- Check For Safari Updates
- How To Update Safari Browser On Mac Laptop
- How To Update Safari Browser On Macbook Air
Delete history, cache and cookies
Here's how to clear information from your device:
Oct 13, 2020 To update Safari browser on your Mac, follow these steps: Click the Apple menu icon and select System Preferences. On System Preferences window, select Software Update. Now your Mac will find all available updates for your system. How to upgrade update Safari Browser on Mac iMac MacBook - YouTube.
- To clear your history and cookies, go to Settings > Safari, and tap Clear History and Website Data. Clearing your history, cookies and browsing data from Safari won't change your AutoFill information.
- To clear your cookies and keep your history, go to Settings > Safari > Advanced > Website Data, then tap Remove All Website Data.
- To visit sites without leaving a history, turn private browsing on or off.
When there's no history or website data to clear, the setting turns grey. The setting might also be grey if you have web content restrictions set up under Content & Privacy Restrictions in Screen Time.
Block cookies
A cookie is a piece of data that a site puts on your device, so it can remember you when you visit again. To choose whether Safari blocks cookies, tap Settings > Safari, then turn on Block All Cookies.
If you block cookies, some web pages might not work. Here are some examples:
- You might not be able to sign in to a site using your correct username and password.
- You might see a message that cookies are required or that your browser's cookies are off.
- Some features on a site might not work.
Use content blockers
Content blockers are third-party apps and extensions that let Safari block cookies, images, resources, pop-ups and other content.
Here's how to get a content blocker:
- Download a content blocking app from the App Store.
- Tap Settings > Safari > Content Blockers, then set up the extensions that you want. You can use more than one content blocker.
If you need help, contact the app developer.
New updates are being added at the bottom of this story……
Original story (published on December 5, 2020) follows:
Apple’s Safari browser appears to have broken the files upload functionality for macOS Mohave users after the 14.0.1 version update. And a result, plenty of users have taken to various forums complaining about the issue.
Some of such reports have been given below.
My attach a file button doesn’t work with Safari. How do I notify google? AppleCare couldn’t help.
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Suddenly, dropbox.com isn’t allowing me to upload a file if I’m using Safari as my browser. It works fine using Chrome. Any ideas what’s going on?
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As apparent from the above complaints, the dialog that allows users to pick a file does nothing on Safari. Also, this is only being faced by users on macOS Mohave soon after the Safari 14.0.1 update.
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There are no reports to indicate that the issue is present on other macOS versions, and hence, it does seem to be due to compatibility issues between the browser and the now aged operating system.
Moreover, the problem isn’t just limited to a single site as initially thought, as users have reported that they face the issue on all kinds of sites.
Switching over to another browser like Chrome or Firefox does make the bug disappear, which reiterates that it is indeed from Safari’s side.
How To Update Safari Browser On Mac Laptop
If you are one of the users facing this issue, then you have come to the right place as we got a series of workarounds for you to try.
Workarounds for when you are unable to upload files to Safari on Mohave
1. Drag files: A couple of users reported that they were able to upload their files to the sites by dragging files onto the browser window/attachment pane. Most sites support this functionality, and so you are good to give this a go.
2. Use another browser: This is probably the best way to work around the problem till Apple actually acknowledges the bug. The issue exists on Safari alone and hence, changing the browser temporarily will surely help.
To download Firefox, click here.
For Opera, click here.
And for Chrome, click here.
To download Firefox, click here.
For Opera, click here.
And for Chrome, click here.
3. Restore macOS Mohave: While many users have actually performed this to success, it is not advisable as this method is quite cumbersome.
Confirmed: re-installing Mojave’s last version (10.14.6) puts you back to Safari 12.1.2. I can’t think of any mind blowing updates to Safari in 13 or 14 so I didn’t bother updating the browser – someone care to refresh my memory on what I might be missing out on? Everything that I noticed was broken before with Safari 14.0.1 was now functioning again with JUST the restore of Mojave
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Since it is not possible to rollback to a previous version of Safari, the only way to do so is by performing a re-install of macOS. This will revert your Safari to an older version that did not have any issues as such.
How To Update Safari Browser On Macbook Air
Follow the steps mentioned in this official Apple support article here to perform a restore.
4. Update macOS: Since the bug is only present on macOS Mohave, you can try updating to macOS Catalina or Big Sur to make it disappear, if possible. To do so, click Apple menu > System Preferences > Software Update.
Hopefully, the above temporary fixes helped. You can also try sending feedback to Apple regarding this bug through this link.
Quite disappointingly, the latest version of Safari, namely version 14.0.2, has not addressed the issue as per more recent complaints.
There is a new Securitiy Update 007 out plus Safari 14.0.2 update. Neither solves this issue.
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14.0.2 did not fix the problem.. still cannot use the upload button.. this is ridiculous!!! come on apple get with the program!!
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For reference, the previous version 14.0.1 was released on November 12, while the latest one was rolled out on December 14.
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