How to change Safari tabs back to stacked iOS 15

Again:

..Ask again! ~ Through the only direct channel available..

Give Apple your ideas, via 'Product Feedback' portal links:

• Product Feedback - Apple | main link

//www.apple.com/feedback/

• Feedback - Safari - Apple [..To report Both: iOS iPad+iPhone & macOS..]

//www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html

Please change back to stacked tabs. Nobody likes this page layout. Listen to your users!

I also want to weigh in. The new format is terrible! Apple, CHANGE it back!

Same here. Please Apple, bring back at least the option to choose the awesome and fast stacked view which is much more efficient on small screens. My phones were perfect until i recently updated :-(

Well said. Woke up this morning after my overnight update and found the same un-tab feature on my Safari layout.

Guess I'll visit my local Apple store and vent to someone there, as there does not seem to be any fix out as yet.

Me too - how do I uninstall the update? I will change my phone away from an

iPhone when I find a phone where this tab view doesn’t exist.. it’s really awful. An Illogical change that ruins using the internet search function on a phone.

Same here, this answer is not the fix related to the question. I’m sure it was posted trying to be helpfull. The new “open tab layout” sucks, looks like google chrome! Get back to the old design please. I’m also surprised google chrome is still the only browser that is able to translate websites from japanese, mandarin etc. …to any language. Apple better use their time more wisely!

Totally agree with all comments here. Did they not run this change on a test group first? Yowza, it’s just pure visual mayhem!

The commenter who compared it to taking everything out of a filing cabinet and spreading it all out on the floor permanently…bang-on. Just not efficient.

Exactly described. We now have to look at each “page” separately instead of just the “headline”.

How in the world did anyone ever think that was going to be a more efficient way to layout tabs?

Or why at least didn’t someone realize that as a minimum both alternatives would be useful to deal with the different ways that different people manage information.

Good grief. How can you guys (Apple) miss this so badly? Who in charge is so stubborn not to listen and consider all views.

it’s just sad. Really really sad …

And BTW. I’m now exploring Google and Bing as alternatives to Safari since it no longer has any advantage to those apps. Hadn’t even downloaded them until today after my phone update. Yup. A real win win 🙄

I have the Google App, but I think you'll find Apple has messed that up in the same way - and anyway, it is just Safari inside in order to be allowed on Apple devices... so no escape from this very annoying change. But do let us know if it works for you!

Excellent assessment - a staggeringly bad redesign which seriously hampers the tab accessibility. Any UX design engineer worth the money will immediately identify the multiple accessibility and usability issues here which makes the change itself appear gratuitous in the extreme. For starters, the text is the primary indicator of content not the image and both are now much smaller; the visual/spatial movement required is massively increased to flip through tabs which reduces efficiency especially if your vision is less acute; the text is underneath the thumbnail (seriously who thought that was clever?). The list goes on. Monumentally poor quality control at the UX design level for this which is such a key usability feature it has me reassessing Edge, Chrome and Firefox to replace Safari on the iPhone. Pay attention - give the option to revert and also assess how this retrograde UI change made it through the delivery process.

Just want to agree that the thumbnail version of displaying open tabs is not functional. In addition to the web addresses being incomplete and how it slows down one’s ability to skim open tabs, for those of us with less than perfect vision, this display format is VERY cumbersome. I can’t imagine what it might be like for those who are actually visually impaired. There should be options for how to display open tabs so that they meet the needs of users.

Can’t figure out why Apple thought this was an improvement—even if, as it appears, other web browsers are doing it too. Smartphones should be time-saving devices — it makes no sense to have to SPEND time re-learning how to use something you already own, when the whole point was the automaticity. I feel like I came home and someone rearranged the nobs on my toaster, so that now I can’t use it without rearranging the plants in my aquarium.

I, too, went to the Apple Store to vent—effectively wasting their time as well, although the associates there were very patient and kind. I am warning friends about this update and recommending not getting it until this feature is fixed.

Agreed, this new layout is awful. If apple make updates to visuals and interfaces they should provide a way of being able to make a preference to original layouts. This is definitely a step backwards (same as removing the fingerprint is /home bottom….but that’s another angry topic of mine!) I am unable to find a way of viewing the old tab style despite following the “how to” you can Google.

I hope the developers read, take note and rectify, I am sure the vast percentage of users if asked prefer the original view……………… would love a response from Apple.

I totally agree with JMurchie. I cannot understand why Apple would replace the "stacked" design with the tile format. The stacked design was so much easier to browse. The tiles format creates so many more pages to scroll through. Please change it back!