iPad safari rearranges tabs on its own

Same thing happens with mi iPhone 8. I have IOS 13.3.1. I’ve noticed it happening more with the recent tabs I open. I have tabs that are about a year or older and those have not changed order, but tabs I’ve been opening or working on in the last few days do change. I constantly need to do a ton of research on different topics and loosing track of tabs (aka sources I can’t remember later) is frustrating. This needs to be fixed now!

Yeah, I'm not surprised. I recently update my iPadOS to 13.3.1 and so far it is more of a nuisance than helpful. I recently lost all of my tabs in safari when I was moving the tabs back after they rearranged it.

For some odd reason i dont recall this happening before the software upgrade . Almost positive its a virus ive sent feedback but this problem persists and im loading it bc i have to rearrange my tabs every time i open my phone. How hard is it to remember the order? This is so aggravating

This has been happening on a daily basis with every update of iPadOS since developer beta 0. With the number of postings concerning this issue I cannot believe Apple is not even discussing it, let alone addressing it.

If only there were other browser options (don’t even suggest Firefox — that’s something from back in the 8 bit graphic days of computing when used in the iPadOS environment, in my opinion).

Wake Up Apple — The toast is burning.

ldto wrote:

Your suggestion only works on computers. It will not work on iPhone or iPad, where there is only one window.

You clearly need to re-read both this thread - and the User Guide concerning Multi Tasking and App Spaces, plus Split and Slide Over views.

Same thing has been happening to me. And I don’t even have as many tabs as most other people who have experienced this - many of them say they have over 100 tabs, but I have about 25 and it’s always the bottom half that keep getting shuffled. I’ll have 8 tabs open for the website that I read books from, and it’ll shove other tabs between each of those 8. And this is on an iPhone 7

Yeah I can’t believe it’s nearly a year and they still haven’t fixed this. It’s infuriating on my year old iPad, and not helped by how janky the tab-sorting functionality has gotten, random refusal to scroll while dragging a tab, constantly trying to open in a new window and don’t you dare make the mistake of closing your main window before that unwanted child one or you will LOSE all those tabs forever.

fix it please, Apple.

What’s your iPads name and is it an extension of you or your phone the order that you synce and reference things make a difference your phone iPhone and you should be on the same page remember it has its way and you have yours in understanding that work as a team to both minimize time and key strokes if it is displaying those trained open your mind to the possibility that it to has an Opion. People like you are imperative in the advancement of society as recognizing your system for what it is. If you can’t understand that I will put it in plain English.... But first I would like to here your opinion on why the tabs have been reorganized or ......?

Not fix it, but get rid of it.

I too have the safari OCD needing them to be in order! Hope they can fix soon!

mate it’s not ocd to organize ur tasks - this bug is fml🤬

Still happening now. It mostly happens with my private tabs but does happen during normal browsing. It’s frustrating because I have so many tabs open

I have same problem on my xs max. This is really annoying.

NOOO not firefox!! Its the worst of all!!