- You should enable JavaScript on your iPad so that websites you access function properly.
- If JavaScript is not enabled in your browsers, some websites won't function or will function poorly, and features like animations and videos won't work, so it is important that you know how to turn it on.
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Most websites are programmed using JavaScript, which is essential for more advanced or complex operations and functions.
JavaScript can also be used to program, and there are a lot of resources for learning to use JavaScript for amateur programmers up to high-end web developers.
If JavaScript is not enabled in a browser, your iPad will inhibit functionality on some sites and prevent you from even accessing others.
That can also limit your ability to access certain features of websites. Some programs and applications from the web, which use JavaScript as well, will also have trouble working.
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1. Tap the "Settings" app.
2. Scroll down until you see "Safari," or any other web browser that you'd like to enable JavaScript in.
3. Tap on the "Safari" icon.
4. Scroll down and tap "Advanced," at the very bottom.
5. JavaScript should be one of the few items you see. Tap on the "JavaScript" toggle so that it turns green.
JavaScript is enabled on your iPad when the toggle turns green. Ryan Ariano/Business Insider6. JavaScript is now enabled in Safari.
7. If you have other browsers you use, you will have to go back, select those in "Settings" and repeat the process for them as well.
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This guide will step you through the process of getting JavaScript enabled in Safari on an iPhone or iPad.
Open the "Settings" App
The controls to reset Safari aren't actually inside Safari! They're in the Settings app.
Go to your iPhone's Home Screen and tap the Settings app.
Scroll down to the "Safari" menu item and tap it
Scroll the screen down until you see Safari, and then tap on it.
Tapping on the Safari menu item will open up the settings screen for Safari.
Tap the "Advanced" menu item
After you tap the Safari option, you'll then see a big list of settings relating to the Safari app. Scroll down to find the Advanced item - which will be right at the bottom of the list.
Tapping this will display advanced settings for Safari.
Change the setting to enable JavaScript
On the Advanced settings for Safari screen, you'll see a few options. Near the middle is the option for enabling or disabling JavaScript for Safari on your iPhone or iPad. To enable JavaScript, slide the switch to the right.
JavaScript is now enabled
Congratulations, you just enabled JavaScript. Tap here to confirm that JavaScript is now enabled.