is there a safe adobe flash player approved by apple?

There is one and only one source for Flash.

https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=ISMRZ

Click here or here and download it.

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I don't think that you can put "safe" and "adobe flash player" in the same sentence. 🙂 Adobe is constantly releasing updates to address security issues.

As Duane suggests, there simply is no such thing as safe Adobe Flash. Not only is it a festering sore of security, but it also a resource hog, and the vector for the most aggressive advertising on the web.

I would highly recommend NOT having Flash installed at all if Safari is your primary browser. You can have Google Chrome installed in addition to Safari and use it when you find a website that absolutely needs Flash (Chrome includes Flash and automatically updates). If Chrome is your primary browser then I recommend disabling Flash in settings or at a minimum enabling the "let me choose when to run plugin content" setting under plugins.

I have not had Flash installed in any of my browsers for years and haven't missed it one bit. Any website that still requires Flash should simply be abandoned in favor of one that is modern and accessible.