Surfin' Safari: Using the iPhone's Safari Web Browser
- Launching Safari
- Keying in a URL Manually
- Navigating a Webpage
- Using Your Bookmarks
- Adding a Bookmark
- Editing a Bookmark
- Deleting a Bookmark
- Adding a Web Clip
- Multiple Home Screens
- Rearrange Your Home Screen Icons
- Removing a Web Clip
- Using Google or Yahoo Search
- Viewing Your Pages Horizontally
- Dialing a Phone Number on a Webpage
- Navigating Back and Forth
- Getting a New Page
- Navigate Between Pages in Safari
- Refreshing a Page
- Viewing RSS Feeds on the iPhone
- Filling in an Online Form on Your iPhone
- Closing a Page
- MMS Support-Kind Of
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Launching Safari
Safari is the iPhoneâs Web browser. It is by far the best Web browsing experience on a mobile phone to date. Safari will launch automatically when you tap on a URL (Web address) in one of the other applications. However, if you want to launch it manually, itâs easy. Go to the Home screen and tap the Safari button at the bottom of the screen. The first time you launch Safari, it will launch to a blank screen.