Safari Reopen Last Closed Window doesn't work anymore

[late show]

Hello,

I've been trying to figure this out, but am stumped and googled out.

Safari>History> Reopen Last Closed Window

doesn't work anymore, when I select this from the drop down nothing happens, except that I notice under the window drop down an "untitled" page is created but does not open, when its selected from the window menu the a blank untitled page opens. Every time I try "reopen last closed window" a untitled page is created under the window menu, but not the recently closed web page.


I uninstalled extensions, cleared history, yada, yada...any ideas on what's going on here?

Safari 15.1
Os 12.0.1
Intel machine

 

[adh1003]

Bump on this. Safari 15.<anything> - history has been and remains a disaster. "Reopen" just doesn't work. Session restoration upon reboot, however, still seems fine and I can *usually* reopen a last-closed tab via keyboard shortcuts. But opening last-closed windows? Forget it.

I, too, have found nothing useful via Google and this thread is the only one I've found so far that describes the exact same issue. This is occurring on _every single device_ I have that's on Monterey (between home and work, that's 3 different computers of wildly varying age and specification, all updated from Catalina).

To the OP - if you have recently closed the window by e.g. accident, you can find another window and try using the 'reopen last closed _tab_' shortcut (Cmd+Shift+T) from there a few times. This might open a few old tabs first but often then opens the closed window, too. Safari 15 seems to have a bizarre cross-window tab history and, presumably, this change is where Apple's hapless engineers managed to yet again break something that's worked forever and will now, probably, never get fixed :-/

 

[late show]

Hello!

I fixed my issue by deleting certain files in the User> Library> Safari folder that got corrupted. Apple tech support walked me through which ones to delete, I didn't write them down (sorry). Worth a phone call to them for the help as it sounds like your issue might be more related to iCloud if your other devices are affected.