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I accidentally closed 300 tabs on my iPad IOS 16.6. Have always been able to recover in the past. I slowly swiped up on the safari icon but the old tab page with the 300 was not there. I have done this in the past but not now. Is there a new way on this new IOS to recover them.
I was able to retrieve lost tabs in the past. “Too much time has passed” is an unacceptable answer because this has been a flaw in iPads for a decade and never fixed by apple ….. why ??
I was able to retrieve lost tabs in the past. “Too much time has passed” is an unacceptable answer because this has been a flaw in iPads for a decade and never fixed by apple ….. why ??
Are you certain that you closed all your tabs - and have not, perhaps, opened a new Safari Window? Each Safari Window has its own self-contained set of open tabs.
When you open Safari, you may see the Shelf at the bottom of the screen - within which you will see each of your open Safari Windows; simply tap the thumbnail corresponding with the Safari Window (with associated tabs) that you wish to view.
If you closed a Safari Window - and all associated tabs - you can reopen a Recently Closed Window…
Starting from a Home Screen, assuming that Safari is visible in the Dock, touch-and-hold (i.e., long touch) the Safari icon; an Action Menu will appear.
From the menu, select Show All Windows; you will now see a screen that closely resembles the Task Switcher - but you will only see preview windows for your open Safari Windows. At top-right (or top-left for iPadOS16) you will see the Reopen Closed Window(s) button.
You should note that the Reopen Closed Window(s) button allows you to reopen a window for a limited period of time. If left too long, you may have lost the opportunity to recover the closed window - and with it the tabs and related tab history.
If you have accidentally closed all you your open tabs associated with a Safari Window, this User Tip may be helpful in recovering your tabs. While I have not [yet] updated the document to reflect changes in iPadOS15/16 (having been written for an earlier version of iPadOS), much of it is still relevant - as are the outlined strategies:
iPadOS - Safari - Lost Windows, Lost Tabs… - Apple Community
Whether acceptable to you or not, I can only communicate to you information that describes how iOS/iPadOS actually works. If you act quickly enough, by design, a closed App Window can be successfully reopened by following the outlined process.
When you close an App Window, its state is temporarily saved. If you allow too much time to pass, or if you restart the ipad, the temporarily saved state is cleared along with other volatile state-data. This isn’t a bug; it is how the OS handles temporary/transient data.
Apple does invite submission of comments and feature requests via its Product Feedback portal. For iPad and iPadOS:
If you would like Apple to consider changing functionality in a future version of iOS/iPadOS, this would be the most appropriate channel through which to make a request.
i have done all of this - along with my daughters supervision. None of them worked
If you’ve not managed to recover the lost tabs, too much time has passed since the Safari Window was closed.
iOS 16.6
