How to delete starting pages from Safari?

I suspect that you make reference to the “Shelf” - this being a new feature of the now revised iPadOS multitasking environment.

iPadOS permits you to have multiple “instances” of the same App - each instance being self contained. The shelf, when triggered, shows a thumbnail of each running instance of an App.

For example, if you have three running instances of Safari, each with its own set of open tabs, you will see three thumbnails corresponding to each running instance of Safari - plus a button to open a new instance of Safari. Simply tapping a thumbnail will switch directly to that running instance of Safari. Each App has its own corresponding shelf.

This article from Appleinsider has a useful explanation of this new feature along with many of the updates to multitasking:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/08/12/how-to-master-multitasking-on-ipad-and-ipad-pro-in-ipados-15

The iPad User Guide is also a rich source of frequently overlooked information. The Guide is available both online using a web browser (such as Safari), or as an Apple Books download:

iPad User Guide - Apple Support

https://books.apple.com/book/id1567104892

You should note that the shelf is an integral component of the multitasking User Interface. It cannot be disabled.

Touch one of the start pages you wish to delete. Drag it upward until it disappears.

Press down on the icon and drag it to top and off screen. I did this for 2 of 4 small icons and last 2 disappeared on their own.

Yes, this works. Just like hold and slide it quickly to the top. I had 8 start pages. Thanks

Dobberbobber can’t find your question but to delete start pages from Safari.

Do NOT hold the page just quickly flick the page upwards and it will disappear. It works for me.

Good Luck the pages are so annoying.

Go to Settings / Safari

Turn off Open New Tabs in Background

When you reopen Safari the tabs are still there but you can now move them off the page by dragging them up and off.

This technique works on my iPad 6th generation running iOS 15.3.1.

When you open Safari you'll see an ellipsis at the top center of the full screen start page. Touching the ellipsis will cause three more icons to appear. You can use them to alter the dimensions and behavior of the full screen start page.

Each of the miniature start pages across the bottom of the screen also has an ellipsis. I was able to duplicate the miniature start screen behavior you described by touching a miniature screen at its top edge then dragging it upward. The miniature screen elongated then morphed into a 1/2 page. This behavior did not occur whenever I began the attempt by touching the miniature start page at its center.

I've read that those miniature start pages across there bottom of the screen are called the "shelf". I wish Apple had left the shelf on the shelf.

Good luck.

Flicking them up worked for me, but there were dozens and it took ages to get rid of them all. I don't understand how they got there in the first place. Apple needs to get rid of this "feature"--it seems more like a bug, to me.

I also had problems with many safari start sheets that I could not remove. The trick is not to drag them to the top of the page but to flick quickly upwards and they do disappear.

I know it’s really annoying so I went to my local Apple shop and in a second learnt the trick of flicking upwards. Keep flicking Attheendofmytether it does work.

I also had problems with many safari start sheets that I could not remove. The trick is to drag them slowly upwards to the top of the page and they do disappear.

I’ve got several start windows at the bottom of my iPad 6. Each time I try to drag them upwards to delete them, the window grows long and becomes a 1/2 window. Now, I’ve got mega start & 1/2 windows!! Your directions DID NOT WORK!

I had the same problem and I was complaining here as well. It works just need to learn how to do it. Keep hold the page until the very top of your screen then it will disappear.

you need to pass the stage off 2x1/2 page stage keep dragging upwards.

FINALLY FOUND THE SOLUTION! Thank you! You made my day👍

See this user guide:--> iPad User Guide – Apple Support (UK), click on Table of Contents>Apps>Safari.

If you don't fins what you're looking for, please submit your request/suggestion to Apple directly, using the following link:--> Apple – Product Feedback

Regards

Giulio