How to change safari homepage

[eddieg]

Is there a way to change the homepage in safari? I want to have Google as my homepage instead of the safari screen with the book marks. I have an iPad air on 8.1 thanks.

 

[J. A.]

That's not possible. As soon as you remove all favorites, the Safari homepage will be blank, with just address/search bar and the icons at the top.

 

[eddieg]

Ok thanks that what I thought.

 

[J. A.]

You're welcome.

 

[approveme]

This is not possible, i think we are not change the safari homepage.

 

[Al Walters]

How does one go about removing the sidebar on the Safari page? I've double clicked on the book icon and that didn't work. The sidebar takes up nearly half the page.

 

[J. A.]

Tap the book icon once, then it will disappear.

 

[Al Walters]

Tap the book icon once, then it will disappear.

Thank you. I was clicking on the wrong book icon.

 

[J. A.]

Thank you. I was clicking on the wrong book icon.

I'm glad you found out what was wrong.

Just wondering:
In Safari, there's only one book icon, here:

Where did you click?

 

[Al Walters]

There were 2 on my iPad Air. One of them (the one I kept clicking on) is blue and is on the same line of the Safari sidebar as the eye glasses and one other icon. The other book icon is clear (but outlined in blue), which is the book icon you have referenced.

 

[twerppoet]

You've both probably figured this out by now, but for anyone else who may be confused:

With the sidebar open, there are two book icons. The one that turns the sidebar off is the one at the very top left of the screen. The one that is in the sidebar itself is the bookmarks tab. The glasses are for the reading list, and the @ tab is for links in your Twitter, FaceBook, and other supported social networks.

 

[Al Walters]

Thanks, Twerppoet. I didn't think I was imagining 2 different open book icons. Yes, I was clicking on the "bookmark" tab instead of the icon located above the screen. My bad.

 

[twerppoet]

No problem.