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...
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
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... 😥
Does this mean that if I create a social media profile and I close that profile they are not tracking me on my other profiles? I quit using social media apps because of the tracking for a good while using facebook on the browser they were not tracking me but now they are, it’s usually websites that I have visited in the same browser where I have the facebook tab logged in. I do hope this will work.
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.
This is all well and good but I only use my MacBook Sonoma for one purpose. I tried the additional profile but I can not get the following to change (1) I can not delete the profile I jus added the minus will not remove it (2) The default setting is on the wrong one and want to change this. How do you do this? I am 70 years old and do not need all the functions just want to go back to a single profile and change the default browser profile to the other one and delete the new one.
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.
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 🤷🏼?
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
@@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.
I agree. Rather than profiles for my work, I use profiles for my parents. To save their bank accounts, work uses, other important gov accounts etc, and seeing all my own bookmarks on their profile is tiring. I don't want to see their folders/bookmarks in my profile either. I think Chrome has a better use of Profiles in that when new Profiles are made, so are new Bookmarks. It's genuinely creating a new browser profile for them and while I want to transition to safari, this part of Safari has me on the fence.
@@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.
@@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.
@@kacey_alexandra6311 Safari, Settings, Profiles. Then select the profile on the left. Then select Extensions on the right and see which ones you have enabled for that profile.
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.
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.
I was a bit disappointed because I thought I could have different favorites and settings on different profiles. But the favorites are all the same on all the profiles.
Wow! I didn't even know Safari had added profiles!! I will definitely use them to help me stay organized! Thanks for sharing!
A very useful and informative video tutorial today! Happy Thanksgiving! Thank you, Gary!👏🏻❤️
Excellent tutorial. Very nice clarification of the different uses of Profiles. Many thanks!
Excellent description and explanations. Great to have the background and potential benefits explained. Thanks for sharing.
The dude just saved my day.
This is great! Fabulous timing as I was just about to find out about profiles. Really clear and well explained - thx so much!
Thanks very much, Gary, for this extremely informative video! I really must try using separate profiles.
I would be lost without you, Gary. :o)
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...
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?
I don't think so.
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
Very useful thanks!
EXCELLENT-CONGRATS-THANKS.
Hello Gary, is there a way to keep the same bookmarks across my iPhone and Mac devices?
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
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... 😥
so If I reinstall my mac, would all those data/history of different safari profiles be also reinstalled again ?
Should be stored in your Apple account, yes. But why would you "reinstall my Mac?" There isn't much reason to do that today.
Thank you but it is the default profile I wish to delete and keep the user profile only that I started with on this new computer.
Does this mean that if I create a social media profile and I close that profile they are not tracking me on my other profiles? I quit using social media apps because of the tracking for a good while using facebook on the browser they were not tracking me but now they are, it’s usually websites that I have visited in the same browser where I have the facebook tab logged in. I do hope this will work.
Kinda. One one profile you'd be logged in, but on the other profiles you would not be logged in.
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.
If you like, yes. That's what this feature is for.
That's pretty handy. I sort of hate I don't work anymore. Not really. 😎
Me too. I'm learning all this neat stuff with no real reason to use it!
This is all well and good but I only use my MacBook Sonoma for one purpose. I tried the additional profile but I can not get the following to change (1) I can not delete the profile I jus added the minus will not remove it (2) The default setting is on the wrong one and want to change this. How do you do this? I am 70 years old and do not need all the functions just want to go back to a single profile and change the default browser profile to the other one and delete the new one.
Close all Safari windows. Create a new window with the default profile. Then delete the other profiles.
Are Safari Profiles available on iPadOS?
Yes.
Without shorcuts to swap profiles, it becomes annoying very quickly, which is sad because it is a very good feature.
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.
Just check and recheck those settings. Try toggling them off and on.
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 🤷🏼?
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.
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.
Hey Gary,
How about an overview of Arc?
The Arc browser? I don't use it myself. What do you find about it that makes it more useful than Safari.
I find it more intuitive to use than Safari@@macmost
As soon as I start using a profile, the option to switch profiles does not appear again. Can you tell me why?
Not sure why. Take another look or use the menu bar.
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.
Yes, that is absolutely a good use for this. In fact, I use it for just that.
To make this really useful, Apple needs to create the option for separate private bookmarks for each profile. Currently bookmarks are shared across profiles.
How does that make it more useful?
@@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.
@@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.
@@macmost thank you!
I agree. Rather than profiles for my work, I use profiles for my parents. To save their bank accounts, work uses, other important gov accounts etc, and seeing all my own bookmarks on their profile is tiring. I don't want to see their folders/bookmarks in my profile either.
I think Chrome has a better use of Profiles in that when new Profiles are made, so are new Bookmarks. It's genuinely creating a new browser profile for them and while I want to transition to safari, this part of Safari has me on the fence.
Why does every time i close/quit safari my google log ins automatically log out in the personal profile?
Maybe some plugin or extension? Or maybe you are using private windows or profiles in some way?
@@macmost im using the default personal profile
@@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.
@@macmost i dont have any extensions, i just bought this last week
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?
No. The point of it is to let you know you are using Caps Lock. Why would you want it off?
@@macmost its little bit annoying to me me that the capslock arrow appears right on screen moment after I turn the capslock button on.
@@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..
@@macmost okay Garry thanks for replying my brother. You are always helpful to me.
@@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.
Why I don't see the icon extensions in the bar when I create a new profile?
Did you enable that extension for that profile?
@@macmosthow?
@@kacey_alexandra6311 Safari, Settings, Profiles. Then select the profile on the left. Then select Extensions on the right and see which ones you have enabled for that profile.
Nice theory, but in practice, there are a lot of flaws using safari profiles, like how it manages tabs, or kills tabs unexpectedly.
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.
Try it yourself. That is the last use case Gary demonstrated.
@@peteruzek will do. Have a great day.
My concern is, I want the tabs I opened to stay open when I close that profile window and come back to it later. 😅
Try using Tab Groups. That's what they are for. Pinning tabs may also help you.
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.
I was a bit disappointed because I thought I could have different favorites and settings on different profiles. But the favorites are all the same on all the profiles.
Huh, sounds like Edge.