Beacon support
Adding feeds, reading models, folders, OPML and keeping a library healthy. About Beacon
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Getting started with Beacon
Follow your first sites, choose how you like to read, and bring the sites and people you choose into one reader.
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Following sites and people
Paste a site or feed address and let Beacon look for RSS, Atom or JSON Feed. It follows Mastodon and Bluesky accounts too.
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Timeline or Classic — choosing a reading mode
Beacon can remember your place in a continuous timeline, or work as a classic unread inbox. How to choose, what each one does, and what happens when you switch.
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Browse in Beacon on Mac
Open an article’s links in Beacon’s own browser, with ads and trackers blocked, and follow or save a site without leaving.
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The Newspaper
The last day of your feeds, set as a front page with a lead story, sections and In Brief. How editions work, what Stop press means, and how to read back issues.
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The reading view
Full-text extraction, with control over font, size, line spacing and reading width, and Listen to hear an article read aloud.
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Folders, pins, Smart Folders, Saved and muting
Group feeds the way you think, save a search as a folder that stays current, keep what you want to come back to, and quiet what you don’t.
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Save to Beacon from Safari and other apps
Save a page or link to Beacon from the Share sheet on iPhone, iPad and Mac, without opening Beacon.
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Import and export OPML
Bring your subscriptions across from Reeder, NetNewsWire or any other reader, and take them with you again whenever you want.
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Refresh, feed health and tidying up
How often Beacon checks for new articles, how it flags feeds that have broken or gone quiet, and how old items clear themselves.
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Siri and Shortcuts
Beacon’s actions for Siri and the Shortcuts app: refreshing, finding, opening, changing read or saved state, and asking about an article you are reading.
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On-device intelligence
Beacon can summarise an article and answer questions about it using Apple Intelligence on your device and, if you turn it on, hand a whole article to Siri.
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