Quick—open up Safari on your iPhone and hit the View Tabs button in the bottom right.
If your phone is like mine, you’ve got a stack with dozens of tabs… leftover pages opened from social media posts, movie times from the film I saw weeks ago, search results, you name it. I don’t need any of that stuff anymore, but it’s kind of a pain to go swiping through all my open tabs every few weeks to clean out the cruft.
Fortunately, iOS 13 adds a new feature to Safari that can automatically close tabs after a period of time. It’s easy to set, if you know where to look.
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First, open the Settings app.
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Then scroll down to Safari settings and tap on that.
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There’s a lot in there, you want to scroll down to the Tabs section and tap on the Close Tabs selection.
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By default it is set to Manually, but you can change it to After One Day, After One Week, or After One Month.
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It’s worth a quick trip into Safari’s settings to keep those tabs under control.
There’s no correct setting, just choose whatever makes sense for the way you use your iPhone. I find I almost never need to reference something more than a week old, so the After One Week setting keeps my open tabs to a reasonable number without impacting my daily use.
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