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Safari says there's 2 tabs in settings while I only have one open

So I was going to clear all of my history in settings and then I saw I somehow only had two tabs open but when I check in safari, I only had one open and I didn’t have any private tabs and it says that when you are going to clear history in safari. I think it is a hacker


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iPhone XR, iOS 17

Posted on Dec 29, 2023 5:09 AM

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Posted on Jan 20, 2024 5:22 PM

This has occurred with me as well. I cleared my history recently with only 2 tabs open, that I was aware of, and it said I was about to clear 9. Where are these tabs? Are they on someone else’s screen, somehow? I’d love for someone at Apple to have an answer for this as well as safari’s disappearing tabs and how any of these “hidden” tabs can be seen and who may be accessing them.

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Jan 20, 2024 5:22 PM in response to kATHY324

This has occurred with me as well. I cleared my history recently with only 2 tabs open, that I was aware of, and it said I was about to clear 9. Where are these tabs? Are they on someone else’s screen, somehow? I’d love for someone at Apple to have an answer for this as well as safari’s disappearing tabs and how any of these “hidden” tabs can be seen and who may be accessing them.

Feb 19, 2024 4:58 AM in response to kATHY324

Start Page changed.

Top Right now has See All (or less), when ‘seeing all’ your favorites are displayed by default, ‘seeing less’ shows Privacy Report and an Edit button, when the update occurred that was default view. Select Edit and find all new features/options.

The one that is bringing up your concern is iCloud is on.

This feature allows you to see the open tabs on your other logged in Apple devices. I am not Apple savvy, using iPhone only 2 years and this utterly drove me crazy. I’m not on reddit either but it was also asked there and someone suggested malware, it certainly felt like that to me.

Turning off iCloud tabs resolves this.

Safari says there's 2 tabs in settings while I only have one open

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