How to Share Safari Tab Groups in macOS

[MacRumors]

In macOS, Apple allows you to share Tab Groups in Safari with colleagues, friends, and family. Keep reading to learn how it's done.

Introduced back in macOS Monterey, Tab Groups are designed to make organizing and preserving open tabs more manageable in Safari without having to have those tabs active.

In a Tab Group, you can easily collect and save related tabs, which can be especially advantageous in scenarios where collaboration and coordination are key. For instance, teams working on research projects can compile relevant sources into a shared group, allowing everyone to stay aligned and contribute in real time.

Families planning a vacation can gather booking sites, maps, and activity pages in one place, making it easy to explore options together. Even casual browsing, like curating gift ideas or event plans with friends, can benefit from this feature, turning scattered links into a centralized, living workspace. Here's how it's done.

1. To share a currently open Tab Group in Safari, reveal Safari's sidebar by clicking the Show sidebar button.
   
   
   
   Right-click the Tab Group or click the ellipsis button (three encircled dots) next to the Tab Group in the list and select Share Tab Group from the contextual menu.
   
   
   
   Choose the desired sharing method from the Share Sheet menu that appears. Selecting Mail or Messages, for example, will open the associated app with a link to the Tab Group, ready to be sent.

Once you've sent an invite, you can see who has access to the Tab Group by clicking the user profile icon that appears on the right-hand side of Safari's address bar.

From there, you can manage access to the Tab Group: you can revoke access, add new people, or call and message them to chat about the project. Note that everyone you collaborate with must be signed in to their Apple Account, have Safari turned on in iCloud settings, and have two-factor authentication turned on.

If you're on iPhone and iPad, here's how to share Tab Groups: Tap the open tabs button in the bottom-right corner of the screen (the two squares overlapping), then tap the Share icon (the square with the arrow pointing out). Tap Messages, then choose the person that you want to share the group with.

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[SDJim]

These are the kind of little usability features that always made MacOS great. I hope this practice continues and we get ever evolving functionality like this.

 

[SkimPappa]

I submitted that a while back for a feature request. Heck yes!

 

[Puiz]

Can someone explain what tab groups are for? Or profiles in Safari for that matter? I can separate open windows by profile and by group, and that enables me to do… what exactly? 🤔 Never found a use case for either. What am I missing?

 

[svish]

Nice article. Very useful feature to easily share multiple Tabs. Will definitely come in handy in the future.

 

[Popple]

Can someone explain what tab groups are for? Or profiles in Safari for that matter? I can separate open windows by profile and by group, and that enables me to do… what exactly? 🤔 Never found a use case for either. What am I missing?

I use profiles to have a Personal profile and a Work profile. Helps keep cookies and all other things like that separate. I'm no longer in school (thank goodness) but I know a lot of people also have a School profile for the same reason. Profiles can be helpful if you want to log into multiple accounts on the same service at the same time since cookies and browsing info is all kept separate. Let's say you have an Office365 account for work and also one for school. You can keep the login cookies separated by profiles so you don't have to log out and log back in and keep swapping accounts. Yes, many online services allow you to quickly swap between accounts these days so it's not quite as cumbersome as it used to be but the profiles can still make things easier.

Within my Personal profile I use tab groups more like other people would use a bookmarking service (Pocket, Raindrop.io, etc). I have tab groups for quick access to sites I use frequently. Some of my tab groups are: "To Read" (self-explanatory), "Comics" (links to comic shops and online comic forums), "Finance" (bank/credit card/investments), "Web Dev" (various links as I troubleshoot building my personal website), "Job Search" (self-explanatory), and more.

Within my Work profile I use tab groups to keep projects separate. I'm a software developer so I have lots of projects going on at once. Each tab group typically represents a project with dozens of different tabs for tickets, code links, online documentation, searches, etc.

Does this work for me? Yes, very much so. Are you missing something? Maybe not. If you're able to manage your web browsing effectively and don't have any pain points that would be solved by either profiles or tab groups then who's to say you are doing anything wrong?