I have another confession. The Opera browser absolutely spoiled me with the Workspaces feature, which makes it incredibly easy to better organize your tabs. After using Opera for a few months, I had a lot of trouble going back to any other browser, simply because they had no idea how to truly manage tabs. Fortunately, with my default Firefox browser, a serviceable extension was created to make this task a bit easier. But what about Safari? Although Firefox on Linux is my primary browser/OS combination, I do also have to use macOS daily as well. And thankfully, the Apple developers saw to it to add a tab groups feature that is on par with the best-in-class Workspaces found in Opera. Let me show you how to use this new Tab Groups feature. The only thing you’ll need is Safari version 15 or newer.
Create a new tab group
- From the sidebar, you will see a pre-defined tab group, named Untitled. Tap Untitled to rename that group (say, Work or Productivity).
- Once you’ve renamed that group, click + at the top right corner of the sidebar and then click New Empty Tab Group (Figure 2).
- Give that new tab group a new name and keep adding new tag groups until you have everything you need to keep your tabs well organized.
Using tab groups
- Let’s say you have an open tab and you want to move it to a different Tab Group. To do that, right-click (or two-finger tap) the tab in question and select Move to Tab Group > NAME (Where NAME is the name of the destination tab - Figure 4). And that’s all there is to using the new Tab Groups feature in Safari. If you’re one to get buried in tabs, I highly recommend you start using this new feature immediately, as it will make your Safari experience considerably more efficient and productive.