Hide distractions when reading articles in Safari on Mac

You can use Safari Reader to view a web page article in one page, formatted for easy reading and presented without navigation or other distractions. You can adjust the background colour, font and font size. A table of contents and summary are shown for longer articles.

A Reader window showing a summary of a scientific article.

Open Safari for me

View an article using Reader

  1. Go to the Safari app on your Mac.

  2. Go to a web page.

  3. Click the Page menu button in the Smart Search field, then click Show Reader.

    The button appears only if the web page has an article that Reader can show.

  4. To stop using Reader, click the Reader button in the Smart Search field, then click Hide Reader (or press Esc).

You can use Apple Intelligence* to summarise a web page. See Use Apple Intelligence in Safari.

Change how your web pages look in Reader

  1. Go to the Safari app on your Mac.

  2. While viewing an article in Reader view, click the Reader button that appears at the left end of the Smart Search field.

  3. Do any of the following to adjust the settings:

    • Choose a background theme.

    • Choose a font.

    • Choose a zoom level.

    Reader always shows you the last background theme, font and size you chose.

*Apple Intelligence is available in beta with support for the following languages: English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese. Some features may not be available in all languages or regions. For more information on language and feature availability and system requirements, see the Apple Support article How to get Apple Intelligence.
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