Saving a Website as a Home Screen Icon

To make accessing your favorite websites even faster, you can store a website as an icon on your Home screen. To do so, follow these steps:

  1. From the Home screen, tap Safari. The Safari screen appears.

  2. Visit your favorite website.

  3. Tap the Action icon (it looks like a square with a curved arrow). A menu of options appears.

  4. Tap Add to Home Screen. An Add to Home window and a virtual keyboard appear, as shown in Figure 12-6.

  5. Type or edit a short descriptive name for your website.

  6. Tap Add. Your chosen website appears as an icon on your Home screen.

Storing a bookmarked site to your Home screen.

Figure 12-6. Storing a bookmarked site to your Home screen.

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