Despite the fact that the iPhone cannot be imagined without the Internet, because most of its functions are tied to access to the Internet, we all sometimes find ourselves in a situation where the phone simply does not catch. For example, on a trip out of town or on an airplane flight. Naturally, there is no question of even GSM-communication at 10 thousand meters above the ground. And I want to read my favorite AppleInsider.ru regardless of location – I know this from myself. Fortunately, the iPhone allows you to save a webpage in Safari for offline reading. The main thing is to take care of this in advance.
How to open a website without the Internet
Safari (and many other browsers too) has a function for loading sites into the device’s memory . Thanks to it, you can open the web page you want, even if there is no free Wi-Fi or cell towers nearby. And since they are saved as PDFs, they don’t open in a browser. Therefore, there is no risk that you accidentally open an online version of the site, not saved for offline viewing. In general, all for the sake of the user.
- Launch Safari and open the desired web page;
- At the top left, press “aA” and turn on the reading mode;
- Select “Share” and click “Add markup”;
- Without changing anything, click “Finish” and then “Save As”;
By default, anything you save this way is loaded into the Downloads folder in the Files app. However, you can change the save location by choosing any other folder on the device itself, or by uploading the web page to the cloud. But I recommend not choosing the last method. After all, connecting to the cloud requires the internet, and that’s what you save a web page as PDF to read offline.
Safari – Offline Reading List
The second way is to turn on the autosave feature for offline viewing of all webpages that you put on your Reading List. It is not at all more complicated, but it may seem inconvenient to someone that all sites are saved on the device in general, which are added to a special list for later review. So choose whichever is more convenient for you and use the first or second method. But we cannot but cite it.
- Go to “Preferences” and select Safari;
- In the window that opens, scroll to the very bottom;
- Find the option “Autosave offline”;
- Activate it by sliding the toggle switch to the “on” position.
Frankly speaking, sites saved for offline viewing do not take up much space. Therefore, it will probably be even more convenient to keep them in this way in the future. Another thing is that if you regularly add certain web pages to your reading list , in the end there may even be too many of them. In this case, it is recommended to make it a rule to regularly clean up this list so as not to overflow it and not get confused in its contents yourself.
How to take a screenshot of an entire page on an iPhone
But there is also a third. It, like the first one, allows you to save a web page as a PDF file so that you can access it even without an Internet connection, but it consists in just taking a long screenshot of the site. This will not take away almost any opportunity for you. Unless, by default, the screen will open in a greatly reduced form, so you will have to constantly zoom in and scroll to see its contents.
- Launch Safari and open the site you want;
- Take a screenshot by pressing the power and volume up keys;
Unlike Android smartphones, iPhones by default take a screenshot of the entire page . It does not allow you to select a specific part of the site and capture only it. Therefore, if you want the screen to be shorter, you will have to crop it manually. The screenshot editor has a dedicated tool for this purpose. Just click on it and set those documents sizes (after all, this is a PDF-file, remember?) To the extent that you need.
