Save web pages on smartphones in 4 simple ways

Sometimes while surfing the web with a smartphone, you come across great content and want to save it in your device for later viewing. In addition to bookmarking the same website as on a computer, you can also apply the following methods to customize your purpose.

Sometimes while surfing the web with a smartphone, you "encounter" such good content and want to save it in your device for later viewing. In addition to bookmarking the same website as on a computer, you can also apply the following methods to customize your purpose.

1- Use Reading List feature on iOS

Reading List feature integrated in the Safari browser of iOS operating system allows to save web pages to read later. It works just like the services of Pocket, Instapaper and some other applications. Reading List will download an offline copy of the website so you can view it later without connecting to the Internet.

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To add a site to the Reading List list, click the Action button ( the rectangular icon with an upward arrow ) is on Safari's toolbar and select Add to Reading List . To open the Reading List list, click the Bookmarks button ( the open book icon ) and select the Reading List tab ( glasses icon ). If you want to delete a site from the Reading List list, simply click on the page and flick to the left to make the Delete button appear to delete.

2- Save the website as a PDF file (for Android and iOS)

Another solution is that you can print web page content you want to save as a PDF file on iOS or Android device.

For Android devices, first open the website you want to save in the Chrome browser and then click the three-dot menu button in the right corner of the screen, then press the Print button. After the process of creating a preview of the website is completed, you can save it by clicking the Save to button in the menu above. Next select Save to Google Drive to download the newly created PDF file to your Google Drive account. In addition, you can also click Save as PDF if you want to save the PDF file to the local memory of the Android device.

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For iOS devices, because there is no Save as PDF option in the Print menu, you can choose the Save PDF feature instead. First, open a web page in the Safari browser, click the Action button and then click the Save PDF to iBooks option in the first row. If you're using Dropbox on an iOS device, you'll see the Save to Dropbox option in the second row when clicking the Action button in the Safari browser. From there, you can choose the Save button to save the website as a PDF file directly to your Dropbox account.

3- Submit website content by email (only for iOS)

If you want to save and share a website for your friends, instead of just sending the URL of that site, you can save the entire content and email them. To do this, open Safari and open any post in the web page you want to save. Then, the web address bar will display Reader View Available, indicating that this article can be viewed in Reader View mode. Next, click the Reader View button ( the four-dash icon is located on the left of the URL address bar at the top of the screen ).

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Then, click the Action button and select Mail . Immediately, Safari browser will paste the entire web content as text along with the image in the article into the email editor as well as the link of the post above. All you need to do now is to enter the email address of the person you want to send to To then click the Send button.

4- Using external applications (for Android and iOS)

Sometimes, you just want to save the text of a web page, no ads or other confusing picture frames. In this case, it is better to use an offline reading tool such as Instapaper , Pocket or Readability . These applications are currently available for both Android and iOS devices.

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For example, to implement with Pocket application on iOS, you just need to open any post in the website and then click on the Action button. At this point, you will see the Pocket icon in the first row and click on it to save the content. Immediately, all content will be saved to the Pocket app and you can open it at any time, even if that page link is no longer online.