Learn how to browse Safari’s history through the toolbar and go directly to a webpage you’ve visited before in Safari on the Mac.
Did you know you could browse your website history through the toolbar in Safari on the Mac? You can see all the pages you’ve visited since you’ve opened your browser. In addition, you can easily go back or forward to any one of the webpages you’ve visited before. See how to browse your history and select a webpage you’ve visited before in Safari on the Mac.
Video Transcript (video also has closed captions):
In this video, I’m going to show you how you can browse your history in Safari using the toolbar. Let’s go to my Mac.
Let’s open up Safari here. Now what I’m going to do is go to a few different sites. Let’s go to CNN. Now I’m going to go to my site. So I just go command-L and I type in Dan’s Tutorials. Let’s browse a few pages with Dan’s Tutorials. I’m going to go to my Tutorials here. Let’s take a look at my Events. And we’re going to go to one more, let’s take a look at my Tips and lessons.
So now I’ve created some history in Safari. What I want to do now is go back to CNN. I want to go back to one of the previous pages that I visited. How do we do that? Well, we could just go to these arrows in the toolbar and click on them to go back and forth. So I’d have to click on the left arrow about four different times because I browsed about four different pages. Well also what you can do is click and hold on this. I’m going to click and hold on this left arrow. And when I do that, I can see my complete history. So now what I’m able to do is go directly to CNN. I select it, and I’m back at CNN. Let’s say I wanted to go to my Tutorials page. I go over to my right arrow here and I can click on it until I get back to my Tutorials page. But also what I can do is click and hold on it and I can go directly to that page. I just select this and it takes me back. Let’s go back over to Dan’s Tutorials. I click and hold on my left arrow here and we go over to Dan’s Tutorials.
So that’s how you can easily go back and forth between your history using the toolbar in Safari. As you browse different pages, Safari will keep track of those different pages that you visited. If you want to go back to any of those previous pages, all you have to do is just click and hold on the left arrow or the right arrow, depending on which direction you want to go. And then you can select from any one of the previous pages that you visited.
So that’s how you can use the toolbar to go back and forth between your different pages that you visited in Safari.