Instantly kill every Safari tab on your iPhone with this handy trick

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Whether you've just picked up an iPhone xiii or have been using iOS for a while, iPhones and iPads take a whole agglomeration of features that you lot may not know about. Only hither's one particularly handy trick that everyone should be aware of — being able to close all of your Safari tabs at in one case.

Rapidly racking up browser tabs and forgetting about them is something we're all guilty of. And while iOS 15 is a highly optimized and efficient operating system, it's probably not a good thought to take endless tabs sitting effectually in the background.

Thankfully, in that location's a quick and easy style to close down every tab in Safari on your iPhone or iPad. Here's how to do it.

How to close every tab in Safari on iPhone or iPad

1. To instantly shut every tab in Safari on your iPhone or iPad, only tap and hold the tab icon, and then tap "Shut all [X] tabs."

Screenshot from an iPhone showing how to close Safari tabs — this screen shows the pop-up enabling you to close tabs — (Epitome credit: Apple)

ii. To confirm, tap "Close all [X] tabs."

Screenshot from an iPhone showing how to close Safari tabs — this screen shows the pop-up asking if you definitely want to close all tabs — (Prototype credit: Apple)

iii. Safari also has the option to automatically shut unused tabs after a prepare menstruation of fourth dimension. To do this, tap one of the time periods that appears, or tap "Don't Shut Automatically" if you don't desire Safari to shut your tabs automatically.

Screenshot from an iPhone showing how to close Safari tabs — this screen shows the automatic closing options — (Image credit: Apple)

Now you know how to shut all your tabs in Safari, you might also want to find out how to move the Safari accost bar back to the peak on iOS 15. You could besides bank check out another hidden iPhone pull a fast one on that will save you a ton of fourth dimension, and find out how to recover deleted messages on iPhone.

Dale Fox is How-to Editor at Tom's Guide, helping people get the about out of their technology. He'southward been a tech nerd ever since childhood, when he used the money from his beginning job as a paperboy to buy a subscription to GamesMaster magazine, and has a whole room at home defended as a shrine to the countless gadgets he'southward purchased over the decades. Dale was previously a presenter, reporter and editor in China, where he also worked as a copywriter for OnePlus at its Shenzhen HQ.