Read the web more comfortably

Discover Safari’s Reader and Reading List features on iOS

REQUIRES > An iPad and something to read online

LEVEL > Easy

IT WILL TAKE > 5 minutes

The WEB is littered with difficultto-read pages with disjointed text surrounded by flashing adverts. Articles are also split up over several pages (requiring you to click through to read them) and you often pinball past pages without fully catching them.

Safari Reader mode strips a webpage of all its extraneous content, leaving you with just the article’s text and images to read. It also stitches multiple pages together into a single article, turning rapid-fire web pages into an iBooks-like experience. Discovering Reader is a joyful experience among the chaotic din that is the general internet.

Reading List sits alongside Reader (and your bookmarks) and gives you the ability to save a page for later. Reading List is perfect for when you’re flicking around the internet and find an article you want to look at, but just don’t have the time there and then. Add it to Reading List and you can view it later. These two features sit together, and you use Reading List to save truly interesting articles, and Reader mode to strip away the web grime and focus on pure text.

Another way to make websites easier to read is to get rid of troublesome content using a Content Blocker. Download an app such as Crystal from the App Store. Once it has downloaded, open Settings > Safari and choose Content Blockers. Ensure that Crystal (or your chosen blocker) is set to On. Now when you use Safari, the more troublesome ads will be removed, allowing you to focus on the content. Don’t forget to turn Crystal off for sites you like, though (the ads keep these publications alive).