How to Turn-off Private Browsing in Safari on Mac – Guide
The private tab in Safari is useful for temporarily logging into another social account, preventing web crawlers from making your profile or browsing the web privately. But if you sometimes hand your Mac over to someone else, especially children, it’s important to know what they’re doing on the web. And even preventing them from visiting sites that they don’t want you to discover. For such situations, disabling Safari’s private browsing is a great solution. This ensures that the websites they visit are displayed in your browsing history.
Use screen time to disable private browsing in Safari
Screen Time made a debut on the iPhone and iPad alongside iOS 12. Not only does it provide the ability to keep track of activity across all of your iOS devices, but it also contains a good deal of web content restrictions. The adult content restriction, in particular, not only blocks all NSFW content, but also disables Safari’s private browsing tabs. And with macOS Catalina, you get screen time with a similar set of features for your Mac too. The following steps will show you how to to define up Screen time and enable adult content restriction to disable private browsing in Safari. And that’s it. Private browsing in Safari is now disabled. You can no longer open private browsing windows in Safari – the New Private Window option in Safari’s File menu will appear grayed out and the related Shift + Cmd + N keyboard shortcut will also not work. If you want to re-enable private browsing in Safari on your Mac, go back to the Screen time panel, click Content and privacy, then click Unrestricted access.
Other screen time devices and passwords
If you have other macOS or iOS devices linked to your Apple ID, your restrictions will also apply to them by default. If you want to prevent this from happening, click on Options button in the lower left corner of the screen’s Time panel. Then just uncheck the box next to Share On all devices. You can also define up a screen time password through this screen, which will help prevent others from changing your screen time settings. To do this, check the box next to Use screen time password. If you already have a screen time password for your iPhone or iPad, you can use it – as long as you have the Share Checked box between devices.
Disable Safari private browsing in guest mode
By default, macOS Catalina imposes adult content filters when logged in as a guest user. This means that private browsing in Safari is already disabled. But if that is not the case, then here is what you should do. Start by clicking on the Users and Groups option in System Preferences. On the Users and Groups screen that shows up, click on the padlock icon in the bottom left corner of the screen and select Guest User. Finally, check the box next to Limit adult sites. This should disable private browsing windows when using Safari as a guest. However, all of the guest user’s account data is deleted each time a user leaves, which goes beyond the purpose of having private browsing disabled in the first place. But imposing limits on NSFW content is still an important positive.
Remote screen time management
Screen Time for macOS Catalina also allows you to disable private browsing on Safari remotely, which increases convenience when managing a Mac that belongs to a family member. To do this, you must add the person using the Share with family option, listed in the System Preferences panel. Then, go to the Screen Time panel, use the drop-down menu below your profile photo, and then switch to the family member’s profile. Make the necessary changes (all screen time controls remain the same) and you’re done. Keep in mind that Safari restrictions will also apply to any iOS or iPadOS devices that belong to the family member.
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