With the macOS High Sierra update, you're going to see some small but significant changes to the way you browse the internet. Whether you're trying to keep your browsing habits out of the hands of major corporations or just want to give more or less permissions to websites individually, Safari will make you feel like you're more in control of your internet lifestyle. Here's what's new with Safari in macOS High Sierra.
Intelligent tracking prevention
Apple today released Safari 12 for macOS Sierra and High Sierra, introducing the same Safari improvements that are coming to macOS Mojave in the Safari 12 software bundled with that update. Apple’s macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 may not be the latest Mac OS, but it's still a great operating system. Here’s everything you need to know about macOS 10.13 from compatibility to how to.
Apple wants you to feel like you are more in control of what companies do with your web browsing activities. In macOS High Sierra, Safari will have a feature that tries to stop websites from tracking your cross-site behavior to restrict what companies can do with your personal data.
You know when you visit to Amazon and look at some gadget you might want to buy, then you go to another website and an advertisement for that exact gadget pops up? Safari's intelligent tracking prevention hopes to stop that from happening. Plus a few other tracking bits.
You can set up Safari in macOS High Sierra to 'try to prevent cross-site tracking' in the app settings under Privacy. It's not guaranteed to work. Some companies will improve tracking technology to override the block, but it'll help speed up your browsing experience and at least some websites won't be tracking your internet activities anymore.
Autoplay is not longer automatic
Probably one of the most annoying things about browsing the internet is that moment when a video starts playing while your reading an article and it's late at night while your family is asleep and you have to rush to find the mute button to stop it from waking everyone up.
On Safari in macOS High Sierra, you can disable autoplay for audio, video, and both. No more surprise songs appearing while you're in a meeting.
In the settings section of Safari, you'll be able to select whether you want to allow all autoplay content, just stop media that plays sound, or never autoplay anything. Plus, you can customize individual websites with different settings each.
Customizing your website browsing experience
Speaking of customizing individual websites with different settings, you can customize a lot of your web browsing settings for every single website you visit, which is great if you want to, say, allow ads on your favorite websites (ahem, iMore) so they can make a little money but block others. You can set reader view for some websites while leaving others as is. Even such features as page zoom, camera use, microphone enable, location tracking, and notifications can all be customized on an individual basis.
As you visit websites, they will show up on the customization list where you can enable or disable different features. You can also set every other site with a specific setting. For example, you could enable always autoplay for YouTube but never autoplay when visiting all other websites. Then, when you visit a new site on which you would like autoplay enabled, you could add it to the list by customizing it.
Settings for individual site customization are found in the Websites section of Safari settings in macOS High Sierra.
Automatic Reader View
As noted above, you can customize individual websites with specific browsing settings, and that includes Reader View. When you enable reader view for websites, it hides the extraneous bits of content, like sidebar social networking stuff, the comments section, and ads.
You can set up Reader View on Safari in macOS Sierra, but it goes away when you leave a web page. With High Sierra, you can an entire website with Reader View instead of just a web page. Plus, you can turn your entire web browsing experience into permanent Reader View. Of course, it only works with supported sites. Some websites don't have Reader View options. Those jerks.
Safari turned up to 11
Apple did some behind-the-scenes fine tuning to Safari in macOS High Sierra to make it faster. Much faster. According to benchmark tests done in May of 2017, Safari performed better than other big browsers using macOS and Windows dual-booted on a Mac. If you didn't think Safari was up to speed before, give it a try again after the High Sierra update and see if you notice a difference.
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macOS High Sierra is an incremental upgrade, at best. The climb from Sierra to High Sierra is a scenic one but it brings but a handful of little features to this update. High Sierra is more about the behind-the-scenes changes and stability improvements (which might be reason enough to upgrade for some).
A major part of High Sierra’s appeal are the improvements made to Safari. Not only is Safari 11 much faster when it comes to Javascript performance, it also brings useful features like cross-site tracking prevention, autoplay video blocking and Auto Reader mode.
You might be interested in using these features (especially if Safari is your default browser. But you might not want to upgrade to High Sierra just yet. There’s a way to get all these features and run Safari 11 on macOS Sierra. Here’s how.
Read more: macOS High Sierra Features: All the New and Hidden Features
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How to Run Safari 11 on macOS Sierra
While new Safari features come out with new major OS release, Safari runs on its own different development cycle. Which means that as long as you’re running the latest version of macOS Sierra, you can upgrade to the latest version of Safari.
Step 1: Open the App Store, go to the Updates section and upgrade your Mac to the latest version of macOS Sierra (10.12.6 at the time of writing).
Step 2: Reboot your Mac to install the Sierra update.
Step 3: Now, again, go to the App Store and visit the Updates tab. Here you’ll find an update for Safari.
Step 4: Click on Install button next to the Safari 11 section. The app will be downloaded and installed.
Now just launch Safari again and you’ll have access to all the new features right there.
New Safari Features You Should Explore
Now that you’re running Safari 11, spend some time exploring the new features.
Auto Reader: To turn on Auto Reader mode for the website you’re visiting, right-click on the Reader button and select Use Reader Automatically on “www.example.com.
Stop Autoplay Videos: When you’re on the website, right-click on the URL bar and select Settings for This Website. From the drop-down, spot the Auto-Play section and click on the options next to it. Then select Never Auto-Play.
What do you think of the new Safari features? How long will you hold out before upgrading to High Sierra? Share with us in the comments below.