iOS 17: Using Safari Profiles to Distinguish Your Online Behavior
A new feature called Profiles has been added to Safari in iOS 17 to help you divide your browser sessions into categories like Work, School, and Personal. Here are the instructions for using it both in the beta and when iOS 17 is made available to everyone later this month.
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Apple enhances Tab Groups in iOS 17 with a Profile feature that enables you to segregate your browsing for various use cases. For example, you can create distinct "Work" and "Personal" profiles to keep all of your browsing separate from your personal browsing.
Each profile has an own icon and compartmentalizes your history, tab groups, favorites, and private information.
Cookies and tabs for browsing. Depending on the work at hand, you may even attach particular extensions to different profiles to maximize your browsing experience.
How to Create a Profile in Safari
Simply follow these steps to set up profiles on iPhones running iOS 17:
1 Your iPhone or iPad should now be in the Settings app.
2 For Safari, scroll below.
3 Tap New Profile under the "Profiles" section.
4 Choose a profile icon, a name, and a background color.
5 Select the preferences for Favorites and New Tabs.
6 Click Done.
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Your device will automatically create a "Personal" profile when you create a new profile to distinguish it from other browsing sessions carried out while using a different profile.
In the same section, you may change both your existing profiles and any extra ones you establish. in the same area as the Settings application. You can choose to enable any Safari extensions you have installed on your device when changing an existing profile. You can also choose to delete the profile if you so choose.
In Safari, how to Change Between Profiles
Tap the Tabs icon in Safari, which has two overlapping squares.
To access the menu for the active profile, tap the middle icon.
To switch which profile is active, tap the Profile option.
The Safari Profiles feature is included in Safari 17 for macOS Monterey and macOS Ventura, as well as being accessible in iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma. You can sync any profiles you make across all of your devices that are connected to the same Apple ID.
The updated Safari also includes more enhancements to search, upgraded Siri integration, and more privacy-related features. Our thorough iOS 17 roundup includes a list of all the new features included in the update.
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