On the iPad 6 howto stop the bookmark icon from automatically opening with new safari tab?
iPad, iOS 12
Click the blue bookmarks icon on the top left. That will allow you to hide and show the sidebar.
I don’t believe that fixes my issue, maybe I wasn’t clear with my question. I know how to open and close the bookmarks. What’s happening is every time a new safari web page is opened the books open automatically. I need to know how to stop the bookmarks from automatically opening. I’m using a iPad 6th generation.
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I beleive you a refering to a deliberate feature of Safari, whereby it will automatically open the favorites/history panel. You should be able to disable this feature as follows.
Tap the “+” icon at top-right of your Safari screen; a new tab will open. If the new tab opens with the favorites/history panel open, then the “book” icon at top-left will be highlighted in blue.
To disable this feature, from the just-opened new tab (which will be showing a page of icons corresponding to saved web pages, tap the “book” icon to remove the blue highlight - then close the tab. Next time that you tap the “+” icon to open a new tab, the favorites/history sidebar will not appear.
To reverse this action, such that the favorites/history panel does appear upon opening a new tab, simply touch the “book” icon from the new tab (the icon will again be highlighted in blue) - and close the new tab.
I hope this explanation will help you to resolve your problem.
how to stop bookmarks from automatically opening with new safari tab
