Understanding Safari Browser Profiles

macmost.com/e-3058 In macOS Sonoma you can use browser profiles to keep home and work separate while viewing web sites. You can log into different accounts in different profiles and have multiple profiles each open in its own window.
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00:00 Intro
00:35 How Private Browsing Works
01:52 How Profiles Work
05:12 Creating and Using Profiles
07:42 Uses For Safari Profiles
#macmost #mactutorial

[@GrammyAllen]

Wow! I didn't even know Safari had added profiles!! I will definitely use them to help me stay organized! Thanks for sharing!

[@georgee3401]

Excellent tutorial. Very nice clarification of the different uses of Profiles. Many thanks!

[@loisskiathitis8926]

A very useful and informative video tutorial today! Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you, Gary!👏🏻❤️

[@michaelj.1121]

Excellent description and explanations. Great to have the background and potential benefits explained. Thanks for sharing.

[@LucaDePazzi]

Very useful thanks!

[@phileagle8432]

This is great! Fabulous timing as I was just about to find out about profiles. Really clear and well explained - thx so much!

[@carolinebarlow4795]

Thanks very much, Gary, for this extremely informative video! I really must try using separate profiles.

[@seattlebeard]

I would be lost without you, Gary. :o)

[@spongiform]

I wish I had seen this before I cocked my Favourites folders up by misunderstanding how Profiles work lol - very very helpful video, thank you

[@webfrasse]

Been comparing with Profiles in Edge and I must say that Microsoft has done a much better job here. Color themes changes the look of the whole window which makes it MUCH more visual what profile you're using. You can also set which profile url's should open in. This is huge. Big win for Microsoft so far...

[@tarvsingh6241]

EXCELLENT-CONGRATS-THANKS.

[@dickydesai7609]

I wished you would have gone step further and showed how you can save different website tabs and reopen all of them at once when I re-open the same profile. thanks

[@fabriciostatzner8199]

Without shorcuts to swap profiles, it becomes annoying very quickly, which is sad because it is a very good feature.

[@RolfBoard]

One thing that was missing, in my opinion for this new feature on Safari, was the support for advanced shortcuts, and specifically to be able to switch between profiles, without having to iterate through the mouse always... 😥

[@stephenbridges2791]

That's pretty handy. I sort of hate I don't work anymore. Not really. 😎

[@judih.8754]

Me too. I'm learning all this neat stuff with no real reason to use it!

[@jennifernelson9375]

This is awesome! Thank you. I like how you can customize the favorites for each profile. Do you know if the same can be done for the reading lists?

[@macmost]

I don't think so.

[@snappycattimesten]

To make this really useful, Apple needs to create the option for separate private bookmarks for each profile. Currently bookmarks are shared across profiles.

[@macmost]

How does that make it more useful?

[@snappycattimesten]

@@macmost if i want a social media profile, I would like all my social media bookmarks to be quick access. No other unrelated bookmarks. If i want a work profile, I want quick access and visibility of my work only websites, not my social media ones.

[@macmost]

@@snappycattimesten OK, so in each profile set the Favorites to be the bookmarks folder you want. Then you get quick access to the right set of bookmarks just like you said.

[@snappycattimesten]

@@macmost thank you!

[@MariaLiliana-se4]

Hello Gary, is there a way to keep the same bookmarks across my iPhone and Mac devices?

[@geekmeee]

Are Safari Profiles available on iPadOS?

[@macmost]

Yes.

[@owenthomas2005]

Hey Gary, How about an overview of Arc?

[@macmost]

The Arc browser? I don't use it myself. What do you find about it that makes it more useful than Safari.

[@owenthomas2005]

I find it more intuitive to use than Safari@@macmost

[@karayuschij]

Why I don't see the icon extensions in the bar when I create a new profile?

[@macmost]

Did you enable that extension for that profile?

[@alexanderu4208]

Hi Gary I have an extra question on Mac. My Mac stopped locking when the screen is turning off , I did set require password immediately when screen turns off but it will just go dark and when pressing the space key it will just open to my desktop.

