Want your favorite websites always at hand on all your Apple devices? Exchange the Bookmarks in Safari via iCloud.
Exchange bookmarks
Bookmarks are shortcuts to web pages. Do you use Safari on different devices, for example on an iPad and a MacBook? Then it is useful to synchronize the Bookmarks via iCloud. So your favorite websites are available on any device. Make sure that the data from Safari can be stored in iCloud on each device. For the free online storage service iCloud, people need an Apple ID by the way.
Set up on Mac
Activate Safari in iCloud like this:
- Click the apple icon in the top left of the menu.
- click on System Preferences.
- click on Apple ID.
- If you are already logged in with your iCloud account on the computer, your details will be listed in the left part of the window. Not logged in yet?
- Click in the field behind ‘Apple ID’.
- Enter the email address associated with the Apple ID.
- click on Next one.
- Enter the corresponding password.
- click on Next one.
- A verification code may arrive on one of your Apple devices. On that device, click/tap Allow.
- The code appears on the screen. Enter the verification code on your Mac.
- Enter the Mac password if prompted and click OK.
- Decide if you want to merge Contacts, Calendars, and Safari with iCloud. We click merge.
- Decide if you want to set up Find My Mac. Read the explanation in the window for this. We click Allow.
- Make sure there is a checkmark in front of Safari.
- click on OK to merge the Mac’s Bookmarks and Reading List with the data in iCloud.
Set up on iPhone or iPad
Activate Safari in iCloud on the iPad/iPhone like this:
- Tap on Institutions.
- Tap your name. Not signed in yet, but do you have an Apple ID?
- Tap on Log in to your iPhone/iPad.
- Tap on E-mail and type the email address.
- Tap on Next one.
- Enter the corresponding password and tap Next one.
- If you have additional Apple devices or have provided a phone number, a verification code will arrive on them. Enter this code.
- If there is a passcode set for the iPad/iPhone, enter it now.
- Tap on iCloud.
- Check whether the slider behind ‘Safari’ is green. Is that the case? Then you don’t have to do anything. Is the slider gray? Then tap it.