Safari is getting a new feature that can monitor webpages for changes and notify users when something important happens. Apple introduced the tool, called Notify Me, as part of its latest software updates announced at WWDC.
Users can ask Safari to watch a specific webpage and receive an alert when information on that page changes. The feature can track product availability, pricing updates, and other changes that would normally require repeated visits.
It is a relatively small addition compared to some of Apple’s larger announcements, but it addresses a common habit: repeatedly checking the same page for an update.
Why This Changes More Than You Think
Think about how many browser tabs you have open right now purely because you are waiting on something. Most people handle this either by forgetting entirely or by checking manually until they give up.
Third-party services like Visualping have been solving this problem for years, but they require signup, setup, and enough technical patience to actually use them. Safari just absorbed all of that friction and made it a built-in behavior.
There is a real caveat worth knowing. Screenshots from the feature show a default schedule of once daily at 10 a.m., which sounds underwhelming if you are trying to snag something that sells out in four minutes.
Whether Apple offers more frequent check intervals remains to be seen, but daily monitoring still covers a huge range of legitimate use cases where timing is less critical.
The Weirder Stuff Coming to Safari
Notify Me is honestly the sleeper feature of Safari’s WWDC 2026 reveal. The flashier announcements involve Siri generating custom browser extensions on demand from plain-language descriptions, which sounds almost too ambitious to be real.
Open tabs also get AI-driven organization, grouping themselves into topic clusters without you touching a thing.
One geographic footnote: all the Siri-powered capabilities announced at WWDC 2026 will be unavailable in both the EU and China when the beta lands later this year. That is a meaningful chunk of the global user base sitting this one out, at least initially.
But strip away the AI layers and Notify Me still holds up as a feature ordinary people will actually use without needing to understand any of it.
