How to change Safari tabs back to stacked iOS 15

This is exactly why I don’t update my devices until they practically won’t work until I do. I hate the icons. I takes forever to scroll back to where I was when a link opens a new window, it’s not helpful to have them all shift if I delete one…

Apple! People (thousands, which represent a magnitude more) have been complaining for 4+ months now. At least GIVE US AN OPTION of tiles or stacks. Soooo not an improvement. I guess I’ll use my computer more now…

Please provide adequate feedback to Apple itself; not passers-by.

To add here, amounts to near Zero results; in a user-to-user forum.

• Product Feedback - Apple | main link

//www.apple.com/feedback/

• Feedback - Safari - Apple [Use to report Both: iOS and macOS]

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

(Too late to 'un-follow' emailed discussions; or not read/see most of

these. Long ago, I learned to see only most recent ~& escape lightly.)

I agree I HATE this new imposed tab view, it’s time consuming & annoying. I tried the settings suggested below & It won’t change back to the old way. .

This doesn't work, how do I switch back to the stacked tab view. The ‘new’ view is awful, it’s not user friendly, unhelpful for the visually impaired & time consuming

I should have clarified that you have to be in one of the webpages for the landscape view to shift to stacked tabs.

Duck Duck Go browser & search engine has an efficient, easy to use tab presentation

Unfortunately no.

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!

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.