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Together with iOS 13, users also received a significant update to Safari, which offers several new features. If you want to find out more about the most interesting functions and learn how to use Safari in iOS 13 (or in iPadOS 13) to its full potential, then we have prepared for you a summary of all the new options that you can use within the native browser on iPhone and iPad.

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Change font size anywhere

In the older version of Safari that was included with iOS 12, you could only change the font size where the reader worked. This is already a thing of the past with iOS 13, because now you can change the font size anywhere. Just go to specific web page, and then click the icon in the upper left corner of the screen Ah. You can use it here afterwards lowercase letter A a capital letter A you can choose the percentage by which the font size will decrease or increase.

Hide the toolbar

You've probably found yourself in a situation where you needed to hide the toolbar in Safari that activated every time you scrolled up on a web page. However, you can now get rid of this inconvenience quite quickly. Just click on the icon in the top left corner of Safari Ah, and then click on the second option from the top named Hide toolbar. To reactivate the toolbar, click on the top bar named URL in Safari.

Site-specific settings

Want to see if a specific website has access to your camera, microphone, or location? Or do you want to set a specific page to automatically start in the desktop version or in reader mode? If you answered yes to at least one of those questions, proceed as follows. On the web page you want to manage, click the icon in the upper left corner Ah, and then select an option Settings for the web server. Here you can set all options selected above.

Automatic closing of panels

Certainly you know. If you've been using Safari for a long time, the open panels will accumulate and accumulate over time. So you can have several dozen of them open in a few days. Who wants to manually close them, right? Fortunately, Apple added a new option in iOS 13 to allow panels in Safari to close automatically. To set up this feature, go to the native app Settings, where to get off below to option safari, which you click. Now get off again below, where the option is located Close panels, which you click on. Here you can already choose whether you want panels automatically close after a day, week or month.

Change download location

Together with iOS 13 and iPadOS 13, we finally have the possibility to download files from the Internet on the iPhone and iPad. By default, these files are selected to be stored on iCloud Drive in the Downloads folder. If you want to choose the storage location yourself, for example to another folder on iCloud Drive, or directly to your device, proceed as follows. Open the native app Settings, where to get off below and click the option Safari. Then get off here again below and click the option Downloading. Here you can easily set where the downloaded files should be downloaded.

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