How to Open a Recently Closed Tab in Safari on Your iOS Device

[MacRumors]

Accidentally close a browser tab in Safari on iOS and want to open it back up? There's a simple gesture for that, which you may not know about.

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All you have to do is open up the tab view in Safari and long press on the "+" icon to get a look at all of the tabs that you've recently closed.

Even if you're aware of the gesture, it's worth a reminder that this feature exists in case someone gets ahold of your phone and checks your browser. Even if you've closed out a tab, it's still going to be visible in Safari, unless you were using a private browser window or have cleared your browsing history.

Want to close your Safari tabs all in one go? That's another hidden feature available in Safari. Make sure to check out our accompanying how to for instructions.

Article Link: How to Open a Recently Closed Tab in Safari on Your iOS Device

 

[scrapesleon]

Nice didn’t know about this

 

[BMcCoy]

Cool tip - i’ll use that.
Thanks.

 

[kdarling]

Handy. I've accidentally closed tabs before.

 

[lazyrighteye]

Moving from a 6 to the X, these long press-based tips are proving handy, for this guy.
Thanks MR!

 

[Xavier]

I found this one after the last "how to close all safari taps" video. Very useful!

 

[scottcampbell]

Which iOS version was this introduced in?

 

[belvdr]

The tab history also clears if you kill Safari (i.e by double clicking the home button).

 

[itsmilo]

Lol I had no idea! But iOS is so intuitive, you can even press things out of nowhere on a 3D Touch-less device!

 

[bpp85]

Cool! I didn’t know this
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I found this one after the last "how to close all safari taps" video. Very useful!

I missed that one! How do I do that?

 

[C DM]

Lol I had no idea! But iOS is so intuitive, you can even press things out of nowhere on a 3D Touch-less device!

It's basically long-press that has been around for a long time.
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Cool! I didn’t know this
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I missed that one! How do I do that?

How to Close All of Your Safari Tabs at Once on iPhone or iPad

 

[ignatius345]

On a Mac, using Safari you can also either click and hold the + icon at the right of your tabs, or just quickly press ⌘⇧T to open your last-closed tab.

In fact, you can keep hitting that combo and it will keep opening other recently-closed tabs.

 

[C DM]

On a Mac, using Safari you can also either click and hold the + icon at the right of your tabs, or just quickly press ⌘⇧T to open your last-closed tab.

In fact, you can keep hitting that combo and it will keep opening other recently-closed tabs.

If I recall correctly, an even simpler ⌘Z (as in essentially "undo") will do the same thing basically.

 

[ignatius345]

If I recall correctly, an even simpler ⌘Z (as in essentially "undo") will do the same thing basically.

Whoa, just tried it, nice tip!

Just tried ⌘Z with my spilled coffee and sad to say it still hasn't been implemented in reality.

 

[miniyou64]

The how to close all tabs was pretty useless to me but this is actually a really helpful tip. Thank you MacRumors

 

[mazz0]

The tab history also clears if you kill Safari (i.e by double clicking the home button).

Double clicking the what?

 

[psac]

Double clicking the what?

The X looks so bizarre in the video without a home button. I'm so not used to that. And it's like, "dude, who stole your bezels?"