Syncing Bookmarks

Bookmarks—those helpful little point-and-click shortcuts that have saved us all countless hours of mistyping Web site addresses—are a reflection of your personality, because they generally tend to be sites that are important to you. Fortunately, they can make the trip to your iPhone, too. In fact, any bookmarks you create on the iPhone can eventually be copied back to your computer, too; it's a two-way street.

iTunes can transfer your bookmarks from Internet Explorer or Safari (Windows), or from the Safari browser on a Mac. Just plug in the iPhone, click its icon in iTunes, and click the Info tab. Scroll down past Contacts and Calendars and Mail Accounts until you get to the section called Web Browser. Then:

  • In Windows, turn on Sync bookmarks from:, and then choose either Safari or Internet Explorer from the pop-up menu. Click Apply to sync.

  • On the Mac, turn on Sync Safari bookmarks and click Apply.

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Special Instructions for Firefox Fans

If Mozilla's Firefox browser is your preferred window to the Web, you can still get those foxy favorites moved over to the iPhone. But you'll have to do it the long way—by importing bookmarks from Firefox into Safari. And while this setup will get your bookmarks onto the iPhone, it won't establish a living, two-way sync; new bookmarks you add on the iPhone won't get synced back to Firefox.

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