Select multiple tabs in Safari?

[wills11]

I want to be able to select multiple tabs and move them to a different tab group. Running iOS and iPadOS 15.1 and cannot for the life of me figure out how to select them—ideally from the grid view.

This video shows what I want to do, and suggests it's possible:

https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSBeta/comments/nx8pn2

And I have some proof it's possible since I did manage to group (or at least pair) tabs in a stack in grid view on my iPad—once! But now cannot figure out how I did it—I held down (long-pressed) one tab, started moving it, and then (I think) with a second finger somehow "stacked" them.

Anyone know how to do this reliably?

TIA!

 

[voodoo709]

You should be able to do that by first selecting one of the tabs and start dragging it, you can then click the additional tabs you want and they will be added and grouped with the first tab. You can then open the new tab group and drop them there. The main thing is to ensure you are in drag mode before clicking the other tabs.

 

[wills11]

Amazing! It works perfectly on my iPad—thanks!

Oddly, I can stack them together on my iPhone as well, but the only way I'm able to move that stack to a different tab groupit is on iPad with the sidebar open, and on the iPhone I can't open it.

But it seems there must be some purpose to having the ability on the iPhone—is there some different trick as to moving multiple tabs between groups on the iPhone?

 

[voodoo709]

Amazing! It works perfectly on my iPad—thanks!

Oddly, I can stack them together on my iPhone as well, but the only way I'm able to move that stack to a different tab groupit is on iPad with the sidebar open, and on the iPhone I can't open it.

But it seems there must be some purpose to having the ability on the iPhone—is there some different trick as to moving multiple tabs between groups on the iPhone?

Never actually done it on the iPad using the side bar. That works better. On the iPhone when you have the grouped tabs you need to use your other finger to open the tab group where you want to place the tabs and then let go, not very elegant but does the job.

 

[wills11]

Never actually done it on the iPad using the side bar. That works better. On the iPhone when you have the grouped tabs you need to use your other finger to open the tab group where you want to place the tabs and then let go, not very elegant but does the job.

Ah! Thanks for that, too—I had been trying to drag-and-drop the stack on Tab Groups.

Has there ever been an iOS action that required two hands before? I certainly don't recall ever having to use both hands before.

 

[BigBlur]

Ah! Thanks for that, too—I had been trying to drag-and-drop the stack on Tab Groups.

Has there ever been an iOS action that required two hands before? I certainly don't recall ever having to use both hands before.

Yeah, two hands have been used before, but maybe more so on the iPad. It seems like they are bringing iPadOS multitasking actions to iOS now. Another thing you can do after you selected your tabs is you can even swipe up to close Safari, open another app, and place the tabs/links in there.

This isn’t limited to just tabs and Safari either. For example, you can drag an image from an email, Safari, etc. into Notes, Pages, or other app that accepts it.

 

[Sharcle]

You should be able to do that by first selecting one of the tabs and start dragging it, you can then click the additional tabs you want and they will be added and grouped with the first tab. You can then open the new tab group and drop them there. The main thing is to ensure you are in drag mode before clicking the other tabs.

This no longer working under iOS 15.5. Is there any workaround?

 

[Oneechan69]

@wills11 @voodoo709 I'm trying to get that working on my iPad but I can't. I made my own thread for it: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...lect-multiple-tabs-in-safari-on-ipad.2353404/. Can you guys take a look? Thanks.