Have you accidentally closed a Safari tab on your iPhone? Don’t worry, there’s a very simple way to quickly reopen the tab.
The easiest way to open a Safari tab
Many people generally don’t have just one Safari tab open on their iPhone, but perhaps dozens. Every now and then they clean up by closing the tabs they no longer need. And then of course it can happen that you accidentally close a tab that you didn’t want to close at all.
Sometimes that is not a big problem, but it also happens that you can no longer easily find the website that you opened in the Safari tab. Through the browsing history of Safari It often works, but it is not really an easy way. It can be much simpler.
You have two options
You can recover an accidentally closed Safari tab in two ways. One way is just a lot faster than the other. To get started, you can pull up a list of recently closed tabs. You do this by tapping the tab icon at the bottom right and then pressing and holding the plus sign at the bottom left. The recently closed tabs will now appear.
That goes quite quickly once you get the hang of it. The other way is even faster if possible. All you have to do when you accidentally close a Safari tab is shake your iPhone once. The following message will then appear: ‘Restore ‘Close tab’. Tap ‘Restore’ and your tab will be back!
This ‘undo’ feature by shaking your iPhone doesn’t only work when you close a Safari tab. You can also use the function when you make a typo. The ‘Recovery by shaking’ function must of course be enabled. You can check this in the following way:
- Open the Settings app;
- Tap ‘Accessibility’ then ‘Touch’;
- Make sure Shake Recovery is turned on.
If you unintentionally shake your iPhone too often and you find the function not useful, you can easily switch it off in the same way.
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