Customizable Sections on the Safari Start Page

This article provides a complete breakdown of the customizable sections available on the Safari web browser's Start Page. By toggling these specific features on or off, users can tailor their new tab experience to maximize productivity, monitor their online privacy, or create a minimalist browsing environment across their Apple devices.

To access these toggles, open a new tab in Safari and click or tap the customization button (represented by slider bars or an "Edit" button) at the bottom of the page. Here are the sections you can toggle on or off:

Use Start Page on All Devices Located at the top of the customization menu, this toggle syncs your Start Page preferences across all your Apple devices that are signed into the same iCloud account.

Tab Group Favorites If you use Safari's Tab Groups feature, enabling this section displays bookmarks that you have designated specifically for the currently active Tab Group.

Favorites This section displays a grid of your primary bookmarked websites for instant, one-click access. You can also choose which specific bookmark folder is displayed here.

Frequently Visited When toggled on, Safari automatically curates and displays thumbnails of the websites you visit the most.

Shared with You This section pulls web links that friends, family, or colleagues have sent to you through the Apple Messages app and displays them directly on your Start Page, showing who sent the link.

Privacy Report Enabling this section adds a summary banner that shows how many cross-site trackers Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention has blocked from profiling you over the last seven days.

Siri Suggestions This feature uses on-device intelligence to suggest websites you might want to visit based on your browsing patterns, search history, and links found in other apps like Mail or Calendar.

Reading List Toggling this on displays the articles and webpages you have saved to your Safari Reading List for offline or future reading.

Recently Closed Tabs Available in newer versions of Safari, this section shows a quick-access list of tabs you have recently closed, allowing you to easily reopen them if you closed a page by mistake.

iCloud Tabs This section displays a list of open tabs from your other Apple devices (such as your iPhone, iPad, or another Mac) that are signed into the same iCloud account. You can filter this list by specific devices.

Background Image Turning this toggle on allows you to select a custom photo from your library or choose from Apple's built-in wallpapers to serve as the backdrop for your Start Page. Toggling it off reverts the background to a standard, solid system color.