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How to Find Missing Safari Icon on iPhone or iPad

By: Waseem Patwegar | Filed Under: iOS

When the Safari Icon goes missing from the Home screen of iPhone, most users start thinking about the possibility of Safari App being accidentally deleted by them or by someone with access to their device.

However, this is never the case as Apple prevents users from deleting native apps and Safari happens to be one of the most essential native Apps that cannot be deleted from an Apple device.

In most cases, the problem of missing Safari Icon ends up being due to the Safari App being accidentally moved to another Home Screen or becoming hidden in a Folder on the App Library screen.

A less common reason for Safari Icon missing or disappearing from the Home screen on iPhone is due to the Safari App being restricted by Screen Time Settings .

What to Do If Safari Icon is Missing on iPhone?

It can be quite frustrating to find Safari Icon missing on iPhone. Fortunately, in most cases, you should be able to fix this problem using the following steps.

1. Check All Home Screens & Folders

As mentioned above, the most common reason for Safari Icon missing on iPhone is due to the Safari App being accidentally moved to another Home Screen or a Folder.

Hence, the first step would be to carefully go through all the Home screens on your iPhone and look for the Safari App.

Also, go through all Folders and make sure that Safari Icon is not hiding in a Folder on your device.

2. Search For Safari Browser On iPhone

Follow the steps below to make your iPhone look for the missing Safari app.

1. Bring up the Search bar on the Home screen of your iPhone ( Swipe down or Swipe left , depending on the model of your iPhone).

2.  Type Safari in the Search bar and this should bring up Safari App in the search results.

3. Tap & Hold on the Safari Icon , drag it upwards slightly and release the finger to place Safari Icon back on the Home Screen of your iPhone.

Note: Even if the Safari App is hidden in a Folder, you will see the name of the Folder in which the Safari App Icon is hidden on your device.

3. Look For Safari in App Library

If you had accidentally removed Safari from the Home screen, it should be available in the App Library on your iPhone.

1. Swipe Left on the Home screen of your iPhone, until you reach the App Library screen.

2. On App Library screen, type Safari in the Search bar and you should find Safari appearing in the Search results.

3. Once Safari appears in the search results, tap and hold on Safari Icon and select Add to Home Screen option.

This should immediately bring the Safari Icon back on the Home Screen of your device.

4. Unhide Home Screen

Another possibility is that you may have accidentally moved Safari to another Home screen and also hidden that Home Screen.

1. Tap & Hold on the Dots located on the Home Screen of your iPhone.

2. Look for Safari Icon in the Thumbnails and tap below the Thumbnail that contains the Safari Icon (if it does not have the check mark).

3. This will unhide the Screen containing Safari Icon and you will find Safari back on the Home screen of your iPhone.

5. Reset Home Screen

An easy way to get native Apps like Safari back to their default position on the Home screen of your iPhone is to Reset the Home Screen.

1. Go to Settings > General > Transfer or Reset iPhone > Reset .

2. On the Reset Screen, select Reset Home Screen Layout option.

As mentioned above, resetting the Home Screen should bring back the Safari Icon to its usual position on the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad.

6. Disable Restrictions on Safari App

You may have accidentally or intentionally placed restrictions on Safari App, in order to prevent the possibility of your children accessing the internet and using up all your data.

1. Open Settings > Go to Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions and tap on Allowed Apps .

2. On Allowed Apps screen, move the toggle next to Safari to  ON  position.

Note: If you are using Screen Time Passcode , you will be prompted to enter Screen Time Passcode.

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• Use App Library to bring Safari back to the home screen.

Fix 1: Unhide Home Screen Page

If the Safari icon has gone missing along with other app icons, you might have hidden a home screen page.

Step 1: On your iPhone’s home screen, touch and hold the page dots at the bottom until you see the thumbnails of your home screen.

Step 2: The pages that have checkmarks under them are enabled. Look for the page with the Safari browser and tap on the selection circle under it to enable it.

That’s it. Now, go to your phone’s home screen, and you should see the Safari icon.

Fix 2: Remove Screen Time Restrictions From iPhone

If you can’t find Safari on your iPhone using the above methods, you must check and remove screen time restrictions from the Safari app.

