Customizing Browser Settings with Your iPhone 5 and Safari

Part of the iPhone 5 For Seniors For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Getting on the Internet with your iPhone is easy using its Wi-Fi or 3G/4G LTE capabilities. Once you’re online, the bundled browser, Safari, is your ticket to a wide world of information, entertainment, education, and more. You can customize and enhance your Safari experience by accessing and modifying the settings in the following table; simply tap the Settings app icon on the Home screen and then tap Safari.

Setting	Description
Search Engine	Choose among Google, Bing, and Yahoo! search engines.
AutoFill	Turn on AutoFill to automatically complete contact information, names, or passwords as you type.
Open Links	Control whether linked pages open in a new page or in the background.
Private Browsing	Turn the Private Browsing feature, which prevents Safari from storing information about your browsing activities, on or off.
Accept Cookies	Specify whether to accept cookies only from sites you’ve visited, never, or always.
Clear History	Tap to clear the history of websites you’ve visited in the browser.
Clear Cookies and Data	Clear any website cookies and data that have been stored on your iPhone.
Use Cellular Data	Turn on to allow your cellular network to save items on the Reading List to the phone so you can read them offline.
Fraud Warning	Turn on the feature to warn you when you go to suspicious websites.
JavaScript	Turn this on to enable JavaScript-based features such as rollover and pop-up menus and some other browser-generated content to run in Safari.
Block Pop-Ups	Turn this on to block (most) pop-up windows from displaying in the browser.
Advanced	Review data stored on your device by individual websites and allow Debug Console to display information to help you resolve errors when displaying web pages.