# iPhone, Safari, websites **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 30, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-safari-websites/837882 "2019-07-30T16:31:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-safari-websites/837882/1 "2019-07-30T16:31:01Z")
I don’t use my iPhone much. I rarely make or receive calls on it. I’ll do the odd text, but I don’t ‘live’ on it. Sometimes though, I find myself someplace I need to kill some time and I’ll try a bit of web browsing. Safari opens onto the last page I visited. How do I A) Set it to open up to a home page; and B) Clear history? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-safari-websites/837882/2 "2019-07-30T18:04:36Z")
> **[iPhone & iPad: Set Safari Home Page - Technipages](https://www.technipages.com/ios-set-safari-home-page)** > > How to set home page for Safari on your Apple iPhone or iPad. > **[Clear the history and cookies from Safari on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch](https://support.apple.com/lv-lv/HT201265)** > > Learn how to delete your history, cookies, and cache in Settings. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-safari-websites/837882/3 "2019-08-08T16:20:36Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > [https://www.technipages.com/ios-set-safari-home-page](https://www.technipages.com/ios-set-safari-home-page) > > [Clear the history, cache, and cookies from Safari on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Atbalsts (LV)](https://support.apple.com/lv-lv/HT201265) Thanks. I’ve cleared History. I followed the instructions on setting the Safari homepage, and it gave me an icon on my desktop (‘phonetop’?). But when I went to CNN, closed Safari, and then re-opened Safari, it opened to CNN. I see that the new icon works (I set it to google); but is there a way to set a homescreen in Safari, such that when I just open Safari, it opens to that page? ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-safari-websites/837882/4 "2019-08-08T16:30:17Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Thanks. I’ve cleared History. > > I followed the instructions on setting the Safari homepage, and it gave me an icon on my desktop (‘phonetop’?). But when I went to CNN, closed Safari, and then re-opened Safari, it opened to CNN. I see that the new icon works (I set it to google); but is there a way to set a homescreen in Safari, such that when I just open Safari, it opens to that page? No. The only way to do it is pick your preferred ‘home’ site, use the function in the first link to add that page to your home screen, then _use the icon generated by that step in place of ever opening Safari from it’s own icon_. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-safari-websites/837882/5 "2019-08-08T16:43:29Z")
> [@Pork\_Rind](#): > > No. The only way to do it is pick your preferred ‘home’ site, use the function in the first link to add that page to your home screen, then _use the icon generated by that step in place of ever opening Safari from it’s own icon_. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2019, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-safari-websites/837882/6 "2019-08-08T16:56:54Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > ☹ Ultimately, what’s the difference though? You can put your link icon where Safari was and banish the Safari icon to a never-used last page of icons and the only difference will be what color the icon is. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeysBrother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@MonkeysBrother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeysBrother)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2019, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iphone-safari-websites/837882/7 "2019-08-10T00:33:57Z")
Thanks, beowulff and Pork Rind. I had the same question and now I have a nice, new, usable icon on my phonetop. Joe