Step 1: Open Settings on your iPhone > go to Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions .

Step 2: Tap on Allowed Apps . Turn off the toggle next to Safari . It should turn green.

That’s it. Go to your home screen, and you should see the Safari app. If the Safari icon is missing, use the above methods to put it back on the home screen.

Fix 3: Reset Home Screen Layout

Resetting the home screen layout of your iPhone will delete folders that you have created on the home screen and put all the pre-installed Apple apps, including Safari, at their original location. This will help in restoring Safari to the home screen.

To reset the home screen layout, go to Settings > General > Transfer or Reset > Reset > Reset Home Screen Layout .

Once reset, go back to the home screen, and you should see the Safari icon happily sitting over there. If Safari doesn’t work, learn how to fix Safari not working on your iPhone .

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How To Fix A Missing Safari Icon On iPhone Or iPad

Safari is built into iOS and cannot be removed from your iPhone or iPad (except when the device has been jailbroken), but it can go missing from the home screen. If it does, it's often easy enough to locate it.

You can usually find it with the Spotlight — swipe down on the home screen and search "safari." Sometimes a user will tuck Safari into a cluttered folder where the icon can get lost. To find it, you just have to look for it.

Suppose you always launch the app from the App Library, and the Safari icon is missing. In that case, it's possible the browser was accidentally deleted from the App Library — a space where all apps are auto-organized into tidy folders. You can hide an app from the Home Screen when it's being moved to the App Library. When it's also deleted from the Library, the icon can go missing.

But what's more likely is that the restriction features in iOS are hiding Safari from you. Parental controls or Screen Time management can hide Safari from view, according to Apple .

How to bring the missing Safari icon back

Before reconfiguring the restriction features on your iPhone or iPad, try resetting the Home Screen. The Safari icon may be hidden, not the app itself. Here's what Apple  recommends.

• Open Settings.
• Find and tap General.
• Select Transfer or Reset iPhone .
• Select Reset.
• Select Reset Home Screen Layout.
• Select Reset Home Screen.

Resetting the Home Screen sends all app icons back to their original slots.

If you still can't see Safari, Screen Time is hiding the app from you. Screen Time is a feature that limits how much time you're allowed on a particular app. It's protected with a PIN (that's supposed to be different from the password that unlocks your iPhone or iPad). 

You can either disable Screen Time entirely, or just safelist Safari.

• Tap Screen Time.
• Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions.
• Enter your passcode.
• Tap Allowed Apps.
• Enable the switch next to Safari to allow it.

To disable the feature entirely, you can also toggle off the switch next to Content & Privacy Restrictions.

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How to use custom app icons on your iphone and ipad.

Tired of seeing the same default app icons on your iPhone or iPad? Using this trick, you can change them to anything you like!

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How does it work, preparing a replacement icon image, "replace" iphone and ipad app icons with custom designs.

If you're tired of seeing the same old app icons on your iPhone or iPad home screen, you can customize their look by creating new ones and "replacing" them. The trick is possible using Apple's  Shortcuts  app, which allows you to use any image as an icon.

Currently, it's not possible to truly replace an app's icon on an iPhone or iPad. Instead, you can achieve a similar result by using the Shortcuts app. We'll be creating a custom shortcut that opens an app and then using a custom image as its icon on the home screen.

This technique has been possible since the introduction of Shortcuts in iOS 12 , but it became popular following the release of  iOS 14 , which allows you to officially hide home screen icons in your App Library .

iPhone owners running iOS 12 or iOS 13---or iPad owners with iPadOS 12 or 13---can do this same trick and place the original icons they don't want to see in folders to tuck them out of the way .

Before we begin, you'll need to decide which app icon you're replacing, and you'll need to locate or create the image you'd like to replace it with.

The ideal replacement icon will be a perfectly square image of about 512 x 512 pixels in size, although you'll have the opportunity to crop any image to a square shape in the steps ahead. For this example, we've created a simple purple mail icon in an image editor by using a simple envelope outline.

For your custom icon, you can use any image or photo you'd like as long as it's in your device's photo library. Try searching Google for custom icon designs and saving them, or you can draw your own icon and transfer it to your iPhone or iPad using AirDrop .

