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Comment by gurumeditations | Hacker News Reader

Safari, at least on the iPad, is so incredibly buggy in iOS 13 that it’s practically unusable. Not to mention the ridiculous system where it opens new Safari windows, not tabs, and then doesn’t give me any option to close them. And when Safari bugs out, and I have to force close it, it loses every single one of the tabs I have open, and it didn’t do any of this garbage before iOS 13.

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Arghh, those floating Safari windows. How do you get rid of them?

When you already have Safari running (or any other app), pull up the dock from the bottom edge of the screen.

Then press the Safari icon (or alternatively, press and hold on the Safari icon and choose "Show All Windows").

Now, all of those floating Safari windows are shown, and you can "toss them away" and close them.

Yes, it's not a very intuitive discovery process :(

I definitely appreciate the need to have multiple windows of the same app on an iPad, but the way Apple went about it is...bizarre, clunky and not exactly intuitive.

Considering Exposé and its default gestures exist on MacOS, you'd think maybe they'd take cues from that?

Why not put a little “x” on them to close the floating windows like tabs?

> Not to mention the ridiculous system where it opens new Safari windows, not tabs, and then doesn’t give me any option to close them. And when Safari bugs out, and I have to force close it, it loses every single one of the tabs I have open

That’s very strange; none of these things should be happening. Actually, there are explicit checks to make sure that it doesn’t happen. Is there anything in particular you’re doing that might be triggering this?

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