In this lesson, we will learn about the Safari interface and how to navigate the different built-in features. Safari is the web browser app that comes with MacOS. You can certainly download and use other browser apps on your Mac machine, like Google Chrome or Firefox, but Safari is the native Apple web browser app, and it comes pre-installed on all Mac machines. I already have Safari in my dock, so I click on it to open it. And if Safari is not in your doc, then you can also open Safari by going to Finder, then Applications, then scroll to where Safari is, and double click on it. And another way to open Safari is to click on spotlight then type Safari, and hit enter. All right, so this is Safari, and this is the interface. At the very top left, we have the Safari menu bar with the typical menu options. Then just below we have the toolbar, which has some items worth exploring. At the far left, we have the typical close, minimize, and maximize circles. Next, we have the sidebar icon, which gives us access to our current tabs as well as bookmarks and reading list. I'll click on it again to hide it for now. Next, we have the back and forward arrows to help us navigate between web pages. Right now they are grayed out because I didn't navigate to another page since opening this homepage. And if I go to another webpage, I now see that the back button is in bold, meaning that I can go back to the previous page. And now the forward icon is bold because I can go forward to the next page I was at a moment ago. Next, we have the privacy icon. When I click on it, it displays some privacy information. I'll also click the eye icon for more tracking information. Next, we come to the address bar, which also doubles as a search engine field. This is called the Smart Search field. So I can type amazon.com to go to Amazon's website or I can type something to search for like MacOS Monterey and I get search results from Google. The choice of search engine to use is customizable. Now, inside the address bar, to the left, is an icon that allows us to add the current page to our reading list. And to view our reading list, I can go to the view menu, then choose show reading list sidebar. And here is the page we just added a moment ago. A reading list is a list of items that you want to read, so it can keep adding webpages to this list here. Once you read the page, it disappears from this list. And to manage these items, I can swipe to the left, and I can either remove it or download it for offline reading. Offline reading is helpful when I'm on a plane with no internet connection. I can open this downloaded page and read it at my own time. So that was left swiping on the reading list item. And if I swipe this item to the right, I can mark it as red. And if I scroll up a bit, I now see a search bar, as well as two tabs: one for all and one for unread, which would show which reading list items have not been read yet. And to close this view, I go to the view menu again, and this time I choose hide reading list sidebar. Okay, back to the toolbar. At the far right of the address bar, we have the refresh icon. When I click it, the page is reloaded once again. At times this is necessary when you want to view updated information on our page. Then to the far right, we have the share icon, the plus icon, and the tab overview icon. The share icon allows us to share the current webpage either by adding it to our bookmarks and reading list, or we can also create a quick note with it or send the page's link via email and messages among other options. So, if I like this page and I want to bookmark it for later access, I'll click on add bookmark. This dialogue box appears, and now I need to decide where in my bookmark structure do I want to add it. For simplicity, I'll just add it to my favorites, which is a special folder in my bookmark structure. Then I need to give it a name and also an optional description. So I'll just change the name to make it shorter, and then click on add. To fetch this bookmark or any bookmark really, I go to the bookmarks menu and all the way at the bottom I see favorites, and I see the bookmark I just added at the very bottom since it's the last one I just added. Back to the toolbar again, at the top right, after the share icon, we have the plus icon. When I click it, it adds a new tab. So now, I have two tabs open in Safari and I can toggle between them. I can also move the tabs around by dragging the right tab to be on the left side. And to close the tab, I simply click on the X on the left side of the tab. Now, let me open a new tab, and I wanted to show you this little settings icon in the bottom right corner of Safari. This is a mini settings icon and it allows us to display a few things in our Safari homepage. For example, I can show my favorites, my frequently visited websites. I can also see what other people have shared with me, and I can display the privacy report, as well as Siri suggestions, and my reading list. And the last option is that I can set and change the Safari background image. I can also add my own custom background image by clicking on the plus sign, or I can uncheck the background image box, and now the Safari homepage is just a plain white background. Another feature in Safari that is highly customizable is the Safari toolbar. I'll right click on the toolbar and choose customize toolbar. The top half of the window includes many single icons that we can add to our toolbar. For example, I can drag the home icon, I can add the history icon, and I can also add the bookmark icon. And let me also add the print icon, the start page icon, and the zoom icon, and I'll click on done for now. My toolbar now includes many icons that can help me be more productive. Now, let's assume you noticed that some of the icons are no longer needed, and you wish to remove them, so you can declutter your toolbar. Well, there are a couple of ways to remove these icons. The quick way is to press and hold the command key, then drag the icon out of the toolbar. So, I'm now holding the command key on my keyboard, and I'll drag this icon out of the toolbar, then I'll do the same for this icon. And now let me do the same for home icon. Doesn't seem to work. How about the start page icon? It also does not seem to work. So, some icons cannot be removed using this quick shortcut. But if we open the customize window again, notice how the icons in the toolbar are now jiggling from side to side. From here, I can just drag them out of the toolbar, and this time, without holding the command key. All right, so this is our current toolbar now, but you no longer need any of these icons because they're just cluttering your toolbar, and you wanna revert back to the old toolbar. Well, we now can just drag this default pre-built standard toolbar on top of our cluttered toolbar, and it will replace whatever is in my current toolbar. So, I'll drag it to the toolbar area, and now we are back to the basic standard toolbar. So, in this lesson, we were introduced to Safari and the basic interface items and how to navigate in Safari. Thank you for watching.
