How to rearrange tabs on iPad without losing them

Yes. I hope that there are technical staff there at Apple who do test all of the features as they are added to each iOS. Sometimes I wonder why certain changes are made. Steve Jobs was really keen on simplicity and user friendliness. That credo seems to have died along with Steve. If devices are so smart...wouldn’t it have been nice if this one, my iPad, could have asked me “are you sure you want to delete all of these opened tabs?” .....before just doing the task because in my frustration I happened to swipe up on an open window...well....I am just complaining at this point. Maybe if enough people send feedback to Apple a change will be made so that losing all opened tabs can’t happen in the future.

Do you happen to know a link to the Apple Feedback page?

Thank you.

Thank you for clarifying and for the recommendations. I still wish I still had the older iOS version that did not open up a new window when swiping too far right or left...And I wish I had known about the upper right hand corner link to the last closed window. If I had, the other day, I might have been able to recover the 60 or so tabs I lost when swiping too far up, down or back and forth. Somehow I deleted the window containing all of the tabs instead of the window with only one.

I am not a cell phone owner, so the more and more like a phone the iPad becomes the more irritated and less patient I become.

Does each iOS update come with a downloadable users guide to explain all of the insidious little changes Apple sneaks in? That would surely be helpful.

So, will Apple be fixing the bug you mention, at the beginning of your comment, anytime soon?

Thanks much.

Hello~ I posted the original issue which was that with the most recent updates of the iPad iOS the navigation of tabs in Safari has become user UNfriendly and bothersome, in my opinion, because depending on how and how long you hold down a tab to try and move it further back or further along the open tabs, it expands into a separate window which gets in the way of actually moving the tab in order to reposition it. It is very cumbersome and sensitive and not at all easy to navigate like it once was several iOS ago. The latest update does nothing to clean up this botched feature. The crisis that occurred for ME was when I had inadvertently opened a new window by trying to move a tab to another position and when I went to the screen showing all of my opened apps I swiped the wrong Safari window and deleted the one with ALL OF MY 60 opened tabs and the one window that remained was the one that had opened unintentionally whenI was trying to move it along the tab bar.

This feature of opening the tab in a new window removes it from the first window so it is no longer amongst your other open tabs so if you delete it you have lost that page completely..

It was SO EASY....I repeat...it was SO EASY to rearrange tabs before this expanding feature at either side of the screen was added. I really don’t know where this discussion has gone to.....but I would like to know where I can leave feedback to APPLE itself to complain about his feature. Thank you.

Thank you Jandersonhill, for ‘getting’ and appreciating the nuisance tab feature and I, like you, really don’t have any other issues or complaints about Safari, either on this iPad or my iMac...and don’t have a desire to use a different browser. It just seems to me that Apple techs can come up with an alternative way to allow one to open a tab in a new and independent window without it interfering with the movement of tabs, to the right or to the left, by eliminating the expansion feature when getting one’s finger ‘too close to the edge’ of the device on either side of the screen.

Ugh....well..I hate split screen anyway and try to never use it. Please use the feedback link and report your findings to Apple. If no one reports these bugs to them they will never be aware of them. I hope they sort this bug out too. Thanks.

Yes. Thank you.

Hi again. I am using v13.1.3.....When will the latest you mentioned show up on my iPad’s auto update?

Thank you very much. It looks like it was scheduled to install later tonight. It should be interesting to see what changes may occur.