How do you turn off frequently visited sites in safari for iOS8

I too dislike this new "feature" and wish Apple would give people a direct option to disable it. I dislike it for two reasons...

1. It doesn't give me control over what is book marked and what's not. I could potentially visit one website 6 or 7 times and never visit it again. But because i

visted it 6 or 7 times for a specific reason, suddenly my Safari thinks I want that website saved in "Frequently Visited"... No, I don't think so. 😟

2. I've actually noticed that some websites are saved in Frequently Visited after visiting only once... I'm starting to think that some websites have figured out how to trick this feature into saving their website to Frequently Visited after only one visit! This is NOT acceptable in my book!!

Please Apple!! Give us the option to disable this feature!!!

das7282 wrote:

Please Apple!! Give us the option to disable this feature!!!

Apple is not here on this forum, only moderators to keep things going according to the Terms of Use for this forum.

Apple has set up a spot called FEEDBACK where you can put in requests like this ...

Product Feedback

https://www.apple.com/feedback/

I Did that too, but within 30 mins, another Frequently visited site icon appeared. I have tried to drag it off to no avail. It will not go away.

It is a nasty feature. I often show my friends photos on my ipad, or we look up topics of interest on internet, and I don't appreciate my private search history (though not risque in the least) being highlighted For anyone to see. That said, I do not want to turn off all of the other helpful features, so going totally private isn't helpful.

This new feature is such an invasion of privacy, and i am reminded of it everytime I search.

Is no one at Safari paying any attention to all of the user complaints on this?

Safari -> Preferences -> Search -> uncheck 'show favorites'

as told by

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/154491/how-to-disable-frequently-visite d-items-and-favorites-under-the-address-bar-in-s

They are talking about IOS 8. Not Safari 8.😉

This doesn't get rid of it from happening, but it works for me: on my iPad, I held the icons under 'Frequently Visited' just like you do an app you want to delete. Sure enough, the option to delete each one popped up. I deleted it, and held the next one! and so on. They don't show up for another few days, but I just delete them as they appear.

Here's how to do it. When it shows up, you'll see Favorites on top, and "Frequently visited" underneath it. In the top right corner, you'll see a star and then a square with 12 small dots....click on the square with the dots. This then shows "top sites," and lets you click on the X to remove the ones you don't want to see.

Go into safari preferences, under search tab, just unclick show favorites.

That worked for me.