I have used pinned tabs in Safari since they were a thing. And they have always remained intact after I quit and relaunch Safari. But since the macOS Tahoe update, the pinned tabs disappear after I relaunch Safari.
Why is this happening?
OK... Solved this. The situation was part of a greater problem that happened when I updated from macOS Sequoia to Tahoe.
In addition to disappearing pinned tabs, any new Safari profiles I created would disappear after I quit and relaunched Safari. And profiles I created on my iPhone and iPad (which synced with each other) would not appear on the macOS Safari.
I went to delete the ~Library/Containers/Safari folder as suggested elsewhere. And found TWO Safari folders. Weird that two sub-folders of the same name could co-exist in the same directory. Anyway, I deleted both of them.
After that, everything worked as expected. Profiles synced. Pinned tabs persisted through restarts of Safari. Hallelujah!
OK... Solved this. The situation was part of a greater problem that happened when I updated from macOS Sequoia to Tahoe.
In addition to disappearing pinned tabs, any new Safari profiles I created would disappear after I quit and relaunched Safari. And profiles I created on my iPhone and iPad (which synced with each other) would not appear on the macOS Safari.
I went to delete the ~Library/Containers/Safari folder as suggested elsewhere. And found TWO Safari folders. Weird that two sub-folders of the same name could co-exist in the same directory. Anyway, I deleted both of them.
After that, everything worked as expected. Profiles synced. Pinned tabs persisted through restarts of Safari. Hallelujah!
Pinned tabs in Safari 26.0 (Tahoe) disappearing after quit and relaunch
