There are several ways to search the web in Apple’s Safari browser. In this article, we’re going to highlight a way of searching specific websites using a lesser-known Safari feature called Quick Website Search . The option is designed to work with sites that have a built-in search field, like the one you can find at the top of the main page at MacRumors.com. Here’s how it works.
Let’s say you want to look up articles on MacRumors that mention device benchmarks. You might do this by typing “macrumors benchmarks” into Safari’s address bar to get results from whichever search engine the browser is configured to use. If you’re a bit more search savvy, you might even type “site: macrumors.com benchmarks” to limit the search to MacRumors. But ideally you’d just navigate to MacRumors.com and use the search field provided at the top of the page.
If you take the latter option and Quick Website Search is enabled, Safari will remember that you’ve used the MacRumors search field and offer to use it again in future searches that include the website’s name. For example, if you typed “macrumors” followed by “deals” directly into Safari’s address bar, you could tap the option Search macrumors.com for “deals” in the suggestions box, as shown above, and you’d get instant results from MacRumors’ own on-site search function.
How to Enable Quick Website Search in iOS
The functionality of Quick Website Search depends on how a given site implements its search field, but we’ve found that it works with most popular websites that offer them, so it’s worth making sure you have the feature enabled. To do this on iPhone and iPad, launch the Settings app, tap Safari -> Quick Website Search and slide the Quick Website Search toggle to the green ON position.
Notice on this screen that you can also tap Edit to remove websites from the list of shortcuts that Safari automatically adds to whenever you use a site-specific search field.
How to Enable Quick Website Search on Mac
The feature works the same way in Safari for macOS. To see if it’s enabled, select Safari -> Preferences… from the menu bar, choose the Search tab, and make sure the checkbox is ticked next to Enable Quick Website Search .
Lastly, if you click the Manage Websites… button next to the checkbox, you can view Safari’s list of website shortcuts, remove individual websites, or clear the list completely.
Tag: Safari 13 comments Get weekly top MacRumors stories in your inbox. Top Rated Comments the_color_orange 80 months ago Great tip! Subtle features that are often overlooked. Score: 2 Votes ( Like | Disagree ) jmh600cbr 80 months ago List of sites that have this? Didn’t know it existed until now Score: 2 Votes ( Like | Disagree ) mcfrazieriv 80 months ago Great tip! Subtle features that are often overlooked. Your dog looks pleased. Score: 1 Votes ( Like | Disagree ) 69Mustang 80 months ago I love that Apple is doing everything they can to cut Google out of the search equation. Hmmm… Everything? Score: 1 Votes ( Like | Disagree ) linkmaster02 80 months ago List of sites that have this? Didn’t know it existed until now Hold on, give me a few years to try out all 1.8 billion websites and I’ll put a list together for you. Score: 1 Votes ( Like | Disagree ) coolfactor 80 months ago When using the Search Engine feature (Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing) to do a site-specific search, there should be no spaces after site: site:macrumors.com search term here Your instructions above show a space after site:, which is not valid. Score: 1 Votes ( Like | Disagree ) Read All Comments Popular Stories ‘iPhone 17 Air’ With Rear Camera Bar Allegedly Shown in Leaked Photo Tuesday January 21, 2025 12:46 pm PST by Joe Rossignol A leaker known as “Majin Bu” today shared an alleged image of a component for the rumored, ultra-thin “iPhone 17 Air” model.
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