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First, open the "Shortcuts" app. If you don't see it on your home screen, swipe downward with one finger in the middle of your screen to open Spotlight search . Type "shortcuts" into the search bar that appears and then tap the "Shortcuts" icon.

In the Shortcuts app, if you see the "Shortcuts" overview screen, tap the "My Shortcuts" tab and then select "All Shortcuts."

On the "All Shortcuts" page, tap the "+" button.

Next, you'll see a "New Shortcut" page where you add the steps to the automation, sort of like a computer program. We're going to add a single step that opens an app. Tap the "Add Action" button.

When the actions panel appears, choose the "Scripting" option.

In the "Scripting" panel, select "Open App."

Back on the new shortcut page, locate the box for the "Open App" action. Tap "Choose."

In the "Choose App" panel that appears, select the search bar and type the name of the app you'd like to launch when you tap your custom icon. Then tap the app's name in the results list. You can choose any app on your iPhone or iPad.

Next, tap the three-dot menu button in the top-right corner. On an iPad, these dots are at the very top-center of the screen beside the "New Shortcut" name.

A "Details" panel will appear. First, tap "Shortcut Name" and name the shortcut anything you'd like, so it will be labeled properly in the Shortcuts app. Then tap "Add to Home Screen."

In the panel that pops up, locate the "Home Screen Name and Icon" section. Select the placeholder icon to the left of "New Shortcut."

In the context menu that pops up, select "Choose Photo."

Using the photo selection panel that appears, locate and choose the photo in your library you'd like to use as your new custom app icon. After you select it, you'll have a chance to crop it to fit the square ratio of a standard app icon.

After that, tap the "New Shortcut" name. Enter the label you'd like to use for the icon on your home screen. Ideally, this will be the name of the app icon you're replacing, such as "Safari" or "Mail."

Finally, tap the "Add" button and your shortcut will be added to your home screen.

Once the custom icon is on your home screen, you can move the app icon wherever you like, including the Dock. To run the app, tap the shortcut icon you just created.

If you'd like to hide the original app icon (and you're running iOS 14 or later), enter Jiggle mode by pressing and holding a blank area of your home screen and then move the icon to your App Library .

If you're running iOS 12 or iOS 13, or using an iPad (which does not have an App Library), you can "hide" the original app icon by moving it to a folder that you can place on a different screen.

Related: How to Move iPhone Apps From a Home Screen to the App Library

The only downside of this technique is that when launching an app through your shortcut, you first make a quick detour through the Shortcuts app before the actual app appears. At the moment, this is a necessary drawback, but the behavior may change in a future update. Have fun customizing your device!

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• Each iPhone icon at the top of the screen has its own specific meaning.
• Some symbols relay information about privacy, such as if an app is using your camera or microphone.
• Other symbols can you tell you general information about your phone, like the battery level or connection status.

If you've ever wondered what the iPhone symbols on top of the screen (in the status bar) or in the iPhone Control Center are trying to tell you, then you've come to the right spot. Apple uses iPad and iPhone status icons and symbols to show a lot of information in a very small space. Here are the symbols on an iPhone and their meanings explained.

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Some iPhone icons and symbols are more commonly known, such as the Wi-Fi icon  and Bluetooth icon , but some, like the  Orientation Lock icon, mystify many. Why is there a person icon next to my time on my iPhone? What is Focus status on iPhone? What are the iPhone symbols on top of the screen? Let's learn the meanings of symbols on an iPhone, both in the Control Center and in the status bar. For more tutorials on how to navigate your iPhone and iPad, check out our free Tip of the Day . Now, here's the most common iPhone symbols and meanings.

iPhone Symbols on Top of the Screen

Let’s start with the iPhone symbols at top of the screen, in the status bar. These top of iPhone screen symbols can also be seen within apps, and, depending on the color of the app, they may appear white or black.

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Now you know how to see these icons, but what are the iPhone symbols on top of the screen, and what do they mean? Let's go over the significance of all the symbols on an iPhone you might see.

iPhone Icons Meaning: Colored Bubbles

If you own an iPhone X or later, you may have noticed that sometimes there's a colored bubble behind the time on your Home screen. The bubble can be displayed in four colors: blue, green, red, and purple. This chart will explain what each of those colors means.

