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How to use group tabs in Safari on a Mac 

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You can group your tabs in Safari in the way that works best for you. Here is how you can create a tab group. In Safari, you can now manage multiple projects simultaneously by creating tab groups. This update is officially available in Safari 15 and comes with macOS Monterey.

Safari 15 brings a major update to the tab management system, similar to a folder for your tabs, with a fresh UI, more customization, and more extra features. How can you organize your tabs with the Tab group feature to make things easier?

How to Set Up a Safari Tab Group on a Mac

You can begin with the empty tab group, or you can also use the tab group of an already open tab to combine them.

Create an empty tab group.

  • Launch the Safari browser on your Mac.
  • Click on the mini-dropdown menu placed in the upper-left corner beside the Toolbar icon.
  • From the context menu, select New Empty Tab Group and give it a name (or you can rename it).

Create a tab group of active tabs.

  • Launch the Safari browser on your Mac.
  • Click on the mini-dropdown menu placed in the upper-left corner beside the Toolbar icon.
  • From the context menu, select New Tab Group with N-Number of Tabs.

Give the group a name, or rename it.

So this is how you can create an empty tab or a group of active tabs. There are a few more things that you can do with your tabs, like move the tab to another grouped tab. View. In Safari for Mac, open and edit the tab group.

Move the Web Tab to a different tab group.

If you wish to move the tab to another group tab, it is quite easy since it requires moving the tab like what you used to do with arranging tabs on Safari before.

  • Open Safari on a Mac.
  • Choose the tab to which you want to move to another tab, right-click/Control-click on the tab, and then select Move to Tab Group from the context menu.

View, open, and edit the Tab Group in Safari on Mac.

To access your group tab, you need to know how you can view, open, and edit the tab group.

How to Access Group Tabs

  • Launch the Safari browser on your Mac.
  • Next, click on the mini-dropdown menu placed in the upper-left corner of the screen beside the Toolbar icon.
  • There, you have created tabs. Select the tab that you want to view.
  • Launch the Safari browser on your Mac.
  • Go to the toolbar icon placed in the upper-left corner beside Window Control.
  • To see all the group tabs, click on the tab Groups on the toolbar.
  • To rename or delete, right-click or control-click on the tab group to act. You can even copy links to all the tabs in the tab group.
  • Additionally, if you want to rearrange, simply use the mouse drag feature by clicking, holding, and dragging the tab group accordingly.
  • Done

How to Sync Tab Groups Between Devices

Not to mention, syncing tabs that open in Safari are likely to be synced across Apple devices, including iPhones, iPads, etc. Syncing tab groups across devices can be enabled.