5 Ways to Recover Your Safari Tabs After Restarting Your Mac
Safari offers an excellent browsing experience: it is energy efficient, works seamlessly on every Apple device, and is great at protecting your privacy. However, there is one pesky flaw you may have noticed.
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So if you’ve been wondering how to restart your Mac without losing your Safari tabs, here are some quick fixes you could try.
1. Pin the Tabs in Safari
If you almost always use a certain website, you can pin that tab to your Safari browser. When you pin a tab, or multiple tabs, you don’t have to open them manually or worry about losing them each time you close and relaunch your browser.
When you open Safari, pinned tabs appear immediately, ready for you to access them. And even when you open a new Safari window, you never have to worry about losing your tabs. Every tab you’ve pinned appears the same on every window, so you don’t need to worry about having different versions of the same tab on multiple windows.
Pinning a tab is not difficult. Just follow these steps:
Alternatively, you’re able to place your cursor on the tab you’d like to pin and drag it to the left until the tab shrinks to the size of the website’s logo.
There appears to be no limit on how many tabs you can pin on Safari at once. We tested up to 25. However, whatever the number you have, you should learnhow to manage your pinned tabs in Safari.
2. Customize Safari’s Settings
You may not have favorite tabs to pin. And having so many tabs permanently pinned to your Safari windows might be too much clutter for you. However, if you’d prefer to resume right where you left off whenever you open Safari, there’s another simple fix in the settings.
To customize Safari’s settings:
Once you’ve completed these steps, re-launch Safari. Once you open Safari, it should open the tabs from your previous browsing session.
3. Use Safari’s New Tab Button
The first two fixes are preventive strategies. If you implement them before restarting your Mac, they can prevent you from losing your tabs once you relaunch Safari. However, you may have restarted your Mac without implementing either strategy. In that case, you still don’t have to worry about losing your tabs because you can use Safari’sNew Taboption as a corrective strategy.
You may think Safari’sNew Tabicon has only one purpose: to create a new tab. But it can also help you recover your recently closed tabs. Just look at the toolbar and Control-click on theNew Tabicon, which looks like aplus (+). A list ofRecently Closed Tabsshould appear, so you can select the one you’d like to recover.
4. Use the Undo or Reopen Action
After restarting your Mac and launching Safari, you may decide to close some tabs you no longer need. If they are a lot, you might get carried away with the monotonous task of clickingCloseand accidentally closing a tab you still need.
A quick fix that can help you correct that mistake is the Undo menu or keyboard shortcut. Rather than panic when you’ve closed a tab or fumble with your settings, use the Undo action. It is pretty straightforward. Just follow these two steps.
Look to the top-left corner of your screen and selectEditfrom the options. A dialog box should appear with a list of options; clickUndo Close Tab.
A quicker fix is the keyboard shortcut. To open the last tab you just closed, press this combination of keys:Shift + Cmd + Tto reopen your last closed tab.
If you closed more than one tab, repeat the sequence for as many tabs as you’d like to restore. OurSafari shortcuts cheat sheetcontains more keyboard shortcuts you may try on your Mac.
5. Reopen Tabs Using Your Safari History
You may have accidentally closed a window, or there may be simply too many tabs to keep pressing the combination of keys we mentioned earlier. Don’t sweat it. Launch Safari and do the following. To view your history:
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Losing a tab may be frustrating, but it shouldn’t affect your productivity too much. With these quick fixes, you can ensure you never lose a tab on Safari if you restart your Mac. And when you close an important tab by mistake, you can always recover it.
Safari offers a brilliant browsing experience, arguably better than many other browsers, like Chrome. The experience becomes even smoother once you learn some essential Safari tricks and tips and implement them on your Mac.
If Safari is running slow, try these top tips to get your Mac browser blazing fast again.
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