How to prevent suddenly loosing all my tabs?

[maclad]

For the 3rd time since updating to 16.3.1 I have suddenly lost all my Safari tabs. It appears that after I touch the address bar when I have a number of tabs open, all the tabs, except the one that I am on, disappear! Today, I tried unsuccessfully to retrieve the tabs, then closed that tab and could not see a way to retrieve them.

Please help, this is so frustrating, what is going on, what did I do wrong, how do I stop this happening again, I have had an iPad for about 10 years and this has never happened previously!

Edit: added Safari.

 

[Bigwaff]

What browser are you using on your iPad?

 

[maclad]

What browser are you using on your iPad?

Safari

 

[Slartibart]

create a tab group is and one option…

 

[maclad]

create a tab group is and one option…

What do you mean, how do I create a tab group on an iPad and how will it help?

 

[Slartibart]

Here you find Apple‘s Info on tab groups. Basically: as long as you operate within a tab group all open tabs are automatically saved to it, newly opened added (and saved) - if e.g. Safari’s history for whatever reason is deleted and all open tabs closed, you just open the tab group and everything is there. 🤓

 

[okkibs]

You could try using another browser app like Chrome or Firefox, perhaps they handle it better - under the hood they use Safari.

 

[VaruLV]

Lost tabs today as well, had not happened to me since iPadOS 14 or 15.

Trillion dollar company, yet cant fix this common issue for years.