Tip: This way you can close all Safari tabs on your iPhone or iPad at once

Avid Safari users often have more tabs open than they actually need. With this quick tip, you can close all of these Safari tabs in one action.

All Safari tabs close on iOS

If you use Safari on your iPhone or iPad, the number of tabs you have open at one time can quickly increase unnoticed. This is because websites often open a new tab when you click on a link, which prevents the page from closing completely.

Unlike the Mac, in Safari on iOS, you can’t see how many tabs are open unless you tap the tab button. It often happens that you unnoticed dozens of websites open in the background, while you have not used them for days.

This way you close all Safari tabs at once

1. Open Safari on your iPhone or iPad;
2. Tap the icon with the two squares in the lower right corner of your screen;
3. Keep this icon pressed until a menu appears on the screen;
4. Choose ‘Close all tabs’ to close all active pages.

Although these websites do not use your iPhone memory (and the device does not slow down as a result), it makes little sense to leave all these pages open. It is therefore smarter to erase all of them every now and then and start with a clean slate.

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