How To Close All Your Safari Tabs At Once On IPhone

Do you have hundreds of open tabs in Safari on your iPhone? Stop closing them one-by-one and do this instead.

There are two types of iPhone users: those that religiously close out their Safari tabs and those that have hundreds of tabs open at any given moment. At some point, there comes a time when you need to clear out all of your open Safari tabs and declutter your browsing experience. It can be a pain to close out every single tab individually, but luckily you don’t have to. In iOS 17, there’s a hidden button that’ll let you close out all the tabs in a given Tab Group simultaneously. If you’ve been manually closing out tabs, you need to learn this crucial iPhone trick for Safari.

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How to close tabs in Safari on iPhone

Recent versions of Safari split up tabs into Tab Groups, and this is something to keep in mind when trying to clear all your tabs. All iPhone users will have at least two Tab Groups: Start Page and Private. If you’ve created custom Tab Groups — either on your iPhone or on a device synced with iCloud — you’ll have to repeat the steps below for each Tab Group.

Open Safari on your iPhone.
Tap the Tabs button in the bottom right corner of the toolbar (it looks like two squares stacked on one another).
Press the X button to close an individual tab.
Hold the Done button and press Close all tabs to clear all your tabs simultaneously.
Repeat the process as needed throughout your Tab Groups in Safari on iOS.

Why you should clear Safari tabs regularly

Safari won’t let you open more than 500 tabs in a single Tab Group, so all iPhone users will have to close out old tabs eventually. However, there’s a case to be made for closing Safari tabs far more frequently than that. Having minimal Safari tabs in a Tab Group can make it easier to go back and forth between the ones you really need. Plus, you may notice a slight performance benefit to running Safari with fewer tabs, although it isn’t as big of a deal on the newest iPhones. Still, it’s a pain to close out Safari tabs on iPhone individually, so using the hidden Close all tabs button is incredibly helpful.

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