Find out how to always allow downloads in Safari on Mac from sites you trust, so you don’t have to deal with popups asking for your permission every time you want to save something from these websites.
If you download a lot of items from the web using Safari on your Mac, then you might get tired of the pop-up asking if it’s okay every time. This is especially aggravating if you download from the same sites often.
For situations like this where you actually trust the site you’re downloading from, you can eliminate that pop-up message asking for your permission.
Always allow downloads from specific sites
1) Open Safari on your Mac and click Safari > Settings or Preferences from the top menu bar.
2) Select the Websites tab from the top.
3) On the left, choose Downloads.
To the right, you’ll see Currently Open Websites at the top and then a list of Configured Websites. Each site has a drop-down box where you can pick Ask, Deny, or Allow.
For the sites you want to always allow downloads from, choose Allow.
Always allow downloads from all sites
While this isn’t an option most people would choose because you never know what a downloaded file can contain, we’ll still show you how to allow downloads from all websites.
Follow the same steps as above to open Websites > Downloads in the Safari Settings.
At the bottom, next to When visiting other websites, pick Allow in the drop-down box.
This means that if a website isn’t in the list above it, downloads will always be allowed and you won’t have to give permission in the pop-up.
You need to be careful downloading anything from any website. So just make sure that saving those few seconds of clicking to give permission are worth it before you allow all downloads.
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