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For models running iOS 14 and later, you'll sometimes see a small green or orange dot in the upper-right corner of your display. But what do these symbols on an iPhone mean?

Other iPhone Icons Meaning

Here are other top of iPhone screen symbols that you will see in the Status Bar. Some of these iPhone symbols are on the top left of the screen by the time, while others appear next to the battery when you pull down the Control Center.

You can access the iPhone Control Center by swiping down from the upper right corner of your screen if you have an iPhone without a Home button, like the iPhone 14. If you have an iPhone 8 or earlier, you will need to swipe up from the bottom of your screen. Some of the iPhone Control Center icons will always stay the same, but the icons at the bottom of the Control Center are determined by how you choose to customize your Control Center . You can add or take away Low Power Mode , the Flashlight , the Calculator , Voice Memos , and more.

What Are the Symbols in the Control Center?

Let's cover the meaning of some iPhone control center icons. Here are some charts of the controls in your iPad or iPhone Control Center.

Now you know what some of the iPhone symbols at the top of the screen mean. If you ever come across symbols on an iPhone that you don't recognize, you can come back here to find out its meaning. Next, learn how to organize your iPhone's Home Screen , and check out our guide for understanding what your Apple Watch's icons mean.

• Why does my iPhone say SOS in the top right corner?  If your iPhone cannot connect to your cellular network or a nearby Wi-Fi network, your iPhone may say SOS in the top right corner . This simply means your device can only make emergency calls.
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• What are the icons on top right of iPhone? In the top of your iPhone, you will usually see your cellular network strength (bars). To the right of that, you will either see 4G, LTE, 5G, or a related symbol. If you are connected to Wi-Fi you will see a Wi-Fi symbol instead. Lastly, you'll see your iPhone battery indicator.
• What do the iPhone signal symbols mean? The signal symbols simply indicate whether you are using cellular data or Wi-Fi and how strong the wireless connection is.

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10 Long Press Tips to Reveal Hidden Functions in Safari on iPhone and iPad

On iPhone and iPad , a long press (also known as a press-and-hold) gesture will often initiate a different action in an app that isn't immediately obvious, such as revealing an icon's contextual menu. On recent iPhones, a long press will sometimes also offer haptic feedback in the form of a vibration, which Apple calls Haptic Touch .

Apple has made extensive use of the long press gesture and ‌Haptic Touch‌ in its apps, which means if you don't tend to long press screen elements, you could be unaware of some convenient shortcuts to everyday actions, or you could even be missing out on app functionality altogether.

Note that the default minimum period that a finger must press on the screen for the long gesture to be recognized is half a second. If you're having trouble performing a long press, open the Settings app, go to Accessibility -> Haptic Touch , and try selecting a Fast or Slow touch duration. There's also a handy interactive demo area for you to test each setting.

1. Bookmark Multiple Tabs in One Go

Make sure you have a few tabs open in Safari that you want to reference at a later time. Now, select one of those tabs, and in the main browsing window, long press the Bookmark icon (it looks like an open book).

2. Bulk Copy Links in a Bookmarks Folder

Following on from the last tip, if you long press on a bookmarks folder in Safari, you'll see a Copy Contents option pop up in the contextual menu.

3. Fast Scroll Web Pages

A scroll bar appears on the right-hand side of the Safari window whenever you swipe to navigate a web page.

4. Close All Open Tabs

If the number of active tabs has gotten out of hand in your browser session, long press the Tabs icon in the bottom-right corner (top-right on ‌iPad‌) of the web page view to reveal the Close All Tabs option.

In iOS 13, you‌ can actually get Safari to close tabs on your behalf, based on when you last viewed them. Launch the Settings app and select Safari -> Close Tabs , and you'll find options to make the browser automatically close tabs that have not been viewed After One Day , After One Week , or After One Month .

5. Re-open Recently Closed Tabs

If you've accidentally closed a browser tab in Safari and want to open it back up, open up the Tabs view and long press on the " + " icon to get a look at all of the tabs that you've recently closed.

6. Open All Bookmarks in a Folder in New Tabs

This option appears in the same contextual menu described in tip 2. Long press a bookmarks folder and you'll see an option to Open in New Tabs .

