How to follow recipes on Apple HomeView without touching the screen

Apple HomeView can make cooking from an online recipe easier by removing the need to keep scrolling through a long webpage. Its built-in Safari app offers a dedicated cooking mode that turns supported recipes into instructions you can follow at the kitchen counter.

Start cooking from a recipe in Safari

Open Safari on HomeView and navigate to a recipe webpage. When the recipe is recognized, tap the Start Cooking button. HomeView switches to a streamlined view of the ingredients and steps, instead of leaving you to work through the entire webpage. Apple describes the feature on its HomeView product page.

Follow the steps on the display as you prepare your meal. Apple says cooking mode also helps keep track of ingredients, while Siri can handle timers hands-free. You can ask Siri to start a timer for something in the oven and keep an eye on it through Live Activities while moving to another HomeView app.

Can you start on iPhone instead?

Yes. Apple’s Handoff feature supports moving a recipe from iPhone to HomeView, so you can find something to cook earlier in the day and continue at the kitchen counter. Recipe detection may vary between websites, and Apple does not say that every page can be converted. For a broader look at the device, see our complete Apple HomeView guide and our guide to overlooked HomeView features.

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Tom Sykes