New shared Safari group tab is no longer visible on my iOS 16 iPhone but is visible on iPad and MacOS 15.x

I have an issue where I have created a new tab group and shared it with my wife to share websites for our up and coming trip.


The issue is that shortly after creating the group tab and sharing it, My wife could open the tab, but the there was no pages that I had stored there.


I then tried to open the group from my Mac and iPad to see the pages, it instead shows a page that said it requires a newer version of Safari to view the pages.

But when I look at the group tabs in my Safari on my iOS, all my group tabs exist except the one that I created and shared. My other devices do see all tables including the newly created shared tab.


What makes it frustrating, is that in my messages app under the chat to my wife has a message at the top of screen showing any changes to the shared group tab with a preview button to click on.

The preview button takes me to Safari but does not open anything.

The message at the top of the chat window does not go away.


So now I have a group tab that I cant be seen or accesses by my iOS 16 iPhone which constantly tells me the changes that are being made even though no changes are being made by either of us.


What can I do to see this group tab on my device or delete it for good so that is does not show us update messages in our chat messages window?


iPhone 13 Pro

Posted on Sep 19, 2022 05:24 PM

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Sep 24, 2022 08:40 AM in response to Darksheer

Hello Darksheer,


Have you checked to make sure there weren't any changes for Tab Groups and sharing in the new iOS 16.0.2 version? If not, take a look at the two links below for details.



If you have everything setup correctly, then we recommend reaching out to Apple Support by going to Get Support.



Good luck!

Sep 24, 2022 02:00 PM in response to Dorain1

Thank you Dorain1 for sending the links, however nether explains how to locate/retrieve the missing group on my iPhone.

My iPhone is running the public release version 16.0.


here is a more detailed explanation of how the group was created, shared and issues seen which may shed a bit more light.

The issue may be due to the group tab and the links all being created on my iPad originally and then shared on the iPhone.

Before sharing both my iPhone and iPad could see and view the 6 group dabs that I had setup.

Once shared though, the group tab disappeared on my iPhone and left me with 5 group tabs to select from.

on my wife’s phone; also running the public release version 16.0, can see the group tab, but shows none of the pages that were in it when it was shared.

all my other devices can see the group tab and when clicking on it, it states that version 16 is required to access shared group tabs…

since my wife has accessed the group tab, we both see an update message that will not go away in our chat under the messages application.

Sep 24, 2022 05:22 PM in response to Darksheer

we have ended up deleting the group, me from my iPad and my wife from her phone.

we have also needed then to go into our conversation in the messages app and delete each update notifications (approx 100 in total that had accumulated within only a few days even though no changes were made).


as for creating a new shared safari tab, I don’t think I will be doing that any time soon as it is pointless with only iPhone devices currently able to view them.


Sep 28, 2022 01:51 PM in response to Darksheer

Now this is starting to get annoying.

after deleting the group a few days ago on both accounts and then clearing the notifications about updates in both my and my wife’s chat within messages, we are still getting notifications say that each of us are updating the groups. Re are receiving approx 4-5 notifications every 4 hours or so.

all we can do is acknowledge each and every message to clear them.

the review button if used, just takes us to safari all tabs group showing all the pages we had open within safari in a grid.

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