How to change Safari tabs back to stacked iOS 15

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!

I've owned an iphone all the way through the years/models from the 3g to the one i have now..

This iOS 15 is the worst downgrade they have ever made to the mobile side of apple devices. I hate the stupid big web page box stacks, the old safari rolling tabs were superb!

Come on Apple, sort this out....

I totally agree with everyone here. Put the tabs back to the way they were in safari before the 15.2 update. Couple that with the fact I cannot pair car play with my car anymore because of IOS 15.2 and I’m considering taking back all 4 iphone 13 pro Max’s back to T-Mobile and getting 4 new Samsung phones. Apples engineers are losing it.

I have a degree in Cog Sci, specializing in Human Computer Interaction, and I agree that the new style is terrible design. It has taken all of the pertinent information, abridged it, made it smaller, and arranged it in a way that is difficult to decipher.

So:

• It's not as easy to see (because it's smaller).
• There's less of it it to see (because each title is further abridged).
• It's harder for your brain to isolate a specific title (because they are all the same size and on the same plane, whereas the old way provided a single title as the focal point, slightly larger than the others and easily scrollable).

There you go Apple, that was a free consultation...now please fix this.

I hate it and it’s been ruining my week. I feel unorganized and I want to throw my phone at the wall. I also hate that my “favorites” and reading list are in oldest to newest order, making it a disaster to retrieve any new relevant information I want to access.

I hate having to look up how to change things because I’m a.d.d and I just want it to work hahahaa

I just tried landscape and my open tabs still appear as tiles instead of a stack. So user unfriendly. The stack allowed for quick review of open tabs. Please allow the option to switch back. I only updated a few hours ago and immediately came searching for a solution. Sadly, none to be found.

In response to Claylala

Turning the phone sideways to landscape position does not give me the stacked view of web pages. All it does is make the tiles smaller so more appear on the page. It’s a bit better but not as efficient and easy as the stacked view.

I forgot to mention that I cannot pair CarPlay anymore. Whereas my old iPhone 11 Pro Max paired & synced flawlessly with my 2010 VW Jetta. Now it asks for a code displayed on my cars radio. My cars radio is not setup for this. What idiot engineer decided to not only screw up Safari with the tiled vs tabbed webpages, but screw up the functionality of CarPlay. Apple? These phones are GONE this week in exchange for Samsung units. That’s $4800 worth of phones I’m giving back. Buh bye Apple.

I do a lot of research at home using Apple devices and STACKED Tabs of website views are critical for finding research studies with complex titles. The spread out display was also fairly convenient WHEN THEY WERE ALL TOGETHER & I could SEE ALL of them.

I’m disgusted & furious w/ what I see as Apple’s arrogance, taking MY website tabs and randomly dumping them into their STUPID USELESS ‘TAB GROUPS’ on my iPad & MAC. I wasted hours of precious time trying to make ‘tab groups’ work for me. The next phone & laptop & desktop will NOT be Apple.

it says “70 tabs”, as if it is indirectly complaining, unable to manage all the tabs that I have opened.

also, it scrolls to top on restart, so I have to scroll down 70 tabs to reach the most recent and resume work.

This is bad design by Apple.

I just downloaded the new ios update today hoping that they will listen to the many people who wants the stacked open tabs view and bring it back again but nope, still the tile google copycat one. It's so frustrating. If there is a way to change it to the stacked view, please let me know.

I have a fort of dyslexia that has to do with saccadic dysfunction of the eye. The new tab display is extremely difficult for my eye to scan. The stacked form was easier to scroll through as well. This is terrible please make it an option to revert. This is why I don’t use chrome app.

Thanks for the advice, but unfortunately, it did not fix the issue. This new update made the safari design utterly atrocious and a larger issue to navigate compared to the old one. If apple updates with an option to switch between both styles that would be most helpful

I HATE the new grid tabs, I wish I never updated. it’s hard for me to see as I’m visually impaired. I might have to get a different phone. The new iOS is too complicated and requires more steps to do what I want. Keep it simple and efficient. I have to look up simple functions to see how to access them. Apple is out of touch with what people want and will lose their fan base. Wake up Apple!