7. Preview a Favorite Site or Hyperlink

If you want to take a peek at what a specific web page hyperlink has to offer before actually visiting the site, long press the link to get a preview of it. Note that you can also perform this action on the Favorites or Frequently Visited sites that appear in the start page of a new tab.

You can revert this functionality on the same long press screen at any time by selecting Tap to show preview .

8. Merge All Safari Windows

This one is exclusively for ‌iPad‌ users running iPadOS. If you have multiple browser windows open in the background, you can tidy things up by merging all of them, including their tabs, into the active browser window.

9. Download a Linked File

Now that now Safari has a Downloads Manager, you can download files directly from hyperlinks. Simply tap and hold a linked file, then select Download Linked File from the contextual menu. You can tap the Downloads Manager icon in the top-right corner of the address bar to check on its progress.

10. Access the Tab Control Panel

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Hello and welcome to Apple Support Communities, Title San. If I understand your post correctly, you are seeing this iPhone icon in place of the alert badge on the Mail app. I'd like to help. This looks like a Handoff icon. See this article for more details:

Use Handoff On one of your devices, open an app that works with Handoff. Apps that work with Handoff include Mail, Maps, Safari, Reminders, Calendar, Contacts, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and numerous third-party apps. Use the app to start a task, such as writing an email or document. If switching to your Mac, click the app's icon in the Dock: If switching to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch: Unlock your device. Open the multitasking screen, as you would when switching between apps . Tap the app banner at the bottom of the screen.

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Note: Keyboard shortcuts in apps may vary depending on the language and keyboard layout you’re using on your Mac. If the shortcuts below don’t work as you expect, look in the app menus in the menu bar to see the correct shortcuts. You can also use the Keyboard Viewer to see your current keyboard layout, known as an input source .

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Meaning of macOS Keyboard and Interface Symbols

By default, Mac desktop shows a top bar containing lots of symbols, dock and desktop icons. Depending upon your settings, Finder and other apps also show some common and specific symbols. For example, do you ever wonder the pie chart icon or cloud icons showing in different variations in Finder? In addition, Mac keyboard also has lot of modifier and special keys and understanding the meaning of them is important to use keyboard shortcuts. Here is the complete list of macOS symbols and keys with meaning to answer all your questions. If you are also using iPhone, check out 100+ iPhone symbols with meaning .

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Below table is the list of symbols and keyboard keys in Mac along with its meaning. The list contains the following type of items:

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Symbols are everywhere in your Mac and understanding the meaning is important to for taking action or understanding what is going on.

Symbols in Keyboard Shortcuts

Here is a Apple Magic Keyboard with number pad. As you can see, there are lot of symbols on the keyboard keys.

All Mac apps show keyboard shortcuts in menu items. These shortcuts contain keyboard key symbols for Command, Control, Option, Shift, etc. You will not get the description of the shortcut keys even you hover over the menu items. For example, “Edit” menu in Mac contains “Paste Special” and “Paste and Match Formatting” with keyboard shortcut showing like below.

Symbols in Finder App

Finder is the most useful app in Mac which contains many symbols. The below Finder app screenshot indicates the symbols in top title bar position, sidebar and next to files/folders.

You have to understand the meaning of macOS symbols to use Apps and menu shortcuts properly.

macOS Symbols with Meaning PDF

Do you like the above list of symbols? Here is a PDF of the macOS symbols with meaning that you can download for offline reference.

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I have a MacBook Air m1 running Monterey. If you enter the Finder menu, there is a section called ‘Locations’ which for me shows my MacBook and my iPhone (steam driven 5s!). Alongside the word ‘iPhone’ is a symbol which I do not understand. It consists of a small black triangle with a short black bar underneath it. Can you please tell me what this means and what happens if I press it? I could not find this symbol on your list.

That’s an eject button to disconnect your iPhone. When you connect iPhone to trusted Mac, you can control iPhone from Mac like backup, check software update, etc. Finder will show the eject button right side of the connected iPhone. If you press the icon, it will disconnect the phone’s control from Mac and only allow charging. You can remove the power cable from iPhone and reconnect to see the eject button again.

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