How To Use The Safari Developer Tools
August 25, 2025
Browser developer tools are essential for debugging problems with your website. And if you’re facing Safari-specific issues, whether on your Mac or on iOS, you’ll need to use the Safari developer tools.This article provides a detailed guide to how to get started with the Safari Web Inspector and introduces some of its more advanced features.
It’s hard to believe that for the first 15 years or so of their existence, browsers didn’t have any developer tools. Firebug, For the then-new Firefox in 2006 was the first of the tools that we would recognise as modern web developers.
It established the paradigm for all the browser-based developer tools that came after it.
As a developer, you doubtless use these tools at least from time to time. But they are likely far far more capable than even very experienced developers might realise.
Here Matt Zeunert Here is a pretty thorough overview and introduction to Safari’s developer tools, which are very similar to those in Firefox and in Chromium-based browsers as well. Even if you’re experienced with dev tools in browsers, I suspect you’ll learn a thing or two here about features you didn’t know about.
