How to Clean Up the Safari Start Page on iPhone

By default, the Safari start page on iPhone displays a lot of information such as favorite websites, Reading list on Safari,. However, displaying too much unnecessary content on the Safari start page can confuse users. Below are instructions to tidy up the Safari start page on iPhone.

How to tidy up Safari start page on iPhone

Step 1:

At the Safari interface, open the home page and scroll down to click the Edit button to do so. Then you will see the content items displayed on the Safari iPhone home page.

The displayed items include:

1. Favorites: Enabling this option will enable displaying items from your favorites list (such as bookmarks).
2. Frequently Visited: This option displays a list of websites you visit frequently.
3. Shared With You: This option displays a list of items shared with you from others through the Messages app.
4. Privacy Report: This section shows a report of how many trackers Safari has recently blocked.
5. Siri Suggestions: This feature displays suggestions from Siri related to what's in your history and bookmarks.
6. Reading List: This section displays items from your Reading List.
7. iCloud Tabs: This option shows Safari tabs synced on iCloud from your other devices.

Step 2:

In this options interface, users can change the display order of content items in the Safari first page interface.

Step 3:

To tidy up the Safari start page on iPhone, you need to turn off the button that displays that content .

The result is a streamlined Safari start page on iPhone as shown below.

Marvin Fry

Update 03 July 2025