How to move Chrome bookmarks to Safari (Mac and iPhone)

Updated 18 October 2026

On a Mac, open Safari and choose File > Import From Browser > Google Chrome. Safari brings your bookmarks, history and passwords across in one go, as long as Chrome is installed on the same Mac.

Import directly on a Mac

1. Open Safari.
2. Choose File > Import From Browser > Google Chrome. In Safari 17 and earlier, the menu is File > Import From > Google Chrome.
3. Select the items you want and click Import.

If Chrome was your default browser, Safari may have done this already: the first time you open it, a message at the bottom of the start page asks whether to keep the imported items, remove them or decide later. Bookmarks > Show Start Page brings that page back. Apple says imported bookmarks appear after your existing bookmarks, and imported passwords go into your iCloud Keychain.

Import a file

Use this when Chrome is on another computer, such as a Windows PC.

1. In Chrome, export your bookmarks: Bookmark Manager > three-dot menu > Export bookmarks (full steps). Copy the file to the Mac.
2. In Safari 18 or later, choose File > Import Browsing Data from File or Folder, click Choose File or Folder, pick the file and click Import. In Safari 17, use File > Import From > Bookmarks HTML File.

Find them and tidy up

Choose Bookmarks > Edit Bookmarks, or click Bookmarks in the sidebar, and scroll to the end of the list. Safari’s Favorites bar shows whatever is in the Favorites folder, so drag the bookmarks you open every day into Favorites. Safari’s start page can show the same Favorites, which makes it a decent stand-in for Chrome’s bookmarks bar.

On iPhone or iPad

Chrome on iPhone has no export, so the bookmarks have to come from a computer:

• With a Mac: import on the Mac. If Safari is turned on in iCloud settings, your bookmarks stay the same on all your devices, so they reach Safari on the iPhone too.
• Without a Mac: export from Chrome on a Windows PC and save the HTML file to iCloud Drive (or email it to yourself). On the iPhone, open Settings > Apps > Safari, tap Import below History and Website Data, choose the file and tap Import to Safari.

Keeping Chrome and Safari in step

On a Windows PC, Apple’s iCloud for Windows can do it: turn on Bookmarks in the app and click Install Extension next to each browser you use, and bookmarks you add on the PC stay up to date with your Apple devices. On a Mac there’s no built-in sync between the two browsers, so import again when you need to catch up, then clear out the duplicates.

What doesn’t move

Chrome’s reading list and saved tab groups aren’t bookmarks, so they stay behind. To keep a group, open it and press Cmd+Shift+D in Chrome, which bookmarks every tab in the window into one folder that Safari then imports. If you organized bookmarks with Stackboard in Chrome, its spaces are ordinary bookmarks under Other bookmarks › Stackboard, so they arrive in Safari as folders you can drag into Favorites.

Common problems

• Imported bookmarks not showing: they’re at the end of the list in Edit Bookmarks, and nothing goes onto the Favorites bar until you move it into Favorites.
• Duplicates: Apple lets you import again at any time, even after an earlier import, which can leave you with two copies. To keep a clean set, run the Chrome export through our duplicate bookmark finder and import that file once.
• Copies on every Apple device: with iCloud for Safari on, the import and any cleanup reach your iPhone and iPad as well.