Change Tabs settings in Safari on Mac

Organise tabs (requires Apple Intelligence)

Choose one of the following:

• Automatically Create Topics: Safari groups related tabs into topics.

• Show Related Tabs: Manually group related tabs into topics that Safari recommends.

• Never: Don’t organise tabs into topics.

  Note: Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 is not available in all languages or regions. Usage limits may apply.*

Open pages in tabs instead of windows

Choose one of the following:

• Never: Open web pages in windows.

• Automatically: Open web pages in tabs unless a web page is designed for a specially formatted window.

• Always: Open web pages in tabs.

Automatically close tabs

Choose how long to keep tabs open before they’re closed automatically — one day, one week or one month.

Choose Manually if you want tabs to stay open until you close them.

Tab layout

Keep tabs in a separate tab bar or move them into the toolbar.

Choose one of the following:

• Separate: Tabs remain in the tab bar, below the toolbar.

• Compact: Tabs move up to the toolbar. The active tab is the Smart Search field.

Show colour in tab bar

Use the background from the active web page as the background colour of the tab bar.

Always show website titles in tabs

Show website icons and titles instead of only icons, even when many tabs are in the tab bar.

⌘-click opens a link in a new tab

Change what the listed shortcuts for opening links do.

When a new tab or window opens, make it active

Make new tabs or windows open in front of the one you’re currently viewing.

Use ⌘-1 to ⌘-9 to switch tabs

Use keyboard shortcuts to select one of the first nine tabs in the tab bar.