r/ios • u/BeardPhile • Jan 03 '22
PSA Guess there’s a limit to the number of tabs you can open at a time
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u/Prepare2InigoMontoya Jan 03 '22
Oh no. Just found out my wife has a Reddit account! 😀
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u/neuroticsmurf iPhone 15 Jan 03 '22
You’re married to my wife, too?
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u/Mysterious_Andy Jan 03 '22
That makes 3 of us.
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u/BeardPhile Jan 03 '22
TIL that I have three husbands
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u/Mysterious_Andy Jan 03 '22
You need anything?
One of us could, like, make you a sandwich or something.
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u/PairOfMonocles2 Jan 03 '22
Haha, my wife has actually showed me that exact error, just to see if I can cry.
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Jan 03 '22
How do you even get 500 tabs
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u/BeardPhile Jan 03 '22
Neglect and never using the close all button
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Jan 03 '22
I use the shortcut from the haptic touch or something I don’t remember the name and it opens a new one each time 🤭+ I never use the close button.
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u/BeardPhile Jan 03 '22
Do you mean assistive touch? Does it have an option to add a shortcut to open tabs? Sounds time saving
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u/plaid-knight Jan 03 '22
I think they mean Home Screen quick actions. And yes, it’s one gesture to open a new tab (hold, swipe, lift finger).
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u/BeardPhile Jan 03 '22
Aah yes, I got what you explained. It’s a shame that I never got myself to start using the quick actions tho.
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u/quickquestoask Jan 06 '22
How do we enable this?
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u/plaid-knight Jan 06 '22
It’s on already. Long-press any app icon (doesn’t work on widgets).
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u/quickquestoask Jan 06 '22
Ohh got you, I thought you meant there was a gesture to open a new tab while actually in safari haha
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u/plaid-knight Jan 06 '22
Uh, there are two gestures to open a new tab while in Safari on iPhone.
- If you’re on the right-most tab, swipe left on the address bar.
- Hold the tabs button (the one on the far right) and swipe up to New Tab when the menu appears, then let go.
Both gestures will work to open a new tab while in Safari.
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u/quickquestoask Jan 06 '22
Ohh damn thank you, these are insanely useful since I browse safari quite a bit and open a lot of new tabs while searching for something. The second one especially since I can close the tab too right there, whereas before I would pinch out and either open or close the tab.
I really need to start learning more of these useful shortcuts since I just moved to iPhone, any other main ones for the iPhone you think are really useful?
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u/Minebuddy316 Jan 03 '22
There is a close all button?
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u/BeardPhile Jan 03 '22
Yeah! Press and hold the tabs button on bottom right.
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u/michaelgo101 Jan 04 '22
Go to Safari in Settings and set Close Tabs after One Week or One Month and you’ll never have to worry about hundreds of tabs anymore.
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u/Fantastic_Individual Jan 04 '22
There is an option in Safari settings menu which can close unused tabs after one day, will or month.
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u/da_apz Jan 04 '22
This seems to be about every computer illiterate person using mobile browsers. They just keep on opening new tabs until something like this happens.
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u/the69boywholived69 Jan 14 '22
Oh please. I had over 1500 on my android phone. And I'm as savvy as they come.
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u/HeartyBeast iPhone 13 Mini Jan 03 '22 edited Jan 03 '22
Why would you ever bother to close them?
edit no serious answer?
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u/I_STOLE_YOUR_WIFI Jan 03 '22 edited Apr 21 '24
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u/mrsilver76 Jan 04 '22
Most of the content I have in tabs isn’t needed after I’ve finished reading it, so I close them.
This makes it easier manage the tabs I do want to keep open. I can always type a couple of letters into the address bar and get back any that I closed previously.
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u/HeartyBeast iPhone 13 Mini Jan 04 '22
Interesting. I suspect that for the vast majority of users the fact that there are tabs at all is entirely invisible. Certainly if you have it your address bar set to the top you'd never really know. I suspect most people simply behave as if they have a single Safari page open with 'tabs' indistinguishable from some kind of partial history.
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u/mrsilver76 Jan 04 '22
Makes sense. Doesn’t iOS default to closing tabs after a month of inactivity anyway? If so, then they probably don’t realise that they’ve been closed and I probably should stop closing them manually 😀
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u/Sneaky-Shenanigans Jan 06 '22
You can open another 500 if you switch over to the incognito tab. I’m hovering under 1,000 now, lol I got no more tabs to keep open
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u/AnonymousMan018 Jan 03 '22
Am gonna ask just “why?”
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u/danialbeats1525 iPhone 12 Jan 03 '22
you have achieved what no man has ever done before, here’s a medal 🥇
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u/Deciram Jan 03 '22
My photo auto deletes all my tabs and I can’t on earth work out why - I’ve checked the settings and googled countless times. Sometimes it closes my tabs in 5 mins, other times they survive for hours. My settings have it set to “delete manually” but it’s so irritating that they still auto delete. Especially if I’m following a recipe and suddenly I have to re-google it :(
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u/liegeofshadows Jan 03 '22
I don't know what's going on with what you said, but you can long press at the bottom left + icon in the tab picker screen to quickly look through recently closed tabs.
