Safari Sidebar on ipad ios 15

Hello Bruce409,

Thanks for that info and for choosing the Apple Support Communities. If we understand correctly, you are having an issue with the Safari app on your iPad. You should be able to tap the Sidebar icon in the upper left corner to collapse the sidebar and here is more info:

Use tabs in Safari on iPad

If you are still having an issue, please force close the Safari app and restart your iPad, and here are some more steps to try:

If an app on your iPhone or iPad stops responding, closes unexpectedly, or won’t open

Cheers!

There are many changes within iPadOS15 - and significant changes to Safari and its management of Bookmarks is only one of the major changes. 

You are not the first to make the observation concerning the major shortcomings of the iPadOS15 Safari Sidebar - and certainly won’t be the last. Here is just one of the many discussions about this topic:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253208195?answerId=256003346022

The Sidebar is now closed with the Sidebar button at top-left of the screen:

Note: For this button to be visible, if Bookmarks/Reading List/History is displayed in the sidebar, you must first tap the “Back” and “Safari” buttons that appear in this location.

The iPad User Guide is a rich source of frequently overlooked information. Having updated to iPadOS15, this resource may be worthwhile to review in order to better understand many of the changes that have occurred with transition from iPadOS14 to iPadOS15. The Guide is available both online using a web browser (such as Safari), or as an Apple Books download:

iPad User Guide - Apple Support

https://books.apple.com/book/id1567104892

There are many changes within iPadOS15 - and significant changes to Safari and its management of Bookmarks is but only one. You are not the first to make the observation concerning the introduced shortcomings of the iPadOS15 Safari Sidebar - and certainly won’t be the last.

Apple do invite constructive feedback, comments and feature requests via their product feedback pages. For iPad and iPadOS:

Feedback - iPad - Apple

You are encouraged to make use of this facility in expressing any views concerning issues, bugs, or functionality changes of which you are unhappy.