Accidentally clicked delete all tabs and want to get them(urgent)

UPDATE: TheGingerbeardMan with IdrisSeabright’s clarification has a good, valid suggestion to reopen tabs.

You can retrieve your browsing history.

In Safari, tap the book-like icon, then the clock-like icon.

There's a few ways you might be able to bring them back.

• Whenever you accidentally make a change on iPhone, you can shake the phone to bring up the undo prompt.
• If you press and hold the plus icon used to open a new tab, you should see an option to reopen closed tabs.
• If those options doesn't work, you can check your history to re-open the websites from the closed tabs.

These options will only work if you haven't cleared your history, and you are not using private browsing.

TheGingerbeardMan wrote:

• There's a few ways you might be able to bring them back.

Whenever you accidentally make a change on iPhone, you can shake the phone to bring up the undo prompt.

That only works for typing as far as I know. I just tested it on Safari after closing a tab and it does nothing. What happened when you tested it?

• If you press and hold the plus icon used to open a new tab, you should see an option to reopen closed tabs.

To clarify, it brings up a list of recently closed tabs, not an option to "reopen closed tabs". You need to click on each one individually.

You may see your recent Safari history. Open Safari, tap the icon on bottom that looks like an open book, then tap the clock.

The shake to undo works for more than just typing, here’s a non-exhaustive list of things it can work for:

• Reading, moving, deleting or reporting emails as junk
• Closing a tab in Safari
• Creating or editing a calendar event
• Renaming, deleting, creating or moving a file or folder in the files app
• Creating, deleting, editing, completing or moving reminders
• Rearranging apps on the home screen

TheGingerbeardMan wrote:

• The shake to undo works for more than just typing, here’s a non-exhaustive list of things it can work for:

Reading, moving, deleting or reporting emails as junk

• Closing a tab in Safari

• Creating or editing a calendar event

• Renaming, deleting, creating or moving a file or folder in the files app

• Creating, deleting, editing, completing or moving reminders

• Rearranging apps on the home screen

Did you specifically test it with closing out a tab? I did and it didn't work. Did it work for you on your phone?

I’ve recently deleted my search history but realized I closed all tabs too and it was above 100 of them and some were really important for my and than I saw recently closed tabs clicked on it and instead of opening them I cleared them all and I tried looking for them in all deleted search history but still didn’t find them since I opened those tabs 9 months ago and didn’t close them can someone help recover those ?

Still doesn't work for me. Perhaps it's just me...

Shaking the phone helped me!! Thank you!!!

I had lost my tab history gingerman replied with simple answer. “ hit no icon than hit clock icon .whallah! I got my history back . A big thanks to him. Ursie

Yes, the only times it hasn’t worked is if I do something else that can be undone by shaking before I go to undo the tab close, if the keyboard appears, or if I close or force close Safari. There’s only one setting that can affect the behavior, and that’s the shake to undo switch in the touch accessibility settings.

This is the ONLY thing that worked for me. The easiest and quickest way to restore closed tabs on a Mac for any browser is reopen the browser and hold the "shift+command+T" keys. Remember, you need to do this for each tab you want to restore. So for example, if you need to restore 50 tab, you would need to do this 50 times. Hope this helps ☺️

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Ty, that was really helpful during an anxiety filled 15mins.

Accidentally deleted tabs on I pad, need them back