. On Safari's window management screen, tap the "Private" button in the upper-right corner. After Private Mode is enabled, tap the plus (+) button ...

  8. How to Quickly Switch Your Safari Browsing to Private in iOS 15

    In Safari, tap and hold the Tabs button in the bottom right. From here, you can use the " Private " option to switch over to the Private Browsing Mode. If you want to open a new private tab ...

  9. How to use Private Browsing in Safari on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

    Tap New Private Tab in the pop-up menu. Enable Private Browsing on iOS 16 and older. For iPhones running iOS 16 and older, follow these steps to access Safari Private Browsing mode: Open Safari on your iPhone. Tap the Tabs button (2 squares icon at the bottom of the screen). Tap [number] Tabs or Start Page to show the Tab Groups list.

  10. How to use Safari private browsing to boost your ...

    Open Safari on your iPad with iPadOS 15.0 or later. Hit the sidebar icon near the top-left corner to open the Safari sidebar. From the Safari sidebar on the lefthand side, choose the option labeled Private. Doing so creates a new tab in a group dubbed "Private". You can open multiple private tabs in this tab group.

  11. How to Use Safari Private Browsing on iPhone or iPad

    Safari Private Browsing on iPhone or iPad. To enter private browsing mode, tap the 'tabs' button in the top right-hand corner. Then tap the button labeled Private. That then gets highlighted ...

  12. How to Go Incognito in Safari on iPhone, iPad & Mac

    1. Open Safari and tap the Tabs icon at the bottom right. 2. Tap [Numbers] Tabs to see the Tab Groups. Then, tap the Private option. 3. Tap Done or the "+" button to open a new private tab in Safari. 4. There's also a faster way to use incognito mode on iPhone.

  13. Open a New Private Tab in iOS 15's Updated Safari Design

    On iOS 14 and under, you would tap the tabs switcher button, hit "Private," then tap the plus (+) sign to open a new tab in Private Browsing Mode. Now, when you tap on the tab switcher icon in iOS 15, no such option appears. The option does still exist, just in a new location. Don't Miss: 15 New iOS 15.1 Features You Need to Know About for ...

  14. How to Turn on Private Browsing on Your iPad

    How to Use Private Browsing Mode on iPad. Safari has a dedicated area just for private tabs that you can access by choosing Private. Tap the Private button to put Safari in incognito mode. Tap the Tabs button. Select Private . Tap the Plus sign. Use Safari as you normally would. It won't remember the pages you visit.

  15. Your Guide to Private Browsing in Safari

    The steps to enter Private Browsing mode are nearly identical on an iPhone and iPad. The only difference is that the tab icon is at the bottom of the screen on iOS and the top on iPadOS. Long-press the tab icon (two overlapping pages) on the bottom-right (iPhone) or top-right (iPad) of your screen. Tap the New Private Tab menu item.

  16. How to Turn Off Private Browsing Mode on iPad

    On your iPad, tap Safari . Tap the tabs button in the top right hand corner of the screen. If you're using your iPad in landscape mode, you may not need to complete this step as the tabs menu can sometimes already be open. Tap Private . Tap Tabs at the top of the Tabs Group list to switch back to non-private browsing.

  17. Safari's Private Browsing Mode Just Made Your Private Tabs Way More

    Once you close a Private Browsing tab, Safari forgets the pages you visited, your search history, your AutoFill information, and any new cookies or website data from the session. But incognito browsing in Safari has even more protection available with the iOS 17 , iPadOS 17 , and macOS 14 Sonoma software updates.

  18. How to Try the New Safari Tab Bar on iPad

    Here's how. First, open Settings by tapping the grey gear icon. In Settings, tap "Safari" in the sidebar. In Safari settings, navigate to the "Tabs" section, then select "Compact Tab Bar" until it has a check mark below it. Next, launch Safari and open several websites at once. Previously, with "Separate Tab Bar" selected, you'd see a dedicated ...

  19. How to open Safari links in new tabs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

    Check out: 4 quick ways to open Safari Private Tab on iPhone. On Mac. You have different options in Safari on Mac than you do on iOS. You can control links by opening them in new tabs instead of new windows automatically and use a shortcut to immediately open links in new tabs. Open Safari and click Safari > Preferences from the menu bar.

  20. iOS 17 Safari makes private browsing more secure

    The private browsing feature in iOS 17 Safari gets an extra layer of privacy, as the your private browsing tabs can now lock when you're not using the feature. But to make sure prying passersby ...

  21. How to Always Open Your Browser in Incognito Mode

    Over on macOS, in Safari you can open the Safari menu, then click Settings and open the General tab to find the relevant option: Make sure the Safari opens with drop-down menu is set to A new ...

  22. How to view and clear your web browsing history in Safari on iPhone or iPad

    Open Safari on your iPhone and tap the 'Bookmarks' button at the bottom (beside the tab switcher button). On iPad, tap the 'Show Sidebar' button at the top left corner. 2.

  23. The Little Known Safari Feature Even Google Chrome Can't Do ...

    To add an open Safari web page to a new tab group using your iPhone: Launch the Safari app. Tap the Tabs view switcher. It's the two-square icon in the bottom navigation bar.

  24. iPad Pro Split second of blurry text when tab switching in safari

    If I load two or more safari tabs and switch between then, there is about quarter second when the text in the new tab is blurry. It's not a full reload, it's like a slow rerender. InterestingLy I don't see it in chrome. It shouldn't be memory pressure with only two tabs and nothing else happening.