How to share Safari Tab Groups on iPhone
Apple’s latest addition to the litany of project and research collaboration tools, while inherently limited to Mac, iPhone, and iPad users, could be of use to even professionals from time to time.
Apple keeps track of things for you
Despite the whining of bookmark reactionaries like me, Apple seems genuinely committed to the idea of organizing the web with tabs instead of traditional bookmarks. Tab groups were introduced with iOS 15.
These are designed to help you keep dozens of tabs organized and available without having to open them all at once. This allows you to use your browser in a slightly different way. So if you’re researching components for a large architectural project, you can create tab groups for different parts of the project while still having a third tab group to collect research for your next vacation.
What’s useful about these groups is that they’re automatically pushed to all your devices as long as they’re all signed into the same iCloud account, meaning you can keep working on any device and easily switch to another to get your tasks done .
New in iOS 16 is the ability to share these Safari tab groups.
How to share Safari tab groups
Let’s say you’re researching these building materials and need to share the results of that research with others on your team—or even with outside vendors who might be able to help you with your decision. We haven’t seen this feature on iPads or Macs yet (those OS updates are due later this fall), but it’s reasonable to assume that the way we share Safari tab groups will be similar on those devices will be like on an iPhone.
To share tabbed groups on an iPhone, simply open Safari, tap the square icon at the bottom right to access your open tabs, select the tab group you want to share from the drop-down interface, and search then the newly arrived and tap on it share icon you can find at the top right of the page. You will then be asked who you would like to share the collection with and send them a message to invite them to your group.
You can share them with multiple people, and once you’ve already shared a collection, you can see who you’re tapping with on the new user profile icon that appears at the top right of the tabbed browser interface.
What happens when you share?
The people you share the group with get a link in the message that they can press to access the shared group on their device. They’ll be notified if they’ve accepted, and you’ll get activity updates in the message conversation when someone makes a change to the shared collection. If they add or remove a page, you’ll know about it.
leadership of the group
The new user profile icon lets you do more than just check who you’re sharing this collection with. In this section, you can add more people to the sharing circle, remove people, and stop sharing altogether.
Start a conversation
You can also start conversations via Messages and FaceTime (audio or video) with anyone sharing the group in Safari. This should also come in handy when collaborating on research on a project – especially when used with Freeform, Continuity Camera, and the many other collaborative features Apple has introduced to its ecosystem in recent years.
Coming back to the architectural metaphor, as you research materials, you may be sharing your collection with a construction specialist, the client, or even a site manager from your local authority as you decide what materials to use in the massive, circular main building you are planning to construct.
Eventually I guess you’ll even share what you see walking around the site.
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