When you are browsing the Internet, you are likely to find a news article or a product that you think a friend or family member might enjoy.
Perhaps you considered just telling them what it was and where you saw it, but there is another way that you could communicate this information to them in a more specific way.
Our tutorial below will show you how ot send someone a link to a Web page from your iPhone 13 so that they just need to tap on the link to open it in their Web browser.
How to Send Someone a Web Page Link on Your iPhone 13
- Open Safari.
- Go to the Web page to share.
- Tap the box with the arrow on it.
- Choose Messages.
- Enter the name or number at the top of the screen.
- Touch the Send button.
Our guide continues below with additional information about sharing Web pages on an iPhone, including pictures of these steps.
The apps on your iPhone can communicate with one another in a lot of interesting ways.
One of these ways involves the “sharing” aspect that is available in many of them.
While you may have used this in the past ot send someone pictures that you have taken, or shared a note with someone, it also works to let you share Web pages, too.
Our guide below is going to show you how to use the Safari sharing feature on your iPhone to send someone a link to a Web page that you are visiting.
Related Guide: Read this article and find out how to use your device’s autofill feature so that you can save passwords to your iPhone for your various Web accounts.
How to Text Someone a Link to a Website from Your iPhone (Guide with Pictures)
The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 13 in the iOS 16 operating system.
Use these steps to send someone a Web page link from your iPhone 13.
Step 1: Open the Safari app.
Tap the Safari icon to open the Apple Web browser.
Step 2: Go to the page to share.
Navigate to the Web page for which you wish to send someone a link.
Step 3: Tap the Share icon at the bottom of the screen.
Touch the Share button, which looks like a square with an up arrow extending out of it.
Step 4: Choose the Messages option.
Select the green Messages icon from the list of sharing options.
Step 5: Enter the contact name or number in the To field.
Type the name of the contact, or the phone number of the recipient, into the To field at the top of the screen.
Step 6: Tap the Send button.
Add any other information that you want to include in the text message, then tap the blue or green arrow icon to send the message.
Now that you know how to share a Web page on your iPhone, you will be able to send links to people if you find something that they think would be useful or might find entertaining.
More Information on Sharing Web Pages from an iPhone 13
When you opened the Share menu for the Web page, you probably noticed that there was a variety of sharing options there in addition to the messages one.
There are options to:
- Add to Reading List
- Add Bookmark
- Add to Favorites
- Add to Quick Note
- Fidn on Page
- Add to Home Screen
- Markup
- and more
There is even an “Edit Actions” button at the bottom of the menu where you can customize the different options that appear on this menu.
You can also send links to contacts that you communicate with a lot, plus you can send Web page links via email, in social media, or open them in other Web browsers that you might have installed.
Speaking of other Web browsers, there are options for the iPhone, like Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge, that you can use instead of Safari.
If you are using one of those other browsers, you can send Web page links in text messages using similar methods in those browsers as well.
For example, if you are using the Chrome iPhone web browser, you would tap the Share icon in the address bar at the top of the screen, where you will see a sharing option similar to the one found in Safari.
You can also copy a Web page address by tapping in the address field at the top of the Safari page, which will select the URL. Once it’s selected, you can tap and hold on to the address and choose the Copy option. You can then go to the text message, tap and hold in the message field, then select the Paste option.
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