How To Delete Bookmarks On the Home Screen of iPhone

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Bookmarks are a great way to quickly access the websites and pages you visit most often. They save you time by allowing you to quickly jump to the pages you need without having to type in a long URL or search for them in your browser history. But if your bookmarks become cluttered and unmanageable, it can be difficult to find what you’re looking for.

Today, we’ll show you how to delete bookmarks on the home screen of your device so that you can keep your list of favorites organized and easy to navigate. We’ll also give some tips on how to best use bookmarks and organize them for maximum efficiency.

To delete bookmarks from the home screen of your device, start by opening up the browser app (Google Chrome, Safari, etc.) and tapping on the “Bookmark” icon. This will open up a list of all your saved bookmarks. Tap on one of the bookmarks and then tap on the “Delete” button in the upper-right corner of the page. This will remove that bookmark from your list. You can also select multiple items at once by tapping on each one while holding down the “Shift” key or by tapping and dragging across them with one finger. Once selected, tap on “Delete” again to remove all selected items at once.

How To Delete Bookmarks On the Home Screen of iPhone 1

Deleting a Bookmark from the Home Screen

Deleting bookmarks from your Home Screen is a straightforward process that requires just a few steps.
First, open your device’s app drawer and select the Chrome browser. Once Chrome has loaded, tap the menu icon in the top right corner. From there, select Bookmarks and you will be presented with all of your bookmarks. To delete one, simply tap on the menu icon to the right of the bookmark you want to delete and then select Delete. The bookmark will now be removed from your Home Screen.

Removing a Website Shortcut from an iPhone Home Screen

To remove a website shortcut from your iPhone Home Screen, open the Shortcuts app and tap Edit. Select the website shortcut you wish to delete, then tap Delete. When prompted, tap Delete Shortcut to confirm the removal of the shortcut from your Home Screen.

Deleting Multiple Bookmarks on a Home Screen

To delete multiple bookmarks from your home screen, follow these steps:
1. Open the Chrome browser and click on the three dots in the top-right corner of the window to open the menu.
2. Click “Bookmarks” and then select “Bookmark Manager.”
3. On the left side of the Bookmark Manager window, find and click on the folder that contains the bookmarks you want to delete.
4. Once you’ve opened up the folder containing your bookmarks, press Ctrl+A (Windows) or Command+A (Mac) to select all of them at once.
5. With all of your bookmarks selected, click “Delete” in the top-right corner of the page to remove them instantly from your Home Screen.

Deleting Bookmarks from an iPhone Home Screen

To delete a bookmark from your iPhone home screen, open Safari and tap the Bookmarks icon located in the lower-right corner. Tap the Edit button, then tap the Minus icon located to the left of the bookmark name you want to delete. Tap Delete on the right side to confirm, then tap Done when you’re finished.

Deleting a Bookmark from an iPhone Home Screen

If you want to delete a bookmark that you added to your iPhone Home Screen, the process is quite simple. First, press and hold on to the icon of the bookmark that you wish to delete. A small menu should appear with an option that reads “Delete Bookmark”. Tap this option and the bookmark will be removed from your Home Screen. Alternatively, you can go into the edit mode of your Home Screen by tapping and holding an empty space until all of your app icons start to jiggle. Then, simply tap on the ‘-’ sign at the corner of the bookmark icon that you want to delete and it will be removed immediately. That’s all there is to it!

Removing Shortcuts from Home Screen without Deleting Them

You can remove shortcuts from your home screen without deleting them by navigating to the Desktop Icon Settings. To do this, open the Control Panel, then select Appearance and Personalization. Scroll down on the tab and click on the option that says “Desktop icon settings”. This action takes you to a list of the main standard Windows shortcuts with checkboxes on their side. Uncheck any of these options to remove the corresponding shortcut from your home screen while keeping it intact in other areas of your computer.

Deleting Bookmarks Without Right-Clicking

To delete bookmarks without right-clicking, you can open a new Chrome tab and select the three dots in the upper right-hand corner. Scroll your cursor to ‘Bookmarks’ and click on the ‘Bookmark Manager’ from the dropdown menu. With the Bookmark Manager open, you can hit ‘CTRL + A’ to select all of your bookmarks and press ‘Delete’ to remove them all at once. If you only want to delete one bookmark, you can click on it once to highlight it and then press ‘Delete’.

Do Home Screen Bookmarks Use Storage Space?

Bookmarks on your Home Screen do take up a small amount of storage, but it’s nothing to worry about. The amount of space used for each bookmark is very minimal – only around 100 bytes – so the total amount of storage used by all bookmarks on your Home Screen will be negligible.

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James Walker has a deep passion for technology and is our in-house enthusiastic editor. He graduated from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and loves to test the latest gadgets and play with older software (something we’re still trying to figure out about himself). Hailing from Iowa, United States, James loves cats and is an avid hiker in his free time.