[@macmost]

Just check and recheck those settings. Try toggling them off and on.

[@davidpatrick1813]

I could be interesting to see if in one window you do a shopping thing ... and when shopping push ads come one the same topic ... open a different window without shopping for the types of items to see if such types of ads populate ... if it does, then you know each system window set up are not isolated.

[@peteruzek]

Try it yourself. That is the last use case Gary demonstrated.

[@davidpatrick1813]

@@peteruzek will do. Have a great day.

[@schadlarry]

Would a use case be to have a different profile where you are not logged into your social media accounts to keep them from supposedly spying on you? I don't know if it's true or not but I've heard FB still monitors activity even after you close the tab but not logged out.

[@macmost]

Yes, that is absolutely a good use for this. In fact, I use it for just that.

[@KennyLew]

I have been using safari as my primary browser. Now that I am working a second job I separated my work by using chrome as the second browser for the second job. Should I start using safari profiles for the second job.

[@macmost]

If you like, yes. That's what this feature is for.

[@Oldnose63]

Thanks for the video but a a Safari noob I really don’t understand why I would need all those profiles. You mention that you get more privacy but how and why is that? Also it looks confusing to have so many safari windows open where you can have them in tabs in only 1 window. So what is the point, what am I missing 🤷🏼?

[@macmost]

At the end of the video I say: "There are a lot of different uses for this but not everybody needs to use Profiles. I think most Mac users can just use Safari as before..." and then talk about some reasons. You get privacy because the cookies are separate. So when a social media site sets a cookie then you go to another site with a relationship with that social media site, you wouldn't be tracked.

[@Oldnose63]

Thanks Gary I didn’t know that cookies are related to profiles. I just thought they were installed on your computer / browser. It’s definitely something I should try and use.

[@NWCyclist]

Nice theory, but in practice, there are a lot of flaws using safari profiles, like how it manages tabs, or kills tabs unexpectedly.

[@ghoul787]

As soon as I start using a profile, the option to switch profiles does not appear again. Can you tell me why?

[@macmost]

Not sure why. Take another look or use the menu bar.

[@Learner-lq3vu]

hey GARRY is there any way I can turn off the capslock indicator which appears as soon as I press it on my macbook air m1 keyboard?

[@macmost]

No. The point of it is to let you know you are using Caps Lock. Why would you want it off?

[@Learner-lq3vu]

@@macmost its little bit annoying to me me that the capslock arrow appears right on screen moment after I turn the capslock button on.

[@macmost]

@@Learner-lq3vu But that's its purpose. It shows that you are using Caps Lock. This way you don't accidentally type in capital letters..

[@Learner-lq3vu]

@@macmost okay Garry thanks for replying my brother. You are always helpful to me.

[@Learner-lq3vu]

@@macmostGarry can you please tell me one more thing about capslock that whenever I am trying to press the capslock it doesn’t turn on but when I try to press it like in fraction of second it turned on. Is it for purpose to prevent the accidental touch of capslock or should I Visit to service center for checking it.

[@ThatDwayne]

Safari Profiles are VERY rudimentary - I hope they fix this. What do I mean? Here are some examples: First, the Default profile always has all the bookmarks visible (for every profile) and all the extensions are present & enabled - no way to segregate "work" plugins and bookmarks to keep them out of the Personal profile. Second, there is no easy way to 'move' a tab to another profile. Third, maintaining / managing the list of sites that automatically open in a specific Profile is very clunky - there is no way to easily add sites to that list.

[@GeoFernandezMusic]

Why does every time i close/quit safari my google log ins automatically log out in the personal profile?

[@macmost]

Maybe some plugin or extension? Or maybe you are using private windows or profiles in some way?

[@GeoFernandezMusic]

@@macmost im using the default personal profile

[@macmost]

@@GeoFernandezMusic OK. Keep investigating. Check your settings. Check your extensions. Check your Google account settings. The way to solve problems like this is to investigate and check things.

[@GeoFernandezMusic]

@@macmost i dont have any extensions, i just bought this last week