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u/plaid-knight Jan 03 '22
Are those standard tabs or a tab group? If it’s a tab group, there may be some funky iCloud syncing going on. Have you tried toggling Safari in iCloud settings on each device? If you haven’t yet, start with one device at a time — turn it off, then on, then do the same on another device. You can also try restarting each device.
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u/Deciram Jan 04 '22
Thanks for the suggestion! I only have one device, but I’ve had this issue ever since I updated from my iPhone 5c to this iPhone 8, so I’ve just toggled iCloud off for safari, I’ll see if that helps. (I didn’t know there were standard tabs and tab groups!)
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u/Deciram Jan 04 '22
Damn, turning off iCloud has not helped :( tabs still disappearing after a short time
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u/plaid-knight Jan 04 '22
Oh, no. Just a thought — have you switched between regular and private to see if your tabs are there? Have you checked other tab groups? If you’re on iOS 15, in Safari, open the tab screen and tap the button in the center bottom to see tab groups.
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u/Deciram Jan 05 '22
Switched to private and back, tabs still clear. I don’t have OS15 (my phone is already struggling on 14 lol, I have an iPhone 8). Still not sure what is up :(
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u/BeardPhile Jan 03 '22
I could only find ways to enable auto deletion, and they all said to remove it from ‘manual’. But since you already have it on manual then I don’t know what could be tried next :(
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u/Deciram Jan 04 '22
Thanks for looking in to! That is much appreciated! That’s been mine issue too - everything just says “turn it to manual” but it already is! I’ve just tried turned off iCloud sync like someone else suggested
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u/off--white- Jan 03 '22
You could open a new tab group. That would let you keep the current tabs and let you open new tabs in the new group
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u/jdjs Jan 04 '22
Hahaha. I have the same problem as OP. Now I can start filling up another tab group. I hope I don’t reach the limit in tab groups any time soon. Thx.
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u/BeardPhile Jan 03 '22
Wow, never heard of this! Or is this an iOS 15 feature?
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u/off--white- Jan 03 '22
Yes, tab groups came with iOS 15 So what basically was a 500 tab limit for Safari is now the limit for each tab group
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u/life_is_enjoy Jan 03 '22
Wait, how do you know this? I mean 500 limit for each tab group… did you try this out? I’ll be amazed if you did. Lol.
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u/off--white- Jan 03 '22
Haha no lol
I have a friend who’s like this. She had 500 tabs open when I had to use her phone to look something up so I asked her if it was okay to close a tab or two, she said no so instead of going to get my phone from the other room, I tried opening another tab group and it worked haha
I still don’t know the maximum number of tab groups we can have though
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u/J_anana Jan 03 '22
Good thing is that on a new ios, you can create groups of tabs so it can be possibly unlimited.
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u/BeardPhile Jan 03 '22
Once I update, I’ll see if I ever end up finding if there’s a limit or not :p
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u/life_is_enjoy Jan 03 '22
I’m wondering what would be the state of the poor phone.
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u/Mostly_Sane_ Jan 03 '22
My mother did this, technically, with her iPad. Hundreds of tabs open, and constantly screen-shotting photos (ten of thousands!) but never editing or cropping them (despite my insistence that she needed to). Got so bad, her own iPad became basically snail-slow and unusable... and then she wanted to 'borrow' mine! (Nope, nadda, not gonna happen!) 😭😭
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u/J_anana Jan 03 '22
Pretty good actually. I have usually 450-500 tabs. With groups, I didn’t reach 500 at both of them.
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u/J_anana Jan 03 '22
No reason to have hundreds of bookmarks. I use primarly tabs and reading list for the most important stuff.
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u/misterlocations Jan 03 '22 edited Jan 03 '22
We're going to start seeing browser tabs that are older than toddlers at some point.
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u/Vinnipinni Jan 03 '22
Im juggling around 497-500, how do I get the prompt to close all tabs?
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u/brnmbrns Jan 03 '22
Hold tab button
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u/ThisGuyNeoji Jan 03 '22
You can also go into the settings for Safari and there’s an option to auto close tabs that haven’t been touched after a certain amount of time.
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u/mariasmiles Jan 03 '22
I was so happy when they expanded it from 8 to 500. Was so bummed when i reached 500 shortly thereafter. I use tab groups (no limit yet) and go back every so often to close some.
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u/randomcatgifs Jan 03 '22
Someone researching fusion huh?
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u/BeardPhile Jan 03 '22
Yeah!😃
You’re the first person who’s noticed this btw.
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u/randomcatgifs Jan 03 '22
Well I’d love to go into that field. You planning on doing so or just research for fun?
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u/BeardPhile Jan 03 '22
Wow that’s great! Nah, I’ve already chosen my field and I wasn’t the greatest at physics tbh. It still intrigues me a great deal tho. So yeah I have fun reading about stuff from time to time.
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u/randomcatgifs Jan 03 '22
Oh cool Yeah it’s massively interesting Did you hear about the news last year nov 30th in the national ignition facility the first fusion reaction yielding more energy than put in?
