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Safari's Enhanced Share Icon
You'll also discover that sharing web page content and URLs is also easier than ever before. Plus, you have more options when using Safari for iOS 5. The Share icon, which is displayed at the bottom-center of the Safari screen on an iPhone or immediately to the left of the website address field on an iPad, allows you to perform the following tasks:
- Quickly create a bookmark for the website you're viewing. Within Safari, you can maintain a personalized Bookmark list and/or display a Bookmark Bar, just as you can with any other web browser. Using iTunes Sync or iCloud, you can automatically sync your bookmarks with your computer(s) and other iOS devices, so you always have access to the same list of your favorite websites, regardless of which computer or device you're using to surf the web.
- Add the web page to your Reading List. This is another new feature that will be explained shortly.
- Create a Safari Home Screen Shortcut so an icon for that specific webpage gets displayed on your Home Screen. With a single tap, this icon will then launch Safari and open the specific web page it's associated with.
- Email the website URL to someone else from within the Safari app. There's no need to launch the Mail app to compose or send the email.
- Tweet the website URL to your Twitter followers without leaving Safari. Like several other pre-installed iOS 5 apps, Safari for iOS 5 integrates with Twitter, and allows you to send tweets from within Safari.
- Print the web page using iOS 5's AirPrint feature using a compatible wireless printer. Starting at $100, HP offers a selection of laser, inkjet, and photo printers that are capable of wireless printing from your iPhone or iPad.
As you're surfing the web, you can also utilize iOS 5's Select, Select All, Copy, and Paste commands to quickly select and copy text, graphics, and/or photos from a web page to another app, such as Pages.
Or, if you're looking at a photo on a website, hold your finger on it until the Copy and Save Image commands appear. Copy will temporarily store that image within your iOS device's virtual clipboard, so you can paste it into another app, while Save Image allows you to store the image within the Camera Roll Album of the Photos app.
Safari allows you to hold your iOS device in either portrait or landscape mode as you're surfing the web, and will adjust what's being displayed accordingly.