Safari in iOS 18 introduces a new feature called Highlights, which is designed to enhance your browsing experience by intelligently surfacing key information from webpages. The tool uses machine learning to identify and extract the most relevant details, and present them to you in an easily accessible format.

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Think of Highlights as a kind of smart assistant within Safari, saving you time and effort by eliminating the need to manually search through lengthy web content. Whether you're looking up a restaurant, researching a historical figure, or checking out a new movie, Highlights can often quickly provide the essential information you need.

The feature is particularly useful for various types of content:

  • For businesses and locations, it can display address details, operating hours, and quick access to directions.
  • When browsing pages about people, it might show brief biographical information.
  • For entertainment content, it can offer direct links to play songs or summarize reviews for movies and TV shows.

Highlights aims to streamline your browsing by providing these bite-sized pieces of information right when you need them.

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Here's how to use the new feature in ‌iOS 18‌:

  1. Open Safari and navigate to a supported webpage.
  2. Look for a purple sparkle over the tool icon in the browser bar. This indicates Highlights are available.
  3. Tap the sparkle to open the Highlights window.
  4. Review the summarized information presented in the Highlights window, and interact with the information you need, such as tapping on directions or playback links.

By keeping an eye out for the sparkle icon as you browse, you can take full advantage of this time-saving feature and quickly access the most pertinent information from websites. Note that Highlights is currently only available in the U.S. and only works for English websites.

Top Rated Comments

jz0309 Avatar
22 weeks ago
“Open Safari and navigate to a supported webpage”

How would one know that a webpage is supported???
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
trip1ex Avatar
22 weeks ago
didn't work on this article
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
NightFox Avatar
22 weeks ago
I always feel like these features are designed for the way people use the internet in adverts, and not how and why the internet gets used in real life. Maybe I'm just not using it right though.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
ifxf Avatar
22 weeks ago
I am not enabling this feature since I don’t want to share my browsing with Apple.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
318iphone Avatar
22 weeks ago
Some commenters seem to be confusing "summary" with highlight. This article is about highlights - from apple.com "Safari will automatically detect relevant information on a page and highlight it as you browse. Highlights display helpful information like directions and quick links to learn more about people, music, movies, and TV shows." The example given in the article does work. It "highlights" the location of the hotel. As you can see in the screen capture I just did on 15.1 beta4.

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Aslak3 Avatar
22 weeks ago

Now let’s use AI to extract from AI written webpages. What could go wrong?:)
This is client side, but yep it’s a valid concern! Hopefully there will be standardised tags/markup to signify server side AI content is machine generated. Without that the web will turn into some kind of self referencing nonsense soup, not that it isn’t close to that already.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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