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How to toggle between two tabs in Safari

Move to the tab on the right or left, or use TabBack to toggle between the last two tabs you used.

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If the two Safari tabs are next to each other, press Control-Tab to move right and Control-Shift-Tab to move left.

Toggle between your last two active tabs

Safari has no built-in shortcut for switching back to the tab you just used. Its shortcuts move left or right in the tab bar instead.

TabBack for Safari adds a customizable shortcut that follows your recent tab history, much like Command-Tab follows your recent app history:

  1. Press the shortcut once to return to the tab you just used.
  2. Press it again to switch back.

TabBack showing recently used Safari tabs with visual previews

TabBack shows Safari tabs in recent-use order.

Keep pressing to go further back through recent tabs, use the previews to recognize the page you want, and release the shortcut to open it.

Switch Safari tabs in recent-use order.

Choose a shortcut, press once for the previous tab, and keep pressing to go further back.

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