How to automatically close old Safari tabs - Choose when to close all tabs

Opening a lot of tabs on Safari, especially tabs running in the background, will consume system resources and drain the iPhone battery. Especially when you set Safari to open all links in new tabs, users may forget which tabs they opened. Safari has a feature that automatically closes all old tabs that are open after a certain period of time, reducing the amount of space Safari uses. Here are instructions for automatically closing old tabs in Safari

How to automatically close old tabs on Safari iPhone

Step 1:

Users access the Settings application on the iPhone then tap on the Safari application to adjust. Switch to the browser settings interface, users tap on the Close tabs setting to adjust.

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Step 2:

Then the user proceeds to select the time to automatically close old tabs on Safari with the time according to the list below. You choose the time for Safari to automatically close old tabs after a period of inactivity.

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Instructions to automatically close old tabs on Safari Mac

On your Mac, click on Safari and then select Settings. Switch to the new user interface, click on Tabs and look down below, in the Automatically close tabs section, we choose the time we want to automatically close old tabs on Safari Mac.

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Lesley Montoya

Update 17 December 2024

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