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iPhone User Guide

Create multiple Safari profiles on iPhone

You can create multiple Safari profiles—like Personal, Work, and School—and use them to separate your internet browsing into different themes. Each profile has separate favorites, histories, tabs, and Tab Groups. You can add, edit, or remove a profile at any time.

👁 An iPhone screen, showing the setup for a new profile. Options include an icon, color, bookmarks folder, and the page you want new tabs to open to.

Create a profile

The profiles you create on iPhone also appear in Safari settings on any iPhone, iPad, or Mac where you’re signed in to the same Apple Account.

  1. Go to the Settings app 👁 Image
    on your iPhone.

  2. Tap Apps, then tap Safari.

  3. Tap New Profile, then tap Name.

  4. Enter a name for this profile, then choose an icon and color.

  5. Below Settings, tap Favorites to choose a bookmarks folder.

    If you have multiple folders of bookmarks, this option selects the folder of bookmarked websites that are recommended as you enter an address, search, or create a new tab. For example, if you have a folder of bookmarks related to work, you can create a work profile and use this field to ensure that those websites are suggested as you type in the address field.

  6. Tap Open New Tabs and choose the page you want new tabs to open to.

  7. Tap 👁 the Done button
    .

Use profiles in Safari

You can easily browse the internet with a profile, or move between profiles.

  1. Go to the Safari app 👁 Image
    on your iPhone.

  2. Tap 👁 the More button
    ,     then tap All Tabs.

    If your Tabs layout is Bottom or Top, tap 👁 the Tabs button
    .     See Change the layout in Safari.

  3. Tap 👁 the More button
    in the upper-left corner.

  4. Tap Profile, then select the profile you want to use.

Note: You can access your saved bookmarks and passwords in iCloud keychain from any profile.

👁 An iPhone screen, showing currently open tabs and a menu of Personal, School, and Work profiles. The Personal profile is selected.

Edit a profile

  1. Go to the Settings app 👁 Image
    on your iPhone.

  2. Tap Apps, then tap Safari.

  3. Tap the profile you want to edit.

Choose which extensions to use with a profile

You can install extensions to customize the way your browser works on iPhone. See Get extensions to customize Safari.

If you have extensions installed on your iPhone, you can customize which extensions you want to use with each profile.

  1. Go to the Settings app 👁 Image
    on your iPhone.

  2. Tap Apps, then tap Safari.

  3. Tap Extensions, then tap an extension.

  4. Turn on the profiles you want to use with this extension (below Allow Extension In).

Remove a profile

You can delete a profile at any time. This action also erases the favorites, history, and Tab Groups associated with the profile, and closes all websites open in the profile.

Important: This action can’t be undone.

  1. Go to the Settings app 👁 Image
    on your iPhone.

  2. Tap Apps, then tap Safari.

  3. Tap a profile.

  4. Tap Delete Profile, then tap Delete to confirm.

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