How to change Safari tabs back to stacked iOS 15

I'm having the same issue! How can I re-stack the tabs after the update?

I don't want to have each page on full display and spend time searching. It was so much easier to flick through the stacked tabs with the websites names at the top. This new method is time consuming and not functional. Please can we have a way to revert back.

Please provide option for stacked tabs. At the very least offer the sort option of “time first opened”. That is how the sort order used to be and exactly what I expected.

While you are at it, also offer sort option of “time last opened”. That is probably how people will prefer to use it.

Such a mess, cannot stand the new “tab” layout, and I definitely want the “stacked” view back. After reading through this forum, I can see I’m not alone.

I have changed to Opera like others on here suggested. Opera is much better than having to waste my time with the new layout on Safari, but the old safari layout beats Opera any day. Please give us the option Apple!

If this doesn’t change, my whole household will switch to a different maker for our phone and tablet needs, and we’ve been loyal to Apple going back to iPhone 3. By the way Apple, that is 6 personal iPhones, 2 business phones, 6 personal iPads, and 2 business iPads. We all used to use Safari for everything, work research, school research, etc…but it’s next to impossible to figure out what tab is the one I’m looking for, and leads to an enormous amount of frustration, not to mention accidentally deleted tabs!

Wish I could unwind this update!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If one more person from Apple, (like Chris C. above), pastes that **** auto-reply into someone’s to someone’s comment about NEEDING STACKED TABS BACK, every single person who’s been replying on this thread and who is LIVID about this new tab layout — and them replacing the incredibly efficient “stacked tabs” with this extremely unhelpful and inefficient layout — should CALL APPLE AND COMPLAIN OVER THE PHONE. Let’s tie up their “help” lines until they actually provide the stacked tabs option!!! Because clearly, despite this thread, they are not taking this matter seriously enough. I, too, will be leaving Apple and switching if they don’t provide this resolution in the NEXT UPDATE, and I’m an Apple lifer and full Apple household, as well.

Chris C1 - As the official Apple flak-catcher on this question, your response is illustrative of Apple’s response to most user problems: you correctly re-stated the question (“you’d like to change the way Safari displays tabs in iOS 15”), and then you provided an irrelevant answer to a different problem.

Why bother to have an “Apple Community” if it is only a hollow sounding board for complaints, and not a site where users will find helpful information?

It’s appalling, right?! As if turning off the “Helpful” button will miraculously shut us all up about it or make the problem go away. Guess what, Apple? IT WON’T.

Return to the stacked tabs layout or provide users the option to choose between the two, and do so WITH THE NEXT UPDATE. If you don’t, you are going to be LOSING NUMEROUS CUSTOMERS. We won’t tolerate this inefficient and HORRIBLE, useless layout — we just won’t.

I agree as having just purchased a new iPhone 13 mini I was devastated to find one of the best safari features stacking tabs had been changed to unreadable and unworkable tiles. Seems like a great way to lose customers. I don’t know how I’m going to tell my wife who just bought her iPhone 13 mini too and is awaiting delivery. She is very organised and is going to hate the new tile tab system.

I’m really struggling with this new tab layout for Safari on IOS15, such a backward step from the old stacked tab view. Can see many others have the same concern here, so has there been any update from Apple to fix this mess, as I have not been able to find any solution online? Thx

I concur, the new style of tiny tabs laid out in a grid is extremely time consuming, every time I want to go to a tab or close a tab it’s many seconds and numerous clicks, when it used to be a quick swipe or two (of the stacked tab style), and used to be able to see full page view to know what I’m looking at. How could any product designer think this new style is more user friendly? It seems Apple just likes to change the UI for the heck of it, despite this particular feature working well for so many years. Is there an Android mole in Apple’s house?

1000% agree. It’s absolutely useless now to keep ANY web pages open. Completely inaccessible. May as well have ability to open only 6 at a time, period, as that is all that this new fiasco of a system will accommodate. I am panicking as I try to plan my trip of a lifetime and all the info I had waiting is virtually inaccessible.

My reference library in the stacked file system is useless now in the grid/tile view system.

Time flies by, the most precious commodity, and no work can be done. The internet as accessed via Safari, ceased to be a working tool/instrument, it is just incomprehensible to throw away the essence of internet information accesability, it is like going back to some prehistoric internet evolutionary period. What next? Punched cards for programming?

I don’t see any hope that the new iOS 15.4 update, which dropped today, will resolve the Safari “stacked tabs” disaster. In the commentary on the new update, I noted that special thanks for Safari development was offered by Apple, to Russian developer Konstantin Darutkin - no surprise that Apple sought Russian assistance to screw up Safari so badly.

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…

omfg, i hate this. I have 15.2 and everything was great until like 2 hours ago when SUDDENLY i guess everything changed. I never update ios without a major need, i updated to 15 cuz of airpods.

So my phone died and then SUDDENLY MY SAFARI CHANGED. No previous tabs nothing. NO TH IN G. i had like 10 links in private, but now i have nothing and **** like create a new category and weird design.

i guess today is the day when safari is died to me, bye. and hello opera

I agree in my opinion the change from stacking tabs is an absolute car crash and it appears to be not one that apple looks to be changing anytime soon. The other problem is that while I would trust Opera for browsing it doesn’t appear to me to be as secure as Safari and I personally wouldn’t trust my internet banking with it. So I’m caught between a rock and a hard place but to me the latest iOS set of changes has just made the apple iPhone a less desirable option next upgrade.