Safari keeps opening up to first tab on iPhone

My results don’t seem to be consistent either. Can’t tell if it’s a timing issue. Seems to have worked for a while - but the next day, starting Safari again, went to first tab. Only after the first time manually selecting or creating new tab, Safari retains that following a restart. But not sure for how long.

Feb 10, that’s when this user reported this issue, an issue that has been driving me insane, but for which I just assumed there was a new setting someplace that I was too lazy to find. Feb 10. Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine, which feels like a long, long time ago. BECAUSE IT IS. Apple has not provided any helpful answer or fix for a super irritating issue, involving their own application, which millions of people use multiple times a day, every day. FIX THIS!!!!!

I am having the same issue and also my recently opened tabs disappear and tabs I have already closed, reopen. This started happening after the last iOS update. I closed all of my tabs which seemed to help but now that I have about 100 tabs open, it’s happening again. It’s extremely annoying!

I also have the same issue for the last few months! So frustrating. Can’t believe there have been no responses. Could it be related to the model you have? my husband and I have diffenent iPhones and he doesn’t have this problem. Either way, they should still advise how to fix the bug.

Does not work. I have four same tabs which opens whatever I do. Also private tabs with some windows, when I delete ALL of them and I reopen Safari all Private tabs are there again.

What I've tried:

• deleted cookies, settings
• Screentime on/off
• Unsync/sync iCloud
• delete all tabs, over and over again
• switched nearby all settings in
• -----> Prefs -> Safari or
• -----> Prefs -> iCloud as well
• -----> each setting in Safari

Here is a video how it looks like

-----> https://www.veed.io/view/0c801069-a683-4e35-89b4-4f3668295cfe

Fix this please

Holy smokes! This worked!!!

I was 5 seconds from needing a new phone after this one was about to be smashed against a wall!

well that’s one annoying problem solved! Now on to my anger management issues…😅

Is people still having this freaking issue? Its getting really annoying that when I open Safari, it goes to the top of the tabs and deletes my recent one. Sooo annoying..

i checked the Tabs setting and it set to manually delete, also checked the downloads and its set to on my phone and delete manually 😡

I’m still in the same boat. Even if they don’t have a fix it would be nice for them to simply say so, apologize, and possibly address it in a future update. It’s completely illogical. If they allow up to 500 tabs, it’s quite obvious that anyone using dozens of tabs are willing to scroll backward to see what they saved for future reference. But to scroll forward (with extreme lag) to see a page opened 5 minutes ago is ridiculous. I’ve even had it crash scrolling through to the most recent. Yes I know the trick to open a new page and then go to tabs but even then it still ends up quite often deleting the most recent, seemingly at random. I could look up a recipe then 5 mins later look up a dictionary definition in a new tab, then 10 mins later I want to see the recipe and the tab is completely gone. Not overwritten with something, just gone like I never opened it.

No that is not it. Just a button in settings will be fine thank you very much. Also things like this you can record the ammount of people who set that button to "normal" option because they do not want to scroll 100 tabs every time they open safari. Then when you look at those statistics you can maybe decide to give the responsible ux designer a nice position making coffe or something ; )

Having the same issue here, an iOS Update made this happen.

I can’t get safari to open after update . I even reset phone to factory . I tried everything !

Same here, I really hate this! Please fix it, Apple.

Notice how they didn’t reply because they know you’re right. What a joke of a company. Waste of space. The world would be so much happier if this disappointment of a company didn’t exist.

That’s a bit harsh…as you seem to be using „that company‘s“ device while typing this…

This didn’t do anything for me unfortunately