Customise a start page in Safari on Mac
You can put everything from the web that’s most important to you in one convenient place, the start page.
Go to the Safari app on your Mac.
Choose Bookmarks > Show Start Page.
Click Edit in the bottom-right corner of the window.
Select options for your start page.
Use Start Page on All Devices: Select this to use the same start page settings on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and other Mac computers. You must be signed in to the same Apple Account on your Mac and your other Apple devices and have iCloud set up for Safari. You must also turn on two-factor authentication on all your Apple devices. See the Apple Support article Two-factor authentication for Apple Account.
Tab Group Favourites: Show websites you’ve added as favourites to the selected Tab Group.
Favourites: Show websites from the bookmarks folder you’ve chosen in General settings. See Change General settings.
Privacy Report: Show a privacy summary, which you can click for details about who was prevented from tracking you.
Reading List: Show web pages you’ve selected to read later.
Recently Closed Tabs: Show websites from tabs you’ve recently closed in the selected Tab Group.
iCloud Tabs: Show web pages open on your other Apple devices.
You must be signed in to the same Apple Account on your Mac and your other Apple devices and have iCloud set up for Safari.
Suggestions: Show suggested websites found in Messages, Mail and other apps. Choose Frequently Visited, Shared with You, or both.
Frequently Visited: Show websites you’ve visited often or recently.
Shared with You: Show videos, news stories and other links that friends shared with you using the Messages app.
To see items in Shared with You, make sure Safari is selected in the Shared with You pane of Messages settings. You only see items shared with you by people who are in your contacts in the Contacts app.
Background Image: You can choose a provided image, or choose one of your photos (the first option on the left). If the first option shows , click it to choose one of your photos. If the first option shows a previously chosen photo, click to choose a different photo.
You can also drag a photo onto the start page.
Drag start page options into the order you want them to appear.
Click in the Safari window.
You can have the start page appear whenever you open a new window or tab. See Change General settings. You can also see the start page by clicking in the Smart Search field. See View your Favourites.