How to Never Lose a Safari Tab on Your IPhone Again
It only took a decade or so for Apple, but you can finally pin tabs in Safari on your iPhone and iPad. This feature was worth the wait: when you close all tabs, pinned tabs are not deleted. Basically, you can turn frequently visited websites into static web apps without adding them to your home screen.
Here’s how it works: open the page you want to pin, touch and hold the URL in the address bar, then choose the Pin tab option from the menu. You will also find this option by long-pressing a tab in the tab switcher. In any case, the site is now pinned.
Finding a pinned tab is a little trickier, as they just show up at the top of the tab bar. They’re easy to spot if you have a couple of tabs, but harder if, like me, you’re piling up tabs with 226 tabs open at any given time.
Of course, there is a hack for this: open the tab switcher with the ” Tabs ” button in the bottom right corner, then tap the status bar to quickly jump to the top of the page. You will now see pinned tabs as pill-shaped icons at the top. These tabs will not have a preview, but you will see a pin icon and a solid white background. If you are using tab groups, each group can have its own unique set of pinned tabs. Click on a pinned tab to switch to it.
If you no longer want the tab to be pinned, return to it, press and hold the URL bar, and select the Unpin tab option. You can also press and hold a tab in the tab switcher to see the same option.