Apple today unveiled a series of upgrades to Safari powered by Apple Intelligence, including automatic tab organization, AI-generated custom extensions, and new privacy-focused browsing tools.
The flagship feature is Automatic Tab Organizing, which uses ‌Apple Intelligence‌ to group a user’s open tabs into relevant topics without any manual intervention. If someone is planning a weekend trip, for example, Safari can consolidate all of their travel-related tabs into a single topic. As navigation continues, Safari inserts new tabs into existing topics or creates new ones as needed.
Apple is also introducing a way for users to create custom Safari extensions using natural language. The company described the feature as “describe an extension,” allowing users to specify what they want in plain English and allowing Safari to generate an extension that adapts web pages accordingly. Apple’s example was to add a button to the toolbar that saves and rates recipes from cooking sites.
A new “Notify Me” feature lets users tell Safari to monitor changes to a specific web page and alert them when something important happens, like a product restock or a price drop. Users tell Safari in natural language what they’re looking for, and Safari sends a notification when it detects a matching change on that page.
Apple provides a background agent password update tool to the browser. Working alongside the Passwords app, ‌Apple Intelligence‌ can automatically navigate to eligible websites, log in and update weak or compromised passwords to strong passwords with a single click.
Apple claims that all of these features are designed with privacy in mind, and no personal browsing data is exposed to Apple or anyone else in the process.
