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I Was Today Years Old When I Learned This iPhone Hack For Closing All Safari Tabs at Once

Aug 7 2019 - 7:55am

If you're anything like me, you collect iPhone Safari tabs like it's your freakin' job. A handful of Thai restaurant menus here and a few randomly googled celebrity factoids there, and next thing you know, you're 174 tabs deep and in serious need of a cleanse. Sound familiar?

Luckily, you don't have to cramp up your thumb while exiting out of your endless tabs, because there's a little-known iPhone and iPad feature that lets you delete 'em all at once — yes, really! As pointed out by Twitter user Joey Taralson [1], all you have to do is open up your Safari app and hold down the tab icon in the lower right-hand corner until a window pops up giving you options to close all your tabs, close just the current one, open a new private tab, or open a regular tab. Genius!

As it turns out, Joey isn't the only one who's just now discovering this nifty tab-closing shortcut. Tons of people have recently tweeted in amazement while sharing the trick with their equally mind-blown followers. It's safe to say this feature is a total game changer, just like that handy-dandy space bar hack [2] that went viral last year, despite the fact that it's been around for ages.

Here's Joey's Video Showing How to Close All Your Tabs at Once

His Followers Were Pretty Mind-Blown After Learning the Shortcut

Live Footage of Me When I Learned About This Cool Feature

Other iPhone Users Have Been Equally Mind-Blown After Recently Discovering the Shortcut

This One's Definitely Helpful For Parents Who Aren't Exactly Savvy in the Tech Department

A Bright Future Ahead, Indeed

Apparently You Can Also Press and Hold the "Done" Button to Activate the Shortcut

So. Damn. Genius.

#Finally Is Right

Oh My LANTA, That's a Lot of Tabs

Some People Have Discovered the Feature by Accident

Everyone's Sharing the Hack With Their Followers

In Awe of This Person's Minimal Tabs, TBH


Source URL
https://www.popsugar.com/tech/How-Close-All-iPhone-Safari-Tabs-Same-Time-45674885