How to Turn-off Pri­vate Brows­ing in Safari on Mac – Guide

Safari’s private tab can be 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 is a new app that was released alongside iOS 12. It allows users to keep track of their activity across all their devices, as well as restrict what content they can view on the web. The adult content restriction, in particular, blocks all NSFW content and disables Safari’s private browsing tabs.

  1. Open Safari and sign in with your Mac’s login information.
  2. Click on the three lines in the top left corner of the main screen and select " Preferences."
  3. In the " Privacy" section, click on the three lines in the bottom left corner of the screen and select " Adult content restriction."
  4. Click on " OK."
  5. In Safari, you will now see a new tab called " Screen time." This is where you will define how much screen time you want to have each day. You can choose to have as much or as little screen time as you want each day, but remember that if you choose to have more screen time than allowed by your adult content restriction, Safari will block all other activities on your Mac while it is working on displaying your chosen amount of screen time.

Step 2: In the System Preferences window, click on Keyboard. Step 3: In the Keyboard preferences window, click on Language and Region. Step 4: In the Language and Region preferences window, click on United States. Step 5: Click on the General button. Step 6: In the General preferences window, click on Keyboard layout. Step 7: Click on American Standard keyboard layout.

Step 3: Click the option labeled Sleep. Step 4: Click the option labeled screen time. Step 5: Click the option labeled sleep.

To activate Screen Time for your Mac:

  1. Click Options in the lower left corner of the Screen Time panel.
  2. Click on the Call option in the upper right corner of the screen. ..

The Connect button will open a new window that will allow you to connect with your social media accounts. You can choose to connect with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram.

In the Screen Time panel, you can limit adult sites in the Web content section.

Safari now disables private browsing by default. 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 not work. ..

If you want to enable private browsing in Safari on your Mac, you can go back to the Screen time panel, and 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 the Options button in the lower left corner of the screen’s Time panel. Then just uncheck the box next to Share On all devices.

To prevent others from changing your screen time settings, you can define a screen time password through this screen. 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

If you are a guest user on macOS Catalina, then you will not be able to access private browsing in Safari. To workaround this, 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.

The guest user’s account data is deleted each time they leave, 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, use the drop-down menu below your profile photo to select the family member’s screen time.

To restrict how much time your family member spends on their iPad or iPhone, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Settings app on your iPad or iPhone.
  2. Under “General,” tap “Screen Time.”
  3. Under “Time Limits,” set a limit for how much time your family member can spend using the iPad or iPhone each day.
  4. Under “Restrictions,” set restrictions on which apps and websites your family member can use.
  5. Tap “Apply.” ..

Final note

If you’re using Safari on your Mac, you can disable private browsing in the Preferences pane. Here’s how:

  1. Open Safari and click on the three lines in the top left corner of the window (the one with a gear wheel).
  2. Choose “Preferences” from the list that appears.
  3. Scroll down to the “Browsing” section and click on the “Disable private browsing” button.
  4. Safari will close and reopen with its original settings.