iPhone: The Missing Manual

Manipulating Multiple Pages

Like any self-respecting browser, Safari can keep multiple pages open at once, making it easy for you to switch between them. You can think of it as a miniature version of tabbed browsing, a feature of browsers like Safari Senior, Firefox, and the latest Internet Explorer, which keeps a bunch of Web pages open simultaneously—in a single, neat window.

The beauty of this arrangement is that you can start reading one Web page while the others load into their own tabs in the background.

On the iPhone, it works like this:

• To open a new window, tap the button in the lower-right. The Web page shrinks into a mini version. Tap New Page to open a new, untitled Web-browser tab; now you can enter an address, use a bookmark, or whatever.

  Note

  Sometimes, Safari sprouts a new window automatically when you click a link. That's because the link you tapped is programmed to open a new window. To return to the original window, read on.

  

• To switch back to the first window, tap again. Now there are two dots (..) beneath the miniature page, indicating that two windows are open. (The boldest, whitest dot indicates where you are in the horizontal row of windows.) Bring the first window's ...