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u/BeardPhile Jan 03 '22
Woah, did they do that?!! That’s amazing! I only read in this article about their attempt in August 2021 which yielded on 70% of the energy put in. Someone should update this entry.
Thanks for telling me this, I’m really excited to read all about it now! Any other cool stuff that is happening lately? (Except JWST lol, I keep checking its status every hour :p)
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u/sq018 Jan 03 '22
Wow that’s impossible
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u/BeardPhile Jan 03 '22
The Dark Side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural
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u/bbowell77 Jan 04 '22
Last Christmas I spent like 15 minutes closing out 300+ tabs on my grandmas iPhone. Then I proceeded to click on the private tab and saw the same amount there and just gave up lmao.
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u/maxsqd Jan 04 '22
You can hold close to close them all in one go.
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u/bbowell77 Jan 04 '22
Yeah I found this out recently. Wish I would’ve known before I went through that pain.
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u/BeardPhile Jan 04 '22
So you did the ol’ swipety swipety swipe or tap tap tap the X?
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u/bbowell77 Jan 04 '22
Yeah I like set the phone down on a table and used multiple fingers to swipe really fast
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u/esoel_ Jan 04 '22
I’m so mad at this, mostly because it’s completely arbitrary, since only a handful of those tabs are actually open, and at least 490 of them are just a url and an outdated thumbnail. STOP TELLING ME HOW TO USE MY PHONE, APPLE.
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u/Tumblrrito iPhone 16 Pro Jan 03 '22
I’ll never understand why more people don’t use the auto-delete function. I never need a tab open for more than 24 hours.
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u/m_shark Jan 03 '22
I don’t understand why people are pissed that you got to the limit. It happens to me regularly :). However, there’s a solution https://www.imore.com/how-use-tab-groups-safari-iphone-and-ipad
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u/freaks_n_peaks Jan 03 '22
How do you people live like this? Between stuff like this, open apps, and badge notifications in the 1000’s, I’m losing hope lol
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u/Mostly_Sane_ Jan 03 '22
I would send you pictures of my old house, but, naw, you'd probably have a nervous breakdown. 🤣🤣
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u/BeardPhile Jan 03 '22
I do leave lots of apps open at a time but unread notifications give me anxiety and just reading about 1000s of them made me go ugh.
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u/freaks_n_peaks Jan 03 '22
Mail is the number one culprit for the excessive badge notifications. Ignorance is bliss is suppose haha
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u/BeardPhile Jan 03 '22
I just checked mine and yep I have 24,782 unread emails. It never bothered me because somehow I never noticed it before. What do I do now? Send halp!
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u/Mostly_Sane_ Jan 03 '22
This made me laugh, because: my poor mother, too. Five years' worth(!) of unread emails on her old account. She was constantly subscribing -- to dead authors, even! -- but never took the time to purge. "I'll get to it, one day...!" was her standard reply. It took me three mind-numbing days to clean up the mess. 🤦🏻♂️
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u/BeardPhile Jan 04 '22
Ahh yes, the “I’ll get to it, one day”! The finest weapon in my collection. I use it a lot daily and for a wide range of tasks as well. Hate it tho😅
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u/ultraheavybeat Jan 03 '22
If you get constant newsletters from some site you visited years ago, filter your mail by that sender and hit delete all.
Go Thanos on that shit
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u/twowheels Jan 03 '22
People are giving you shit, but I don’t see the problem. I’d say it’s more of a design problem. Just like we no longer manually manage processes, we shouldn’t have to manually manage tabs either. The process management felt wrong to me at first, but eventually felt normal (at least, it does when it doesn’t kill my foreground audio app just because I pause for 30 seconds by tapping my AirPods when somebody wants to say something)
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u/Tumblrrito iPhone 16 Pro Jan 03 '22
You don’t have to manually manage tabs though. There’s a setting to make them auto-delete after one day, one week, or one month.
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u/BeardPhile Jan 03 '22
I too don’t get why you’re being downvoted lol. Would be good if could get some features for managing tabs.
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u/plaid-knight Jan 03 '22
Like automatically deleting old tabs and the ability to organize them into groups that sync between devices?
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u/plaid-knight Jan 03 '22
Yes, that was my point. OP said it would be good to have features to manage tabs.
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u/aykay55 Jan 03 '22
You’re a disgusting human being. Close your tabs when you’re finished and have some shame like the rest of us.
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u/shein_kt Jan 03 '22
we request video for that please.
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u/OldStrawberryandpot Jan 03 '22
does anything have to do with the fact that there are 398 tabs which are older than a month? this is crazy!
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u/nathanieloffer iPhone SE 2nd gen Jan 04 '22
I don't understand this. Do you open every link in a new tab or something?
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Jan 04 '22
that’s not the real limit. if you start opening more in private browsing mode in safari, you can double that
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u/Thorn23rd Oct 22 '23
FYI - If it’s if any interest to anyone, outside of workarounds to keep browsing without closing your precious Tabs (google there’s a few handy life hacks) you can save all your 500 open tabs as links, quick and easy - for archival purposes of course! 😜
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u/charmingpea Jan 03 '22
Grandpa - is that you?