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iPad Pro Just lost 30 Safari tabs. Disappeared.

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mebehere

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No long pressing on any of the icons gets them back. The merge option isn’t there. Merge has been there in the past, but not this time. I’ve experienced this before on many different iOS versions and it really pisses me off.

I almost feel like I need to bookmark everything as I go, but that’s just stupid.

Stupid crap. Makes me mad.
 
Yes. i have to create tab groups from time to time just to keep all my tabs intact and survive the transfer from device to device. I lost 480 tabs on my iPhone thanks to one safari crash.
Stupid and unbelievable. Safari is NOT “the most advanced browser“ at all and will likely never be.
 
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This hasnt happened to my 12.9 M1 since update to iPadOS 16.
Previously it was major pita for a long time.
 
MrAperture said:
I don't get why you have so many tabs open. Especially on such a RAM constricted device such as an iOS tablet/phone.

Just bookmark.
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The way I look at it, if the device allows me to have 30 tabs open, those tabs shouldn’t disappear for any reason. I don’t particularly like bookmarks. I use them, but I forget about them. I use tabs to quickly glance at things I might wanna look at later or quickly close out the ones I’m no longer interested in.
 
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I lost 2 tabs recently. Disabling and then re-enabling Safari in the iPad's iCloud settings (without merge) brought them back. Not sure if this is what you meant with the merge option not being there.
 
Richard8655 said:
I lost 2 tabs recently. Disabling and then re-enabling Safari in the iPad's iCloud settings (without merge) brought them back. Not sure if this is what you meant with the merge option not being there.
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Glad this worked for you. I’m afraid to disable this. There’s no description as to what it does.
 
mebehere said:
The way I look at it, if the device allows me to have 30 tabs open, those tabs shouldn’t disappear for any reason. I don’t particularly like bookmarks. I use them, but I forget about them. I use tabs to quickly glance at things I might wanna look at later or quickly close out the ones I’m no longer interested in.
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I can have 100 tabs open on a 2GB RAM iPad. However, it's unrealistic to expect it to run as stable/smoothly as the 16GB RAM iPad. Out of memory crashes are pretty much inevitable with just 2GB RAM.

I've had the same happen on Windows (both Chrome and Firefox) when I had pagefile set too low.
 
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rui no onna said:
I can have 100 tabs open on a 2GB RAM iPad. However, it's unrealistic to expect it to run as stable/smoothly as the 16GB RAM iPad. Out of memory crashes are pretty much inevitable with just 2GB RAM.

I've had the same happen on Windows (both Chrome and Firefox) when I had pagefile set too low.
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My iPad Pro has 6GB of RAM.
 
what about creating and using a single tab group from now on? And then you operate just in that single tab group - new tabs will be added, tabs you close removed… besides the single activity to create it, you surf like before - with the benefit that all tabs are safe. 🤓
 
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Slartibart said:
what about creating and using a single tab group from now on? And then you operate just in that single tab group - new tabs will be added, tabs you close removed… besides the single activity to create it, you surf like before - with the benefit that all tabs are safe. 🤓
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That may work now that I see that setting. But at the end of the day, all the workarounds shouldn’t be necessary. Apple gives me simple tabs and then simply takes them away.

It’s a flawed feature that can’t be trusted. I don’t want to overthink having tabs open. Tabs are tabs. They shouldn’t all just close for no reason.
 
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mebehere said:
That may work now that I see that setting. But at the end of the day, all the workarounds shouldn’t be necessary. Apple gives me simple tabs and then simply takes them away.

It’s a flawed feature that can’t be trusted. I don’t want to overthink having tabs open. Tabs are tabs. They shouldn’t all just close for no reason.
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maybe I view the whole related functionality wrong (?): open a website in a tab is IMHO equal to load e.g. a data set into RAM to process it there with some program.
If I quit said program the related data will be gone from RAM - I am actually surprised
how well Safari on iOS/iPadOS auto-saves the currently-open-tabs-state, albeit apparently temporarily:
I mean if you update e.g. the OS, nobody will be surprised if on opening the included updated Safari the last open websites/tabs are gone, won’t they? Similar if e.g. Safari crashes.
Amazingly most of the time it seems to save the state anyhow. Still one can only passively trust that this happens. Personally I do not, YMMV.
To be clear: it‘s a pity to loose data under any circumstances.
 
antiprotest said:
The tabs do not appear in history?
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The tabs were opened over the course of weeks to months. So I’m sure they are or were in history at some point. I don’t understand the point of the question. The software messed up a simple function. Which was to keep the tabs open until I closed them.
 
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mebehere said:
The tabs were opened over the course of weeks to months. So I’m sure they are or were in history at some point. I don’t understand the point of the question. The software messed up a simple function. Which was to keep the tabs open until I closed them.
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The point of the question was to ascertain whether Apple messed up the history too, not to blame you for anything. Relax.
 
antiprotest said:
The point of the question was to ascertain whether Apple messed up the history too, not to blame you for anything. Relax.
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It‘s all good. It’s not a life or death situation. But I have so much history, it would be impossible for me to really know. For example, if the first few (or many) tabs were opened a month ago, they’d be so buried in the history I’d never be able to find them.
 
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I’m getting weird notifications about some of my posts being deleted in this thread due to some kind of moderator issue.

I’d like to ask that the thread be closed or deleted or something. I don’t want any trouble here.
 
rui no onna said:
I can have 100 tabs open on a 2GB RAM iPad. However, it's unrealistic to expect it to run as stable/smoothly as the 16GB RAM iPad. Out of memory crashes are pretty much inevitable with just 2GB RAM.

I've had the same happen on Windows (both Chrome and Firefox) when I had pagefile set too low.
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I’ve used a 2GB RAM iPad on its original iOS version (9), and a little updated (iOS 12). Web browsing in terms of reloads has gotten infinitely better on my 8GB RAM iPad Air 5. Software efficiency in this case cannot counteract four times the RAM, the benefit is palpable.
 
I hope your thread isn't closed as I've found your sharing your experience very useful. I haven't seen any offensive comments so I'd be surprised if there was any moderator concern.

I thought I'd add if there's an Apple Store nearby, it might be worth to get a free consultation. They've got a variety of software restoration tools and might have some insight on why it happened in the first place.
 
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Shirasaki said:
Yes. i have to create tab groups from time to time just to keep all my tabs intact and survive the transfer from device to device. I lost 480 tabs on my iPhone thanks to one safari crash.
Stupid and unbelievable. Safari is NOT “the most advanced browser“ at all and will likely never be.
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Genuine Q: why did you have 480 tabs open in the first place?
 
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mebehere said:
I’m getting weird notifications about some of my posts being deleted in this thread due to some kind of moderator issue.

I’d like to ask that the thread be closed or deleted or something. I don’t want any trouble here.
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Calm down, there was rather impolite poster here to whom you replied couple of times, as far as I see those are the only posts that are gone, his useless remarks and your answers to those(it's usually that all reply messages to someone being in violation of policies get removed as well to clean up discussion). Imho you're safe.

And btw - if you have concerns or are unsure better ask moderators team, they will tell you what's up.
 
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