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How to add bookmarks and favorites on an iPhone's Safari browser for quick access to your preferred webpages

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You can bookmark pages on your iPhone's Safari browser with just a few taps. K303/Shutterstock
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Like any web browser, you can bookmark web pages you want to return to using Safari on your iPhone.

Once bookmarked, you can find these saved pages by tapping the Bookmark button at the bottom of the Safari screen. 

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How to save a bookmark on your iPhone's Safari browser

1. Start the Safari app and open a web page that you want to bookmark. 

2. Tap the Share button (the square with an arrow).

3. Tap "Add Bookmark."

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Use the Add Bookmark button to save bookmarks in Safari on your iPhone.  Dave Johnson/Business Insider

4. On the Add Bookmark page, you can edit the name of the bookmark and even tweak the URL if necessary — just tap either of those fields and type as needed. 

5. If you want to store the bookmark in the default Favorites folder, tap "Save." If you want to choose a different folder, tap "Favorites" and then choose a folder (or create a new one) and then tap "Save."

If you save your bookmark to the default folder, it will appear in the list of favorites when you open a blank new tab in Safari, giving you fast access to commonly used web sites.

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You can customize your bookmark by changing its name as well as which bookmark folder you organize it in.  Dave Johnson/Business Insider

The difference between favorites and bookmarks in Safari

You might notice that when you tap the Share button, there are options to add both a bookmark and a favorite. Since the Favorites folder happens to be the default location to save bookmarks, this can be somewhat confusing. 

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There is also an option to save your page as a favorite in the Share menu.  Dave Johnson/Business Insider

In reality, favorites are just a special kind of bookmark. If you save a bookmark to the Favorites folder (either using the Add Bookmark button or the "Add to Favorites" button in the Share menu), it's effectively the exact same thing as a favorite.  If you store a bookmark in a different folder, you'll need to navigate past the default Favorites folder to find them. 

Bottom line: Using the "Add to Favorites" button does the same thing as using the default folder for "Add bookmark."

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When you open a new tab, you'll see a list of your favorite bookmarks.  Dave Johnson/Business Insider

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Dave Johnson is a technology journalist who writes about consumer tech and how the industry is transforming the speculative world of science fiction into modern-day real life. Dave grew up in New Jersey before entering the Air Force to operate satellites, teach space operations, and do space launch planning. He then spent eight years as a content lead on the Windows team at Microsoft. As a photographer, Dave has photographed wolves in their natural environment; he's also a scuba instructor and co-host of several podcasts. Dave is the author of more than two dozen books and has contributed to many sites and publications including CNET, Forbes, PC World, How To Geek, and Insider.