Remove Tab Group Favorites under bookmarks

Hi. I was having trouble with this too, but I figured out how to do it:

Ironically (?), to delete a tab group under "Bookmarks" you have to arrow back out of "Bookmarks" (the arrow to the left of Bookmarks in your photo). After you arrow out, you will immediately see your list of "Tab Group Favorites" in this panel - you will then be able to delete your tab groups and they will disappear from your list of bookmarks back in the "Bookmarks" panel (you may need to erase your internet history, quit and restart Safari to see that they're gone). Unfortunately, I don't think you can remove the main/parent "Tab Group Favorites" folder from the Bookmarks panel... At least, I haven't figured out how to do that if it is possible... Would be really "nice" if you could though, it's annoying as heck if you don't have any tab group favorites (like me...) *Note to Apple: maybe consider the comments made in this chat who think Safari users should be allowed to remove the "Tab Group Favorites" folder from the "Bookmarks" panel if they wish... oi.

I think you're missing the point. We don't want to use tab group favorites *at all* but can't delete that line in the Bookmarks -- and there's no way to even move it to the bottom of the menu to hide it.

Whoever pointed out that the question is not how to delete tabs from Tab Group Favorites is right. Some of us simply want to delete-eliminate-shitcan the whole stupid TGF icon—or at least be able to move it so it’s not the first fing tab in Bookmarks. I’m unsophisticated about this stuff, so I can’t help asking: what is the point of not allowing the user to control the location of a tab?

Y'all, she doesn't want to delete a Tab Group. She want to completely remove the Tab Group FAVORITES from her Bookmarks. I've not found one single solution on here to address that. Those of us who don't need Tab Groups need an option to customize our Bookmarks and not show or preferably completely REMOVE the "Tab Group Favorites". Can someone answer this, please?

Hi there,

I am also having this problem. I tried to remove from the sidebar and top menu in "Edit Bookmarks" with no avail. It didn't work in Monterey and it doesn't work in Ventura which I just upgraded to.

When I try this:

• "Delete a Tab Group: In the sidebar, Control-click a Tab Group, then choose Delete."

all it does is bring up "Copy" or "Sort by". I think "Delete" should be here but it's not. It also won't let me drag and drop it into the recycling bin.

I also cannot get rid of the general "Tab Group Favourites". It is super frustrating because I just want to get rid of it because they are useless.

Thanks for your help!

To delete a Tab Group under Tag Group Favorites, you will need open the Tab Group you want to delete by doing the following steps:

Bookmarks > Show Bookmarks > Tab Group Favorites > Right click the tab you want to delete > Hover over "Open in Tab Group" > Select Tab Group Favorites

It may seem as if nothing happened, however Safari has now enabled the option to delete the group you selected.

Go to File > Delete Tab Group

Once you've deleted the tab group, you will want to close Safari and open it up again to resync the changes.

Once Safari has reopened, navigate back to Tab Group Favorites and you will notice that the tab group you wanted to delete is no longer showing.

It is not possible to delete “Tab Group Favourites” from Safari on an iPad.

Nothing that anyone has posted previously will delete this tab.

Apple know best and you just don’t know what you need so you cannot delete it.

Hi there!

If you're looking for an answer.. here it is! So please don't look elsewhere, you're not going to find it..

As this feature is incredibly buggy, you're not going to be able to do this on a Mac.. so please.. don't try.. instead, you'll need an iPhone connected to the same Apple ID and synced. I don't own an iPad so I don't know if it would work on one..

As I don't want to create more of a problem I don't want to try and recreate the steps.. but here they are..

Go to Safari on iPhone on iOS 16.

Open up the Tabs.

Press on "X Number Tab" With an arrow beside it.

You'll now see your Tab Groups.

Hold down on the Tab Group you'd like to delete and options will appear to delete them.

I'd recommend being very careful and doing this at a slow pace, as I for one don't know if the options will suddenly disappear. Do this for all of them if you'd like..

I wouldn't recommend renaming them. In my experience, this causes more trouble than its worth, however if you want to do that, you can..

Once you've deleted all of them, I would recommend just not touching them. As this feature is quite buggy and doesn't work smoothly, if in the future you decide to use it, you may find yourself unable to delete your Tab Groups, and that's probably the reason, that you are here on this thread.

I hope this helps.

-Levi

*Please note you won't be able to delete your Tab Groups from Bookmarks in Safari. I am running iOS 16.1.1.

To answer everyones question without Apple's help, you have to to is open Safari on your iPad or iPhone. Tap on the the tabs icon on the bottom right and your tabs group list will be in the middle. Tapping the down arrow will show all your tabs groups. Long press the one you want to remove and the menu will give you the option to delete. You must have Safari synced on all your devices for this to work. This will not work to remove the main tab groups favorites folder.

It’s easy, but it’s NOT under the “bookmarks” tab. You’ll need to delete by going under Safari.

Under/over the the URL bar in Safari, look for the double square icon.

Click as if you’re to open a new Safari tab. Click the middle white text that says “tab” or “private tab.”

Click the edit button in the new screen, click the … (3 dots icon) beside the favorites tab you want to delete from favorites. It does not delete the tab entirely, just from being a favorites tab.

HTH! Drove me bonkers.

there is no tab groups option for me when i do that.

still unable to delete, how ridiculous.

Also having the same problem. No delete option. Safari Version 16.1 (18614.2.9.1.12)

Hi,

Having the same issue. Had a clean up of my devices and iCloud including purging / organising Safari bookmarks and tabs across devices (MacBook, iPad and iPhone).

Iphone and iPad no problem, re-organised and they sync well with iCloud. MacBook a different story - doesn't play well with iCloud, syncing is buggy [having issues with iCloud Drive which is a whole other issue]. But really annoying is the inability to delete and start again (extreme option). Just can't delete 'Tab Group Favourites' from the MacBook. All control clicks and button combo's attempted, there just isn't a delete function available.

Hi brooklynbabe,

We see that you're having an issue removing Tab Groups on your iMac. To remove that Tab Group, try the following steps from the following resource that can help with what you're trying to accomplish:

Edit and customize Tab Groups in Safari on Mac

• "Delete a Tab Group: In the sidebar, Control-click a Tab Group, then choose Delete."

If you try this step and the issue remains, can you tell us what happens when you try this step? Are you seeing an error message?

Regards.

Genius! Worked, I was able to delete tab groups under my tab group favorites that I no longer wanted. Thanks!