Safari

How to prevent Safari on your Mac from automatically opening downloaded files

How to prevent Safari on your Mac from automatically opening downloaded files

Did you know that by default, Safari on your Mac will open, on your behalf, movies, images, PDF and text documents, and any kind of archives, after downloading them?

At first glance, it looks like a super convenient thing to do.

No need to manually open those downloaded files.

Except for the fact that opening an infected file is one of the many potential hacking vectors on a Mac.

How to use iCloud Keychain on iPhone, iPad & Mac

How to use iCloud Keychain on iPhone, iPad & Mac

In this post, I’ll show you how to use iCloud Keychain on your Apple devices.

As explained in my previous post, iCloud Keychain is a good place to start if:

  • you exclusively use Safari for web browsing

  • your online footprint is limited to a few accounts

  • you only need to manage login and credit card information

How to navigate quicker in Safari on your iPhone

How to navigate quicker in Safari on your iPhone

In this post, I will show you how to navigate quicker through the page history in Safari (approx. 1 minute reading time).

When you want to go through the history of a particular tab in Safari, you usually click or tap multiple times on the icons which looks like "<" and ">" (top left on a Mac and iPad or bottom left on iPhone) until you reach the page that you're looking for.

But did you know that you can easily have access to the complete navigation history for this page?

How to reduce distractions in Safari on your iPhone

How to reduce distractions in Safari on your iPhone

In this post, I will show you how to temporarily hide distractions and undesired content when reading articles with Safari.

Let's take the website guardian.co.uk as example; alongside each article, you will often see advertisements, share icons (Facebook,Twitter, etc.), related articles and whatnot.

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