Safari keeps opening up to first tab on iPhone

This worked for me:

1- open Settings

2- scroll down to Safari and select

3- scroll down to Tabs

I had single tab selected.

4- Change selection to Tab Bar.

5- Close and reopen Safari (it opened correctly to the last page/tab viewed)

6- Continue in Settings/Safari/Tabs and change back to single tab

7- Close and reopen Safari

Hello Safaritabissue,

Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.

We understand that Safari on your iPhone is opening to the first tab instead of the most recent tab used. You would like it to open to the most recent tab as it used to. We would recommend starting by reviewing the following article: Set up and use iCloud Tabs.

If you continue to have issues, you may need to Clear the history and cookies from Safari on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Keep in mind that this action would clear all Safari browsing history from your device and would have to be recreated afterwards.

Best regards.

Found this on reddit and it helped so far!

"I found a solution to this! Go to settings>Safari>downloads. If it says ICloud, then the problem happens because it’s deleting tabs after it uploads them. Click on ICloud and change it to my Iphone. Then below that, it asks “Delete downloaded items” and choose “manually. “ This fixed the problem for me.

Also make sure that under Safari, Tabs section that you choose to close them manually.

I hope this helps!!"

Here’s what I did to fix it:

• Go to Settings
• Scroll all the way down to Safari and click on it
• Once you click on it go to the Search options and check if you have the option “Preload Top Hit” turned on.
• If you do make sure to turn it off and you should be good to go

No solutions so far that will work (in the end).

The only workaround for me is still:

• Goto the tabs view (two square icons)
• Open a new tab (+ icon)
• Goto the tabs view again
• Delete the new tab

That brings me to the end of my latest tabs.

This is what I could suggest for the moment; …go to the browser, tap tabs and select a new tab before ending your browsing… Please let me know if this works for you!

Be safe.

None of these solves the issue.

Same issue here. Just started happening. Going to try and update to iOS15.4.

This has been driving me INSANE but I haven’t been able to find any solutions. It’s such a horrible user experience

Same. @Apple what is the fix here??? Safari keeps opening first tab instead of the last tab I was viewing. Dreadful

Same issue here. Very irritating.

To go to the bottom, I always open a new tab. That works in this case.

I have the exact same issue. Started with the last iOS update and nothing helps. At the same time tabs I closed multiple times just reappear once I open safari again after a few minutes. Very annoying

Same, I like to keep important tabs up so end up having around 100 tabs open in safari (personal choice), it’s very inconvenient to have to keep opening up an old tab and having to go through the effort of opening a new tab just to get to my most recent tabs. Not at all user friendly. I hate to be THAT person but it’s all these little irritating things that tempt me to switching to android. Hopefully there is a solution.

yes!!! This is happening to me too and I absolutely hate it. Whenever I open safari on my iPhone12, it’s opening up my first tab by default rather than my latest tab. I can’t seem to find a fix for this. It’s super annoying and I can see that others are experiencing this too and are equally frustrated.

@Apple you need to fix this!!

Same issues with my safari… sure would be nice if apple could reply with a solution. It truly is so annoying to have to scroll down 100’s of tabs, every time I want to get to the last tab I had used..