How to create multiple Safari profiles on iPhone

You can create multiple Safari profiles, like Personal, Work, and School, and use them to separate your internet browsing into different themes. Each profile has separate favorites, histories, tabs, and Tab Groups. You can add, edit, or remove a profile at any time.

Profiles also follow you: any iPhone, iPad, or Mac signed in to the same Apple Account shows them in its Safari settings. You can also choose a bookmarks folder for each profile’s favorites.

Create a profile

If you’re signed in to the same Apple Account on any iPhone, iPad, or Mac, the profiles you create on iPhone also appear there in Safari settings.

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
2. Tap Apps, then tap Safari.
3. Tap New Profile and tap Name.
4. Enter a name for this profile, then choose an icon and color.
5. Below Settings, tap Favorites to choose a bookmarks folder.

   If you have multiple folders of bookmarks, this option selects the folder of bookmarked websites that are recommended as you enter an address, search, or create a new tab. For example, if you have a folder of bookmarks related to work, you can create a work profile and use this field to ensure that those websites are suggested as you type in the address field.

6. Tap Open New Tabs and choose the page you want new tabs to open to.
7. Tap the Done button.

Use profiles in Safari

With a profile, you can easily browse the internet or move between profiles.

1. Open the Safari app on your iPhone.
2. Tap the Tabs button and tap the More button.
3. Tap Profile. Select the profile you want to use.

Note: You’ll find your saved bookmarks and passwords in iCloud keychain in any profile.

Edit a profile

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
2. Tap Apps, then tap Safari.
3. Tap the profile you want to edit.

Choose which extensions to use with a profile

To customize the way your browser works on iPhone, you can install extensions.

If you’ve installed extensions on your iPhone, you can customize which ones you’d like to use with each profile.

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
2. Tap Apps, then tap Safari.
3. Tap Extensions and tap an extension.
4. Turn on the profiles you want to use with this extension (below Allow Extension In).

Remove a profile

Deleting a profile, which you can do at any time, also erases the favorites, history, and Tab Groups associated with it and closes all websites open in the profile.

Important: This action can’t be undone.

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
2. Tap Apps, then tap Safari.
3. Tap a profile.
4. Tap Delete Profile, then tap Delete to confirm.