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iPad closed about a hundred tabs on its own.

How does this happen? Yesterday morning they were there, now they’re not. I went from about 200 to about 100 without user input or device warning at all.


The only change I made yesterday was to change my search engine to Bing.


I have only one safari window open, no private tabs or windows. I have tabs set to close manually.


Fortunately I made a backup about a week ago, but it’s so unpredictable and I shouldn’t have to rely on backups to compensate for a device’s random unreliability.


This device is becoming so frustratingly unpredictably unreliable. Whether it’s separate safari windows opening unintentionally, the wrong symbols coming from keystrokes, multitasking windows opening unintentionally, and swaths of tabs disappearing every couple months, there’s just too many things going on that make me want to turn this into a frisbee.

iPad, iPadOS 15

Posted on Jan 28, 2023 7:36 AM

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Posted on Jan 28, 2023 7:49 AM

Depending upon your iPad settings, unused open tabs may be closed automatically. Check your Safari settings:

Settings > Safari > Close Tabs >


Select from:

  • Manually
  • After One Day
  • After One Week
  • After One Month


When set to Manually, your Safari tabs should remain open until manually closed. In all other cases, tabs will be closed automatically upon timed expiry.


Note, however, that an open tab may be automatically replaced in certain circumstances. iPadOS Safari has a hard-limit of 500 open-tabs; with the tab-limit reached, opening a new tab from within an open tab will replace an existing open-tab.

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Jan 28, 2023 7:49 AM in response to Gpgreen29

Depending upon your iPad settings, unused open tabs may be closed automatically. Check your Safari settings:

Settings > Safari > Close Tabs >


Select from:

  • Manually
  • After One Day
  • After One Week
  • After One Month


When set to Manually, your Safari tabs should remain open until manually closed. In all other cases, tabs will be closed automatically upon timed expiry.


Note, however, that an open tab may be automatically replaced in certain circumstances. iPadOS Safari has a hard-limit of 500 open-tabs; with the tab-limit reached, opening a new tab from within an open tab will replace an existing open-tab.

iPad closed about a hundred tabs on its own.

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