How to Turn On Private Browsing in Safari on iPhone

Apple iPhone users enjoy a great internet experience with the Safari app, which Apple developed itself and offers free of charge on its devices. How do you turn on Private Browsing mode in Safari on iPhone? How do you turn on incognito mode in Safari? How do you use incognito mode in Safari on iPhone? In this article, we've shown you how to turn Private Browsing mode on and off in the Safari web browser on Apple iPhone devices. Here are the details…

How to Use Incognito Mode in Safari on iPhone

Along with a fast and secure browsing experience, Apple offers its users a range of useful and functional features in the Safari app. Even though many of these features found in Apple's Safari app are also available in plenty of other web browsers developed and released today, when it comes to ease of use and accessibility, Apple's Safari app is a step ahead.

In other words, how easy it is to use and access many of Safari's features gives users a big advantage. Apple's Safari app packs in plenty of features. And as the iOS operating system on Apple's iPhones keeps improving over time, the app continues to gain new features as well.

Especially after the release of iOS 15, the latest version of iOS at the time, the Safari app on iPhones changed quite a bit and picked up new features. The latest additions offered in the Safari app included things like changing the position of the address bar and changing the background image. We showed you what these new features were and how to use them in an earlier article. In this article, we'll cover another feature found in Apple's Safari app. The feature we're talking about is the use of Private Browsing mode in Safari — in other words, incognito mode.

Apple lets iPhone users browse in incognito mode in the Safari app. Users can switch the app into Private Browsing mode in just a few steps. Thanks to this feature, users gain the ability to browse the internet privately. In other words, the browsing users do on the internet is never recorded on their device, and this content can't be viewed later by them or by anyone else.

We've explained how to use this feature, which many users turn to from time to time. You can learn how to use this feature in the Safari app on iPhone devices by following the steps below, and browse the internet in Private Browsing mode whenever you like. Now let's take a look together at how to turn on Private Browsing mode in the Safari app on iPhone…

How to Turn Private Browsing Mode On and Off in Safari on iPhone (2023)

You can turn on Private Browsing mode in the Safari app on iPhone conveniently, with just a few taps. In the same way, you can exit Private Browsing mode with just a few taps as well. To turn on incognito mode in Safari on iPhone;

• First, open the Safari app on your iPhone.
• To turn on Private Browsing mode in the Safari app, tap the "Switch between tabs" icon in the bottom-right corner of the app.
• Then tap the "Down arrow" icon right next to the "Start Page" text at the bottom-center of the screen.
• The "Tab Groups" window will then appear. From the options shown, tap the "Private" option.
• After these steps, Private Browsing mode will be active. To browse using incognito mode, all you need to do after switching to Private Browsing mode is open a new window by tapping "Done" in the bottom-right corner, or the "(+)" icon in the bottom-left corner.

It's that simple.

NOTE: You can turn off Private Browsing mode by following the same steps again.