For iPhone owners, it doesn't have to be hard to find the right Apple Safari tab even when there are dozens of websites open at once. The tab overview is nice for websites that are visually distinctive in colors or that have bold graphics or photos that might stand out in the preview thumbnails but otherwise, it can be difficult to distinguish one particular website from another in a sea of tabs. Apple has a quick and easy solution for this problem that's hidden in plain sight in the Safari browser.
Apple's Safari app was initially developed as a desktop web browser to provide an alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer has seen big changes over the years. In 2007, Apple introduced the iPhone and Safari was the obvious choice to use as the default browser. Right from the start, an iPhone was capable of displaying full desktop websites, although the slow carrier speeds at that time-restricted use. In modern times, 5G speeds and advances in iPhone performance provide a very inviting browsing experience and it's quite easy to open a huge number of tabs in a short period of time.
When more than a handful of tabs are open on an iPhone, it begins to become cumbersome to locate a specific tab. This is particularly true when some tabs look nearly the same in the thumbnail preview. A little-known trick is to pull the tab overview list down until a search box appears at the top. Typing keywords in the box will filter the tab list by matching titles and website addresses, which makes it easy to narrow down to relevant tabs. To see the tab overview in Safari on iOS, the user should tap the button at the bottom-right when in portrait mode or top-right when in landscape mode (if enabled). Then Apple's thoughtful tab search box can be found by scrolling to the top and typing in a keyword will show only the matching tabs, making it easy to open the right one.
Sorting iPhone Safari Tabs
Another way to find Safari tabs more easily when using an iPhone to browse the internet is by sorting them. This can be done alphabetically or by the domain name. After opening the tab overview, pressing and holding any tab preview will open a context menu. There are several useful options, including copying that tab's website address, creating a bookmark for all of the open tabs, moving the selected tab to a Tab Group, sorting tabs, or closing all other tabs and keeping only the selected one open.
To sort iPhone Safari tabs, the user should select Arrange Tabs By, which will open another menu with options to Arrange Tabs By Title or Arrange Tabs By Website. 'By Website' is usually the choice that will provide the best organization. This places all websites from the same domain next to one another so every YouTube, Amazon, or Reddit tab will be clumped together. Naturally, the iPhone's Tab Groups provide a more structured way to find tabs that are used frequently. For the usual flurry of websites being visited, however, using Safari's search and sort make it easy to find tabs on an iPhone.
Source: Apple