{"id":164635,"date":"2021-03-30T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=164635"},"modified":"2025-07-01T21:10:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:10:16","slug":"how-to-change-your-safari-homepage-on-mac-in-4-easy-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-change-your-safari-homepage-on-mac-in-4-easy-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change Your Safari Homepage on Mac in 4 Easy Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/safari.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Safari<\/a> is the default browser used with Apple products. This includes <a href=\"https:\/\/safari.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mac<\/a>, iPad, and iPhone. The Safari browser is one of the fastest, safest, and most user-friendly browsers available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Safari browser developers are continually making new updates and functions for the browser to keep it current and popular. One of the more recent updates included an option to change your Safari browser\u2019s background to an image or photo of your choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s look at how you can set up a different homepage for your Safari browser on Mac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How to Change Your Safari Homepage on Mac<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"howto_container schema-howto-acf-block\"><ol><li><div class=\"howto_item\"><h2>Launch Safari Browser<\/h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/image\/upload\/v1616577397\/Steps_1_qaecln.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"900\"><p>Open your Safari browser by clicking its icon in the dock.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><li><div class=\"howto_item\"><h2>Navigate to Webpage<\/h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/image\/upload\/v1616577376\/Steps_2_sl0gpy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"357\"><p>Go to the webpage that you want to set as your homepage. This can be any website that you want. For this example, we will set our homepage to Google.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><li><div class=\"howto_item\"><h2> Select \u2018Preferences\u2019<\/h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/image\/upload\/v1616577374\/unnamed_19_rw7lcc.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"255\"><p>Navigate to the Safari menu found at the top of your screen, and click on \u2018Preferences\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><li><div class=\"howto_item\"><h2>Select \u2018Set to Current Page\u2019<\/h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/image\/upload\/v1616577375\/unnamed_20_v58acv.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"337\"><p>In the \u2018Preferences\u2019 section, go to the \u2018General\u2019 tab and click on the \u2018Set to Current Page\u2019 button. This will automatically set your homepage to the page you have opened in step 2. In our case, that would be Google.<\/p>\n<p>These steps are very similar to the steps above to set a homepage on your iPhone or iPad. The only difference is that instead of choosing the Safari Menu, you select the Sharing icon, which is represented by a square with an arrow pointing up. In this menu, you\u2019ll get the option to set the current webpage as your homepage.<\/p>\n<p>If you can\u2019t change your Safari homepage, make sure that your Safari is updated to the most recent version.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/li><\/ol><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t.howto_container {\n\t  margin: 0 auto;\n\t}\n\t.howto_container img {\n\t\theight: 100%;\n\t\tmargin-bottom: 30px;\n\t}\n\t\n\t\t  .howto_container h2 {\n\t\t\t  clear: none !important;\n\t\t  }\n\t\t  .howto_container ol {\n\t\t\t  list-style: none !important;\n\t\t  }\t\n\t.howto_container ol li::before {\n\t\tcolor: #ffffff !important;\n\t\tbackground:#0073aa !important;\n\t}\n<\/style>\n\n\t\t\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Set Your New Homepage<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you can see from the above steps, it is easy to set any webpage of your choice as your homepage. This can make your browser much more efficient to use and can get you going much quicker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are looking for a different browser to try, you can look at <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Chrome<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mozilla-firefox.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Firefox<\/a> as alternatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safari is the default browser used with Apple products. This includes Mac, iPad, and iPhone. The Safari browser is one of the fastest, safest, and most user-friendly browsers available. The Safari browser developers are continually making new updates and functions for the browser to keep it current and popular. One of the more recent updates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-change-your-safari-homepage-on-mac-in-4-easy-steps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Change Your Safari Homepage on Mac in 4 Easy Steps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9205,"featured_media":181923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2431],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-164635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionsafari"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324957,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164635\/revisions\/324957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164635"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=164635"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=164635"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=164635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}