You can now easily translate websites displayed in a foreign language. The new feature supports English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Russian, and Brazilian Portuguese. Browse to a site that appears in one of those languages and you will see a translate icon briefly appear near the address bar. You can also tap the aA icon at any time and select “Translate to [your native language].”

Every page on the site will then be rendered in your language of choice. To revert the site back to the original language, tap the aA icon again on mobile or the translate icon on Mac, then select View Original.

Cross-site trackers monitor your web-based activities as you surf from one site to another, an activity that can certainly raise privacy concerns. Safari blocks such trackers from profiling you by default, and now allows you to see which sites and trackers are blocked. You can check your privacy report if you tap the aA icon on mobile and select Privacy Report, or click the shield icon in Safari on your Mac and select the info icon.

Click the Show More link to learn more about the cross-site tracking and how Apple blocks them. The window reveals how many trackers were prevented from profiling you and how many sites contacted such trackers. Further down, you can see the websites that contacted trackers and see which trackers were blocked.

On your iPhone or iPad, you can now see any passwords saved in iCloud Keychain that have been leaked in a data breach, are being reused for multiple login credentials, or are considered weak. To check this, go to Settings > Passwords > Security Recommendations. You can then tap a specific entry to delete or change the password.

Many streaming video apps already let you watch their videos in a smaller window while you take care of other tasks, but now Safari fully supports this option. If you’re watching a video on YouTube or Vimeo, you can start playing a video in full screen, then select the Picture-in-Picture icon in the upper-left corner. The video shrinks to a smaller window that you can move to any corner of the screen. To see the video in full screen again, tap the small window and select the Picture-in-Picture icon.

Safari debuted a new Start page with the release of iOS/iPadOS 13. Open a new tab to see your bookmarks, frequently visited sites, and Siri suggested sites. Tap the Show More or Show Less link in the upper right to see more or fewer icons.

The pages you open in Safari have a way of growing and growing until the browser gets cluttered with dozens of open tabs. With iOS/iPadOS 13 or higher, you can set a certain time to automatically close all open tabs. Go to Settings > Safari > Close Tabs to set tabs to close manually or automatically close after one day, one week, or one month.

If you don’t want Safari to keep track of the sites you visit, your search history, or the AutoFill information you enter, Private Browsing mode will keep this information hidden (although you won’t be completely anonymous). Tap the tabs icon in the bottom-right corner of Safari, tap Private, then hit the + icon to open a new page. You can exit Private mode by opening the tabs screen, selecting Private, then tapping Done.

Instead of saving every individual open tab as a bookmark, you can save them all at once if you’re running iOS/iPadOS 13. To do this, press down on the Bookmark icon at the top or bottom of your screen. From the menu, tap “Add Bookmarks for [x] Tabs,” and your tabbed pages are all saved.

You can save a webpage for offline reading. At the page you want to save, tap the Share icon, then tap Add to Reading List. To access any pages in your reading list online or offline, tap the Bookmarks icon and tap the Eyeglasses icon. You can then tap the page you want to read. 

By default, the page disappears from the reading list after you've read it. To see all pages, including ones you've already read, tap Show All at the bottom of the menu; tap Show Unread to go back to a list of unread items.

If you’re running iOS/iPadOS 13 or higher, you’ll find certain settings tucked away under the aA icon next to the address bar. A pop-up menu offers commands to change the zoom level, show the current page in Reader View, hide the toolbar, request the desktop or mobile version of the site, view the Privacy Report, and access even more website settings.

Reader View, as its name indicates, makes a web page easier to read. To do this in iOS/iPadOS 13 or higher, tap the aA icon on the address bar and select Show Reader View, or just hold down the aA icon until the page appears in Reader View. Tap the icon again to change font or exit to normal view.

You can do more in Safari with the iPad’s multitasking features introduced in iPadOS 13.1. View two web at once by opening two pages, then dragging one to the right side of the screen until it opens in Slide Over view. You can then reposition the second window so both pages are in Split View with a vertical bar that you can drag left or right to change the width of each window.

By tapping the Share icon, you can send a link for the current web page to another app. You can opt to send a link via a text message, email, reminder, Facebook, or Twitter. From here, you can also add the page to your home screen or print it.

There’s another way to share web pages if you’re running  iOS/iPadOS 13 or higher. After you tap the Share icon, tap Options. You can now opt to share the page as a web page, PDF, or archive.

Starting with iOS/iPadOS 13, Safari has a Download Manager so you can more easily download files from a website. You can download a file by pressing down on the link and tapping Download Linked File from the pop-up menu. 

View all your downloaded files by tapping the down arrow button in the upper-right corner, then tap a specific file to view it. You can also access downloaded files from the Files app by selecting the location for your iPhone or iPad and then navigating to the Downloads folder.

By default, Safari’s Download Manager saves files to the Downloads folder on iCloud, but you can change the location. Open Settings > Safari > Downloads and send them to your iPhone, iPad, or another location. Here, you can also opt to remove downloaded items after one day, after a successful download, or manually.

In the past, the screenshot feature on your mobile device would snap only the visible portion of a web page, cutting off the rest of it. With iOS/iPadOS 13 or higher, you can now capture the entire page. To do this, take a screenshot like normal, then tap the preview thumbnail of the shot. At the preview screen, tap the button that says Full Page and an image of the entire web page, even if it wasn't visible in the initial shot, is saved.

If you want to change some of Safari’s core settings, open Settings > Safari > Siri & Search on mobile or go to Safari > Preferences on a Mac. Here you can select where information from Safari will appear when you ask Siri a question, change your default search engine, and choose what information is automatically filled in at websites. Safari’s AutoFill feature allows you to choose your contact info to be filled but not names and passwords or credit card details.

You can also tell Safari to keep track of frequently visited sites, allow your Favorites to be accessed when you run a search or create a new tab, open new tabs in the background, show the Favorites bar, show the tab bar, and block pop-ups.

Scroll down to the section on Privacy & Security (separate tabs under Preferences on Mac). You should enable all the settings here if they are not already selected. Here is where the browser’s collected cookies can be deleted and any future data collection can be blocked. To learn more about these settings, tap the link for "About Safari & Privacy."

If you’re not crazy about Safari and would rather use Chrome, Firefox, or another browser as the default, you can now do so when you update to iOS/iPadOS 14. Go to Settings, then tap the browser app you want to use as the default. Tap the setting for Default Browser App and change it to your preferred browser. Now when you click on a web link, it will open in your new default browser, instead of Safari.