Articles or websites that you want to view at a later time can be added to the Reading List in Safari. By keeping them offline, you can then access them at any time with or without an internet connection. Here’s how to save articles from your Safari Reading List offline.
Use Safari Reading List offline
An interesting background article, the website of a potential holiday address or a delicious recipe. The default browser Safari lets you easily save them to the Reading List. This is where you store them, without having to keep their tabs open.
To then read them, you do need an internet connection, unless you keep them offline. This can be done both automatically and per separate tab. You can set your Reading List articles offline by default as follows.
- Open Settings;
- Go to the ‘Safari’ menu and scroll all the way to the bottom;
- Under the heading ‘Reading list’ you will find the option ‘Automatically save offline’. Set the slider behind this to green.
Now any webpage you add to your Reading List will also be saved offline. This happens in your iCloud, so make sure you have some space in it. As soon as you open an article from your Reading List, it doesn’t matter if you are offline.
Save articles offline manually
Don’t want to keep everything that ends up in your Reading List offline? It is also possible to arrange this per tab. To do this, you must first add an article or page to the Reading List.
- Open Safari and go to the article you want to keep in your Reading List;
- Tap the share icon on the bar at the bottom;
- In the bottom bar of it, select the option ‘Add to reading list’;
- Then tap the bookmark icon and navigate via the menu at the top to ‘Reading list’ with the glasses icon;
- Briefly slide the article you want to save offline to the right and tap ‘Save offline’.
Have you eliminated a lot of articles from your Reading List? Then it is just as convenient to close all open Safari tabs at once. If you accidentally closed a tab with an article you still wanted to read, you can easily retrieve accidentally closed tabs. Also view our tips for more privacy and security in Safari, among other things.