In this lesson, we will learn about the Safari interface and how to navigate the different built-in features. Safari is the web browser app that comes with macOS. I already have Safari in my dock, so I'll click on it to open it. If Safari is not in your dock, then you can also open Safari by going to Finder, then Applications, then scroll to where Safari is, and double click on it. And another way to open Safari is to click on Spotlight, then type "Safari", and hit enter. All right, so this is Safari and this is the interface. At the very top left, we have the Safari menu bar with the typical menu options. Then, just below that, we have the toolbar which has some items worth exploring. At the far left, we have the typical close, minimize, and maximize circles. Next, we have the sidebar icon which gives us access to our current bookmarks and reading list. I'll click it again to hide it for now. Next, we have the back and forward arrows to help us navigate between webpages. Right now, they are grayed out because I didn't navigate to another webpage since opening this homepage. And if I go to another webpage, I now see that the back button is in bold, meaning that I can go back to the previous page. And now, the forward icon is bold because I can go forward to the next page I was at a moment ago. Next, we have the privacy icon, and when I click on it, it displays some privacy information. I'll also click the "i" icon for more tracking information. Next, we come to the address bar, which also doubles as a search engine field. This is also called the Smart Search field. So, I can type knowledgecity.com, to go to Knowledge City's website, or I can just type something to search for like macOS Big Sur, and I get search results from Google. The choice of which search engine to use is customizable. Now, inside the address bar to the left, is an icon that allows us to add the current page to our reading list. The icon is only visible when I hover my mouse over it in the Smart Search field. And now you can see that the Smart Search field is displaying the message, "Add page to Reading List". So I'll click on this little icon, and to view our reading list, I can go to the view menu, then choose Show Reading List sidebar. And here is the page we just added a moment ago. A reading list, as the name implies, is a list of items that you want to read, so we can keep adding webpages to this list here. Once we have read the page, it disappears from this list. And to manage these items, I can swipe to the left and I can either remove it or download it for offline reading. Offline reading is helpful when I'm on a plane with no internet connection. I can open this downloaded page and read it at my own time. So that was left swiping on the reading list item, and if I swipe this item to the right, I can mark it as read. And if I scroll up a bit, I now see a search bar as well as two tabs. One that says "All", and one tab that says "Unread", which would show which reading list items have not been read yet. And to close this view, instead of going to the view menu again, I can just click on the sidebar icon instead. Okay, now back to the toolbar. At the far right of the address bar, we have a refresh icon. When I click it, the page is reloaded once again. At times, this is necessary when you want to view updated information on a webpage. Then, to the far right, we have the share icon, the plus icon, and the tab overview icon. The share icon allows us to share the current webpage either by adding it to our bookmarks and reading list or we can also send the page link via email and messages, among other options. So if I like this page and I want to bookmark it for later access, I'll click on Add Bookmark. This dialogue box appears, and now I need to decide where in my bookmark structure do I want to add it. With simplicity, I'll just add it to my favorites, which is a special folder in my bookmark structure. Then, I need to give it a name and also an optional description. I'll just change the name to make it shorter and then click on Add. Now, to fetch this bookmark, or any bookmark really, I go to the bookmarks menu, and all the way at the bottom, I see favorites, and I see the bookmark I just added at the very bottom since it's the last one I just added. Back to the toolbar again, at the top right, after the share icon, we have the plus icon. When I click it, it adds a new tab. So, now I have two tabs open in Safari and I can toggle between them. I can also move the tabs around by dragging the right tab to be on the left side. And to close the tab, I simply click on the X on the left side of the tab. Now, the last icon in the top right corner of the Safari window, is this icon with the two stacked squares. This is the tab overview icon, and when clicked, it displays all our open tabs in an overview so we can see what each tab is about. I can then click on any tab to navigate to it, and I also have the option to add a new tab as well. Now, let me open a new tab, and I wanted to show you this little settings icon in the bottom right corner of Safari. This is a mini settings icon and it allows us to display a few things on our Safari homepage. For example, I can show my favorites, my frequently visited websites, and I can display the privacy report as well as Siri suggestions, and my reading list. The last option is that I could set and change the Safari background image. I can also add my own custom background image by clicking on the plus sign, or I can uncheck the background image box, and now the Safari homepage is just a plain white background. I like having a background image, so I'll check that option again. Another feature in Safari that is highly customizable is the Safari toolbar. I'll right click anywhere on the toolbar and choose customize toolbar. I could have also opened the same window by going to the view menu, then customize toolbar. The top half of the window includes many single icons that we can add to our toolbar. For example, I can drag the home icon, I can add the history icon, and I can also add the bookmark icon. Now, I'll click on done. My toolbar now includes many icons that can help me be more productive. Now, let's assume you notice that some of the icons are no longer needed and you wish to remove them so you can declutter your toolbar. Well, there are a couple of ways to remove these icons. A quick way is to press and hold the command key, then drag the icon out of the toolbar. So, I'm now holding the command key on my keyboard and I'll drag the favorites icon out of the toolbar, then I will attempt to do the same thing for the home icon. But as you can see, it doesn't work. How about the history icon? It also does not work. So, some icons cannot be removed using this quick shortcut. But if we open customize window again, notice how the icons in the toolbar are now wiggling from side to side? From here, I can just drag them out of the toolbar, this time, without holding the command key. Now, let me put a few icons back again, because I wanna show you what we can do with this default toolbar set down here. So I'll just add a few icons again, randomly. All right, so say this was the current toolbar and you no longer need any of these icons because they're just cluttering your toolbar and you want to revert back to the old toolbar. Well, we now can just drag this default pre-built standard toolbar on top of our cluttered toolbar and it will replace whatever is in my current toolbar. So, I'll drag it to the toolbar area, and now we're back to the basic standard toolbar. So in this lesson, we were introduced to Safari and the basic interface items, and how to navigate in Safari. Thank you for watching.
