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this year iOS 18 is bringing five
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awesome new features to Safari let's
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In the biggest change is a new page menu
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that you can find by tapping this button
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on the left of the address bar it's much
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more simple and Visually laid out on the
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top you have options for high
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distracting items if a popup is
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preventing you from seeing the content
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of the page more on that later below you
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have options for turn off content
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blockers and reduce privacy protections
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that'll load the page with those
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features disabled in case they're
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interfering with how the page is
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supposed to work and if you have any
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Safari extensions installed you'll see
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those in the middle along the bottom
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from left to right find on page will let
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you search for text specifically on the
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page text size will make the entire
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content of the page bigger or smaller
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and the more button is an additional
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junk drawer of features you can request
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the desktop version of the site print it
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customize website specific settings for
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permissions add it to your favorites or
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bookmarks or reading list a lot of these
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features are also in the share sheet as
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well but here in the page menu you can
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customize the order and add your
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favorites for quicker access number two
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the modern web is sadly full of
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irritating banners and popups begging
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you to subscribe to newsletters autop
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playing videos you don't want to watch
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if you install an ad blocker to restore
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some degree of Sanity like my personal
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favorites vinegar and adguard suddenly
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start getting pop-ups begging you to
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turn off your ad blocker well the new
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hide distracting items feature is here
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to the rescue find it in the page menu
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all you have to do is tap on the thing
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you don't like and tap hide and it'll
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Fade Away into dust like Thanos himself
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has snapped away half of the modern web
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but only the irritating half tap the
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done button and you can read your web
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page in distraction free Bliss number
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three a occasionally the page menu will
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have a sparkle icon on it despite what
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you might think that doesn't indicate
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that the page menu is lemony fresh and
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clean it instead tells you that
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information highlights are available for
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the page you're on if you're on a
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website for a restaurant or business or
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a hotel you'll have a widget on the top
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that shows you their operating hours
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their cost and you can tap on it to get
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instant directions in Apple Maps if
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you're on a page that talks about a
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famous historical figure you'll see a
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quick biography and you can tap to open
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Wikipedia or if you're reading an
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article about a new musical artist or
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album or song you'll have an embedded
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widget that you can open in apple music
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and listen right away number four if
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you're reading an article you can tap
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and hold on the page menu to jump
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directly into reader mode where you'll
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discover two great new features if it's
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a big long article and you don't have
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time to read the whole thing you can tap
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on the summary it'll summarize the main
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points or the thesis of of the article
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for you this particular summary feature
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isn't powered by Apple intelligence so
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you can get it on all devices running
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iow 18 second if the article is properly
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formatted with subheadings and sections
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you'll find an automatically generated
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table of contents tap to expand the list
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and tap to jump directly to the section
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you want to read both of these features
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are great timesavers finally number five
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another great feature of iOS 18 is the
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ability to lock any app behind face ID
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or on an older device Touch ID in the
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case of safari if someone steals your
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phone this can prevent them from getting
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into your browser tabs or your browser
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history it's really easy just tap and
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hold on any icon on your home screen and
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tap require face ID you'll get a popup
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explaining how it works it'll scan your
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face and if that's successful the app
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will be locked anytime you tap on the
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icon on your home screen or switch to it
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from the app switcher it'll first have
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to scan your face and if that's
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unsuccessful you can still enter in your
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passcode as well if you ever want to
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turn this off it's just as easy from the
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home screen tap and hold on the icon and
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tap don't require face ID it'll do one
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last scan and then it'll be free if you
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want to learn more about this feature
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including the ability to hide an app
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from your phone I wrote a full article
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about it that you can find here remember
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to like And subscribe so you see more
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great iOS 18 features and tips I'm D
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Griffin Jones with Cult of Mac
