When I drag a Safari tab to create a new window it remains in the previous window but fades out like it's not active. So in the event, I close the tab out on the original window it closes it on the new window as well. I hope that makes sense. I keep multiple tabs open on Safari and never had this issue until recently.
MacBook Pro
I found this on reddit and it worked for me:
Close Safari and then open it back up again in safe mode (hold the Shift key while opening Safari).
Open a few tabs and drag one of them into a new window. The problem should go away now.
Close Safari and re-open as normal. Duplicating tabs should not happen anymore.
With credit to Kim at Apple Support.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Safari/comments/xrrdm4/comment/ir14ifa/
I believe that this was broken in the 12.6 release. I am seeing the same problem in Safari version 16.0 (17614.1.29.9.10). It has been driving me crazy since I routinely move tabs to new windows or between windows. The following screen captures shows the outcome of dragging this tab from the parent to a new window. Both the new window and its shadow in the parent window will update when you toggle between them.
You will see a similar behavior when you drag tabs between windows. The difference in that case is that the tab title is empty in the new window. I am assuming that this is a defect that came out of the tab grouping changes recently introduced.
Tabs do not leave first window entirely a… - Apple Community seems to be the same issue.
Oh good, other people with the same issue! I thought I was going insane. This make Safari completely unusable for me, I hope they fix it fast.
I believe that this was broken in the 12.6 release. I am seeing the same problem in Safari version 16.0 (17614.1.29.9.10). It has been driving me crazy since I routinely move tabs to new windows or between windows. The following screen captures shows the outcome of dragging this tab from the parent to a new window. Both the new window and its shadow in the parent window will update when you toggle between them.
You will see a similar behavior when you drag tabs between windows. The difference in that case is that the tab title is empty in the new window. I am assuming that this is a defect that came out of the tab grouping changes recently introduced.
Tabs do not leave first window entirely a… - Apple Community seems to be the same issue.
Oh good, other people with the same issue! I thought I was going insane. This make Safari completely unusable for me, I hope they fix it fast.
Also, when you attempt to reopen that closed tab, it opens with 2 untitled tabs. Then you attempt to close the tab, and it opens more untitled tabs. More you close - even more of them opens up!
I'm having this same problem as well, thought it comes and goes. Sometimes if I quit safari and then reopen, it doesn't happen for a while. Then all of sudden it starts doing it again. Super annoying.
I found this on reddit and it worked for me:
Close Safari and then open it back up again in safe mode (hold the Shift key while opening Safari).
Open a few tabs and drag one of them into a new window. The problem should go away now.
Close Safari and re-open as normal. Duplicating tabs should not happen anymore.
With credit to Kim at Apple Support.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Safari/comments/xrrdm4/comment/ir14ifa/
This worked for me. Thank you!
This may have fixed another issue I was having where I would drag a tab out of a window and it would disappear, and sometimes if I dragged it to an existing window with only one tab open, it wouldn't show the tab bar at the top, until I open a new tab in that window... Theres a lot of tab related issues in this update, can't believe it's still not working without doing this weird wonky workaround. But thanks so much for posting the solution, PeterG_, it was driving me bananas.
Oh, never mind, that still doesn't work. If you drag a tab to a window that has never had another tab opened on it, you won't see the new tab until you create a new tab with the + new tab button at the top right.
A little annoying, but not nearly as annoying as the OP problem.
Unfortunately this worked only one day. Today it's again as matthew8706 described it... 🙄
The same issue on my site. `safe mode` helped for 1 day only after that problem came back.
I can confirm the same behavior:
#1 - If I pull the tab out of the window and drag to another window, it doesn't move. When I release the mouse, it simply goes back and acts like it was never moved.
#2 - If I pull the tab out of the window and drag to a new window, it creates the new window...but the original tab reappears in the old window. As soon as I click on the old window, the new window just created from the pulled tab disappears and it returns to the original window.
Closing and reopening Safari fixes it but, if you move between windows often, this happens several times during the day. It's very annoying.
-mitchel
I can confirm the same issue, the safari tabs greyed out, and restoring the last session will cause the tabs to duplicate and freeze safari.
I have sought apple support, they recommended reinstalling macOS, I will try and update again.
How to reinstall macOS - Apple Support (SG)
I can confirm the same issue, the safari tabs greyed out, and restoring the last session will cause the tabs to duplicate and freeze safari.
I have sought apple support, they recommended reinstalling macOS, I will try and update again.
I hope that you did not wipe/reinstall your system. I completely wipe mine but still have the same issue for Safari tabs! The issue reminds even after updating from macOS 12.6 to 13.0 :<
Might be too early to tell but...
I upgraded to Safari 16.1 on macOS 12.6.1. So far, tabs seems to be working correctly again.
-mitchel
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