How to change Safari tabs back to stacked iOS 15

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.

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.

I agree, the stacked format is so much better. Plus, you were able to move tabs around so that those most frequently used were at the front or those used together were close. This new way is TERRIBLE!!!!

Agree. I hate the new non-stacked tab format. I commonly have 300 or more tabs open at a time (research) and this new tab management system loves to go back to the BEGINNING of my tabs when I try to look for a recent reference. Of course, the old system did not, because it was rational. It's harder now to see what's IN the tab, and when you figure it out and close it, a bunch of pages fly around and reorganize themselves. Distracting and slow. Maybe Apple could create a disability option where ADHDers (and the rest of humanity) could go back to the system that worked perfectly well.

I was willing to try the new layout, but agree with the other comments here.

I've lost count of the number of times I've accidentally deleted all my tabs when I've tried to rearrange them. It's an appalling 'design'.

Please bring back or give the option to have the old stack tab system

I’m just going to switch to switch to Firefox. That’s how much i hate the new tab view. I don’t understand why companies think drastically changing their app products is useful to consumers. This isn’t what we want.

I've sent a couple complaints to these links. I think this thread needs to get active, or we may just be ignored. It feels like some android-loving reddit janitors have taken over UI development at Apple.

It has been pretty active. I get updates on it several times a week; that’s more active than any other thread I’ve ever posted on. I’m not sure Apple personnel actually views these though. I think it’s more of a user board.