4 Ways To Delete Safari Reading List on iPhone, iPad and Mac

Safari’s Reading List lets you quickly and easily save those web pages on any Apple device as Reading list entries for viewing later. It’s a brilliant feature for storing recipes, blog posts, download links, reviews, or news updates as Safari data.

Anything that you would possibly discover online. However, does not have time to read them right away, so you may want to delete Safari Reading list. 

However, as with many things, your Reading List might get out of hand. If you do not manage your Reading List, it can get heaped up and turn out to be disorganized, packed with articles you’ve already gone through, or no longer have any need or interest in reading.

Please read below to discover ways to automatically manage your Reading List and Safari sync it through all of your Apple gadgets with your Apple ID or iCloud account.

Down Below are the steps to clear and delete Safari Reading List on your specific iOS device:

1. Steps to Remove Items from the Safari Reading List in iOS
2. Steps to Clear the Safari’s Reading List on iPhone
3. Steps to Remove Items from the Safari Reading For iPad
4. Steps to Remove Items from the Safari Reading List for Mac
5. Steps to completely clear Safari’s Reading List on Mac

1. Steps to Remove Items from the Safari Reading List in iOS

For iPhone, the steps are given below:

1. Guide yourself to the Safari app.

2. Now click on the Safari Bookmarks option at the bottom of the interface, which has the open book icon.

3. Once the bookmarks icon tab opens, you will notice all the three tabs at the top of the window: The Bookmarks tab (open book icon), The Reading List tab (Spectacles icon), and The History tab (clock icon). Look at the screenshot below to understand better:

4. Tap on the Reading List(with the spectacles icon) tab in the middle.

5. Now, you may go through all the web pages and choose the one you wish to remove

6. You may swipe left on the tab to remove the web page, and a red delete button will appear. 

7. Click the red delete button, and your web page will be removed.

2. Steps to Clear the Safari entire Reading List on iPhone

1. Guide yourself to the Safari app

2. Now click on the Bookmarks option at the bottom of the interface of the start page, which has the open book icon.

3. Tap on the Reading List(with the spectacles icon) tab in the middle.

4. Now, click on the Edit option at the bottom right corner of the iPhone screen.

5. By doing so, a blank circle will appear on the left of all the web pages on your reading list.

6. Now, you may tap on the circles of those web pages you want to remove.

7. Once you have ticked the circles, now you may tap the delete button at the bottom left corner of the screen.

8. Click on the Done option at the bottom right corner of the screen to finish off.

3. Steps to Remove Items from the Safari Reading For iPad

1. Guide yourself to the Safari app on your iPad

2. At the top left corner of the top menu bar on the Safari window, you will notice a square icon that looks like a notepad or a window. Click on that icon.

3. An extra tab will appear on the left side of your Safari window.

4. You will notice many options, one being the show Reading List sidebar with the spectacles icon.

5. Click on that option, and the Reading List tab will open

6. You may swipe left on the tab to remove the web page, and a red delete button will appear. 

7. Click the red delete button, and your web page will be removed.

4. Steps to Remove Items from the Safari Reading List for MacOS

1. Guide yourself to the Safari app on your Mac and open the home screen of Safari.

2. Tap on the Sidebar icon in the Safari taskbar.

3. When the sidebar opens, you may click on the Reading List option (with the spectacles icon) at the top of the sidebar, or you may use the shortcut keys cmd+shift+L.

4. Using a trackpad, you may swipe left on the web pages you want to remove using two fingers.

5. Alternatively, you may also right-click ( Ctrl-click) on those web pages and then select the Remove Item option from the drop-down menu that appears on the screen.

5. Steps to completely clear Safari Reading List on MacOS

1. Guide yourself to the Safari app on your Mac

2. Tap on the Sidebar icon in the Safari taskbar.

3. When the sidebar opens, you may click on the Reading List option (with the spectacles icon) at the top of the sidebar, or you may use the shortcut keys cmd+shift+L.

4. Now, you may right-click (Ctrl-click) on any item in your Reading List.

5. A drop-down menu will appear. Click on the “Clear All Items” option from that menu.

6. A prompt dialogue window will appear asking to confirm.

7. Click on the Clear option to confirm the action.

Wrapping Up

The internet is packed with various exciting and interesting web pages to read, even though we hardly ever have time to do so right away. This amazing iOS feature helps maintain a record and store all the web pages in a backup.

You can even save the linked page to read them offline (with no internet connection) by selecting the save offline option. Also, delete the offline reading list cache stored as website data as it occupies unnecessary storage space.

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