Due to the lightning-fast Javascript engine, Safari is the world’s fastest browser. Apple designed Safari specifically to run on Apple devices. And now, with the introduction of iOS 17, Apple has induced many interesting enhancements and functionality in Safari, giving prominence to privacy, highly integrated Siri, optimizing search, and more. These advanced features work on many aspects, making our favourite browser more secure and versatile enough to navigate the web easily.
New Features Of Safari: iOS 17
Apple introduced a total of six new advancements in the Safari browser. Safari browser is now even safer and more advanced. These new functionality include a separate navigation feature, secured private browsing, the search engine for private browsing, various improvements in the search, track removal using URLs, and Siri dictates the content. Let’s have a look at each feature of Safari in detail.
- Separate Profiles for navigation:
The major enhancement to Safari in iOS 17 is the Profile feature. This feature lets users separate their searching according to their uses; in other words, now users can have their work profile and personal profile separate along with separate search and navigation for each domain. Also, each profile will have its cookies, extensions, history, and data.
Apart from this, it allows users to customize, turn the cookies on and off, and various pop-ups for each profile separately, take the decision on which extension to be used on which profile and clear the history and website data of one profile while leaving the others undisturbed.
If you want to access the profiles on Safari, head to the steps given below:
- Go to the Settings app on your iPhone.
- Open Safari.
- Click on New Profile.
- Now select a name, an icon, and a colour, and design the folder according to your choice, along with the plugins which you want to activate.
- Select OK.
You can switch profiles by tapping the two overlapping squares button and then tapping the centre button to access the profile.
- Private browsing is even safer now:
Apple has introduced an advanced privacy feature to Safari. Giving users’ privacy priority, now private browsing will need to access the secondary authentication, which means that if a person has unlocked their iPhone, then they can’t use the Safari tabs without the additional authentications such as Face id, PIN or iPhone passcode.
- Choose a separate search engine:
Due to the new advancements in iOS 17, users can now choose a separate search engine for their work and personal profile. Various search engine options are there, which include Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuck Go and Ecosia. You can easily choose your private search engine by heading to Settings >> Safari >> Private search engine.
- More improved search:
Now Safari has a faster and more efficient search system. The search response has been enhanced so that it can provide the results more fastly. Additionally, in the main website suggestions, the favicons have been added, and the results which come from the bookmarks, tabs and the search history are highlighted for further indication.
- No tracking using URLs:
With iOS 17, a feature introduced in Safari will remove all the tracking information some websites added at the URL’s end. This is the essential feature that will prevent various websites from tracking our surfing activity through the URLs. However, this feature comes on by default in the private browsing mode. It can also be enabled for all your surfing activities in Settings >> Safari >> Advanced >> Tracking and Fingerprinting protection by selecting All Browsing.
- Siri dictates the content:
With this new advancement, Siri can now read any content aloud when the reader mode is available. This is an essential feature that is helpful when a person is busy and can’t read the content; in that case, Siri will dictate the content so that you can listen to it while you are engaged in doing any work.
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