How do I remove icons from Safari welcome page in iOS 7?

I have a box with an arrow, pointing up. I click on it and it gives me a choice...Bookmarks, Add To Reading List, etc. I click on Bookmarks and i get an "Add Bookmark" box with "Cancel" on one side and "Save" on the other. At the bottom of the box is "Location" and "Favorites >". When i click on Favorites I get another box that says "Choose a Folder" with Favorites and Bookmarks. Choosing either of these takes me directly back to the previous box. There is no choice to edit anything anywhere.

In Safari, tap on the littlte blue icon that looks like a butterfly in the top right corner. Your bookmarks will appear, at the bottom is a blue block of text that says "edit". Tap on that and edit.

I've been there. Hope this makes sense......I found it by tapping to use the keyboard and found a blue "private" above the left hand side of the key board...the strip at the top of the page turned from white to black...and...then....I could go into the favourites/edit/ remove stuff that others have said. Hope it helps.....that's how I did it anyway!

You should be able to edit your bookmarks without hitting the "private" text. Speaking of text, why is that not a button? I don't get it, and it's starting to bug me that this support site is better designed and easier to understand than iOS 7.

Got to agree with you ref the awful appearance of IOS 7. Presentation of IOS 6 much clearer . Is terrible now.

Seems all apple geeks at apple care about what they want to do instead of taking note of the end users who are not all IT Tecchies. Seriously thinking of changing to Samsung/Galaxy now! Fed up of all these quirks each and every time they alter the IOS versions. Am NOT happy at all!!

I didn't say the appearance of iOS 7 is awful. And it doesn't really matter in the context of this discussion. My main gripe with iOS 7 is that it's design is more like a book than a user interface. Maybe even a pretty book, but that's a matter of taste. As a user interface it doesn't really seem to work, a lot of things don't make any sense and it's hard to explain to users who get lost in all the typography and tiny symbols.

Anyone know how to change the favorite icons images? I've been fav my own website links and they all have the same stupid safari logo.

Tap on the Bookmark icon to the right of the URL box .A drop down menu will appear. If the drop menu is titled "Bookmarks" tap the Favorites command and then tap the Edit command on the bottom right of the menu box.

However, if you tap the Bookmark icon and the title of the drop down menu is "< Bookmark (in blue) History", tap the blue arrow to the left of the word Bookmark. Then tap on Favorites and subsecuently tap on the word "Edit in the lower right hand corner. You will now be able to tap on the red badge and delete the favorite URL

Thx tri21 quick &amp; easy just like its suppose to b :) solved my prob immediately!! Ur awesome.... Keesh

I pressed the blue " private" and the bar at the top turned black, how do I turn it back to the original colour, or do I need to and what was the " private" function that I pressed?

Thanks to tri21 for such a simple (yet not intuitive) way to remove unwanted Safari welcome screen icons. Goodbye Disney! Goodbye Yahoo!

-T

I have searched for hours for a solution to this problem and have read numerous texts which appear to give the answer, only to find the instructions are incomplete or impossible to follow. I followed your instructions and within seconds had cleared these annoying icons from my phone. Well done and thank you very much

Just wanted to say thank you for taking the time to add images on Flickr. I was frustrated and having a hard time until I viewed your screen shots. That was very, very kind of you!