I have a Safari Mac "Facebook" (named) tab group. I close one tab in the tab group, go to my main tab group, return to the Facebook tab group and the closed tab is open again. How do I stop that from reopening?
iMac 24″, macOS 12.0
Hello, Bruce Kieffer. Thank you for using the Apple Support Communities to request help with Safari for macOS. We understand the situation and how you are noticing that a previously closed Safari tab will appear again automatically. We know that being able to manage your open tab and tab groups in Safari is a useful feature and we’re happy to help research what may be causing this.
There are several Apple Support articles that we’d like to provide you with to start. These articles explain how to use the tabs group features in Safari, and how to fully close open tabs:
Group tabs in Safari on Mac - Apple Support
Close tabs in Safari on Mac - Apple Support
If you have already been using these steps to manage your open tabs, we can help you more. To continue, it would be good to find out if this same behavior occurs while your Mac is started in safe mode. Safe mode can help isolate out the software that could be causing the tab to remain open. You can find instructions for safe mode in this next article:
Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support
If you continue to notice the same problem in safe mode, it may be best to clear your Safari browsing history and website data before arranging your tabs and tab groups again. Please note that this step would permanently remove your history and other website data from Safari. You can use these instructions to clear this Safari data:
Clear your browsing history in Safari on Mac - Apple Support
We hope that these troubleshooting steps allow you to get back to using Safari as you would like. Please let us know if we can help you further with this.
Cheers!
Thanks. I deleted one tab using Safari on my phone, and for some reason that forced safari on all of my devices to start managing the tabs in tab groups correctly. I will do more testing.
Thank you for replying back, Bruce Kieffer. We understand that the previous troubleshooting steps did not resolve the issue for you.
To continue from here, can you tell us if you use any other devices with the same Apple ID account as your Mac? If so, do you notice that you are able to manage your tabs as expected in Safari on any other devices?
If you continue to notice this issue, we would suggest that you contact Apple Support directly for more help. Depending on your location, you may be able to contact Apple Support using the following link:
Please reply back here if you have any other questions about how to proceed from here.
Have a great day!
Thank you for keeping us updated on your situation, Bruce Kieffer.
From what you are describing, this does not appear to be the expected behavior to see when managing Safari tabs across multiple devices.
To continue from here, were would suggest that you contact Apple Support directly for more help. Depending on your location, you may be able to contact Apple Support using the following link:
Please let us know if we can help answer any other questions.
Thank you for your understanding!
This is still a problem. If I close a tab in a tab group in Safari on my Mac, switch tab groups, return to the tab group where I closed the tab, and the closed tab is opened again. It does not happen all the time and there's no consistency why it happened or why it works.
I tried all of that. It still happens.
Safari tab group closed tab keeps coming back?
