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How to Easily Close All Safari Tabs at Once in iOS 7 for iPhone & iPad

Jan 12, 2014 09:15 PM
Close all tabs confirmation on a mobile web browser.

Closing all of your tabs open in Safari is not an exceptionally quick task—you have the choice of either tapping the X on the left edge of each page or swiping each tab to the left of the screen.

How to Easily Close All Safari Tabs at Once in iOS 7 for iPhone & iPad

If you have a load of tabs open, you'll have to swipe or tap through all of them. Instead of wasting time, I'm going to show you the quick way of closing all of the open tabs in Safari.

Using Private Browsing Mode

In order to close all of the tabs at once, go to the tabs viewfinder in Safari and tap on Private. When the popup shows, it will give you the option to Close All tabs.

How to Easily Close All Safari Tabs at Once in iOS 7 for iPhone & iPad
Close all pages prompt on a mobile browser.
How to Easily Close All Safari Tabs at Once in iOS 7 for iPhone & iPad
Close all pages prompt on a mobile browser.

Once you tap it, all of the tabs will close and a private browsing tab will open. If you don't want to stay in private browsing mode you can switch back by tapping back on the tab icon on the bottom right and then tapping on Private.

How to Easily Close All Safari Tabs at Once in iOS 7 for iPhone & iPad
How to Easily Close All Safari Tabs at Once in iOS 7 for iPhone & iPad
How to Easily Close All Safari Tabs at Once in iOS 7 for iPhone & iPad
How to Easily Close All Safari Tabs at Once in iOS 7 for iPhone & iPad

This trick only works with iOS 7 and it's a quick and easy way to close all the tabs on Safari when they start piling up.

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