Improving Webpage Readability in Safari on iOS

I don’t know how I’ve managed to miss this trick up to now, but I’m pretty sure it’s going to change my life. If you read web pages on an iOS device, it may change yours too.

If you’re looking at a webpage in the Safari browser on iOS and you see a little Reader Icon icon to the left of the URL field, you can click the icon to strip out all extraneous information on the page leaving only the text (automatically bumped up to a more readable size) and the images associated with the main page story. See the example below.

Webpage With All the Trimmings
Webpage With All the Trimmings

Stripped Back Webpage
Stripped Back Webpage

Note: You can achieve the same results on a MacOS device by clicking the Reader button to the right of the URL field.

Author: smurphy

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