Safari User Guide
- Change your home page
- Import bookmarks, history and passwords
- Make Safari your default web browser
- Go to websites
- Find what you’re looking for
- Bookmark web pages that you want to revisit
- See your favourite websites
- Use tabs for web pages
- Pin frequently visited websites
- Play web videos
- Mute audio in tabs
- Pay with Apple Pay
- Autofill credit card info
- Autofill contact info
- Keep a Reading List
- Hide ads when reading articles
- Translate a web page
- Download items from the web
- Share or post web pages
- Add passes to Wallet
- Save part or all of a web page
- Print or create a PDF of a web page
- Customise a start page
- Customise the Safari window
- Customise settings per website
- Zoom in on web pages
- Get extensions
- Manage cookies and website data
- Block pop-ups
- Clear your browsing history
- Browse privately
- Autofill username and password info
- Prevent cross-site tracking
- View a Privacy Report
- Change Safari preferences
- Keyboard and other shortcuts
- Troubleshooting
If you can’t open a website in Safari on Mac
If you can’t open a website, try these suggestions.
Open Safari for me
It may suggest ways to solve the problem or include information you need to solve it.
Make sure you’re using the correct address for the web page.
If you copied and pasted the address, make sure it doesn’t have extra characters or missing characters at the beginning or end.
If the website requires a VPN connection, make sure it’s functioning properly.
See Connect your Mac to a VPN .
Try entering /index.html or /index.htm at the end of the address.
Choose View > Reload Page.
If the page still won’t open, quit Safari, reopen it, then try again.
Try again at a different time.
The website server may be busy, or the website may be unavailable temporarily.
Contact your network administrator for help.
If you connect to the internet using a corporate or enterprise network, the network may have a firewall that prevents you from opening the web page.
If your computer or network is protected by a firewall, you may need to specify proxy servers to access some internet sites.
See Set up a proxy server using Safari .
Contact the website’s owner to find out if the web server has a problem or if the website is incompatible with Safari.
For example, Safari can’t open a website that uses a protocol other than http or https.
Use the latest version of Safari. See Keep your Mac up to date .
The page might be blocked by a Content Blocker you have installed.
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