The Safari browser on iPhone has a useful feature that shares your website tabs and web history with other Apple devices that you own. If you use the same iCloud account with all of your devices, then your Safari data is seamlessly synced between them.
While this is useful some users might want to turn it off due to privacy concerns. If you are one of those people and want to stop sharing your iPhone’s Safari web history and website tabs with other Apple devices such as iPads and Macs, then follow the steps below.
Turn Off iCloud Sharing For Safari
Safari syncs all your bookmarks, reading lists, tab groups, and open browser tabs with your devices. You can stop this sharing with other Apple devices that you own by following the steps below.
- On your iPhone open Settings and tap on your name from the top.
- On the next screen tap on iCloud.
- Tap on the ‘See All’ option.
- Turn off the toggle for ‘Safari’.
Turn Off Handoff
Want to stop your website tabs from appearing on your iPad or Mac? Then you have to turn off the Handoff feature, which lets you start something on one device and instantly pick up another device and continue.
- Go to Settings and tap on General.
- Here tap on AirPlay & Continuity.
- On the next screen turn off the toggle for Handoff.
There you have it folks, this is how you can stop the Safari browser from sharing your web history and tabs with other Apple devices that you own and boost your privacy.
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