Whenever I open a new tab in Safari on one of my iPads, it automatically opens the same tab on another iPad. How do I stop this?
Safari opening similar tab on 2nd iPad
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In Safari > Preferences > Tabs, there's a preference for setting when pages should open in windows or tabs.
Look here:
- Open Safari > Preferences and select Tabs along the top
- Under the option for "Open pages in tabs instead of windows:" select "Always" from the drop-down.
This will force every application to open links in tabs.
Install the Safari extension LinkThing to customize links behavior. It should be able to solve your problem, additionally, you can also customize the onsite and offsite links behavior.
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Best Answer
Tab sharing through Safari is controlled by the "Safari" option in your iCloud syncing settings, so you have two different options if you want to keep this from happening:
Remove the iCloud account from one of the devices so that it is no longer aware of what's occurring on the other device.
Turn the feature off. On the iPad go to Settings > Click your account at the top of the app > iCloud > flip the "Safari" option to inactive. (If you're on an older version of iOS this will instead be in Settings > iCloud further down the page > Safari option)
You might also be talking about the Handoff functionality, which displays the app icon for the app that is active on another device, and if you tap on that icon, it opens with whatever you were doing on the other device. To turn that off go to Settings > General > Handoff and flip the switch so that it is inactive.