Safari closing tabs unprompted

This happened twice in a day. I had around 20 tabs opened in Safari. When I closed one of those tabs, all of the other tabs were also closed. How can I recover the closed tabs/URLS?


Pressing and holding the Safari icon did not bring up the option to re-open any window. Thank you.

iPhone 16 Pro Max, iOS 18

Posted on Jan 11, 2025 12:31 PM

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Jan 11, 2025 6:27 PM in response to sunshine_xyz

Is it possible that you accidentally just changed to a different "tab group". If not, you may need to use history to reopen those tabs. Safary does not automatically close tabs so I'm not sure why you experienced that.


Here are some great resources to familiarize yourself with tab management features in Safari for iOS:

Open and close tabs in Safari on iPhone - Apple Support

Organize your tabs with Tab Groups in Safari on iPhone - Apple Support


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