How to Pin a Website in Safari

OS X El Capitan introduced several Safari improvements, including the ability to pin your favorite websites. This puts the site’s icon in the top left section of the tab bar, allowing you to pull it up with just a click. Websites you pin in Safari are live; the page refreshes continuously in the background. Site pinning only works on the tab bar. Follow these steps to make it visible and pin a website to it:

How to Remove Pinned Web Sites From Safari

Here’s how to remove a pinned website from the tab bar.

Beyond the Basics of Pinned Web Sites

Pinned tabs are a part of Safari and not the current window. When you open additional Safari windows, each one has the same group of pinned sites ready for you to access. Pins are very useful if you visit many websites with content that continually changes. Useful applications for pinned tabs include web-based mail services and social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.