One of my favorite new features of Safari is Distraction Control. Although I usually don’t mind the presence of ads on web pages while browsing, I sometimes want to hide ads or other web page elements when saving a web page to PDF. To do this, click the Page Menu button and then click the “Hide Distracting Items” option as pictured above.
Equally important to know is that Safari remembers the items you’ve asked it to hide, so the next time you visit the same page, those distracting items will remain hidden. Additionally, if other pages on the same web site display the same items in the same way, those items will be hidden too. I learned this the hard way because after hiding distracting items on a certain page, they were hidden site-wide, and I thought that Safari had some kind of browser incompatibility with the web site.
To show hidden items, click the Page Menu button and then click the “Show Hidden Items” option. You can also un-hide distracting items across all web pages. On a Mac, go to Safari > Clear History… and then select the timeframe that you’d like to clear. On an iPhone or iPad, go to Settings > Apps > Safari > Clear History and Website Data and then select the timeframe you’d like to clear.
