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How to disable website suggestions in Safari?

When clicking the address bar to type something, Safari for Mac, version 18.1 (20619.2.8.11.10), using macOS Sequoia 15.1 (24B83), shows a section called “Suggestions” that displays some recently and/or frequently visited web pages. How can I prevent that section from appearing?

I have turned off “Include search engine suggestions” and ”Include Safari Suggestions” but unsurprisingly, considering that these are not search results but some previously visited websites that appear before typing a single character, that does not make a difference:


Presumably, I can clear this list by clearing my browsing history, but I do not want to clear my browsing history. I very much appreciate suggestions from the browsing history when beginning to type URLs. But I do not want a selection of those websites to show up as large icons every time I click the address bar.


This is a real problem when sharing a screen or a Safari window in digital meetings. Not only do websites that I visit privately show up, but more disturbingly, the website of one client (maybe even with the title of a page that is being tested and not yet published) may show up in a meeting with another client. (Only in the event that I click the address bar, of course, but sometimes, situations when that is needed are hard to avoid.) That is not very professional and may even leak confidential information.

Posted on Nov 18, 2024 4:13 AM

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How to disable website suggestions in Safari?

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