My Safari tabs often delete themselves

Hello, fogarty_t. I’m so glad to hear that you have the same problem. I mean that in the nicest possible way :-) I was beginning to think it was a fault on my iPhone, so it is reassuring to learn that someone else is having the same problem.

Missy5937 suggested that downloading iOS 15.06 might help. I did that, and my main tab group has been wiped three times since then, so that hasn’t solved the problem.

Two days ago I downloaded ios 15.06 on my iPad. Until then, I had not had the problem on my iPad, but yesterday the main tab group on my iPad was wiped. So at best iOS doesn’t help, and it is possible it makes things worse.

it seems to me that there is a bug somewhere in the tab group system that is responsible for this. Does anyone from apple read these posts to learn about recurring problems?

As for opening links in other sources, I have found t,hat, since the tab group system was introduced, clicking on the link often (but not always) takes me to the last tab I looked at. If I then go back to the source and click again on the link, it (always, up to now) works. So that is a minor issue, but also something that apple should fix.

Hello 1ssmith,

Thank you for your questions.

I have iOS 15.5. The problem only began after the latest update and only after I started using tab groups.

I cannot replicate the issue. It happens when I am in Safari, and I see it happening, but each time it has happened I have not been aware of anything that I have done to trigger it.

Up to now, it has only affected the tabs in Safari that have not been allocated to a group, in other words those in the collection identified as “n tabs”, where “n” is the number of tabs.

The first time it happened I had a lot of tabs open - over 100. Since then I have generally tried to transfer most tabs that I want to keep to tab groups, so only à few tabs have been affected. I think on one occasion there were 6, another time 2.

What is particularly annoying is that the lost tabs do not appear in my history, so, unless I remember what they were, I cannot recover them.

There is no error message. I am simply left each time with no tabs in the collection of tabs that have not been allocated to a group, and the identification “Start page” instead of “n tabs”. It changes to “1 tab” once there is an open tab.

Thanks for any advice that you can give.

Tim

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No, just normal Safari.

From your questions, I’m sort of getting the impression that I’m the only person experiencing this problem. I had assumed it was a bug in iOS 15,5. But perhaps not . ?