Open Multiple Bookmarks as New Tabs

In this video, I’m going to show you how you can open up multiple websites as tabs. We do this by placing all of our bookmarks in a specific folder. And then what we can do is open up all those sites within that folder as separate tabs. Let’s see what I mean. Let’s go to my iPad.

So I am in Safari here, and if we go over to our Bookmarks, I’m going to tap on my bookmark icon, when we are looking at our Bookmarks here, you’re going to see I have a folder called News. When I tap on this, I can see all of the different sites in that folder.

Now, what I would like to do is open these all up at the same time. Maybe what I do is I go through these once a day. So the first thing I want to do is just open them up as all tabs, and then I can just close them as I read. How can I open these all up as tabs? Well, we go back over to our folder. So I go back over to All. Now, what I need to do is I just tap and hold on this folder. When I tap and hold down this, we get a menu that pops up, and from here I can open up any one of these websites. But if we go over to the right, you’re going to see we have an option to open these up in new tabs. So now when I tap on this, it’s going to open up all of those websites as tabs. So let’s tap on this and see how this works. And now you’re going to see, I have all of those websites, let’s close my Bookmarks, I have all of those websites as tabs.

So I want to go to CNN. I just tap on this and I’m looking at CNN. I want to go to ESPN. I tap on ESPN and now I’m looking at that site. So now what I’m able to do is just go through these one by one. Let’s go back over to CNN. I’m done reading it. I tap on the X. It takes me to my next site, New York Times. I’m done reading this. So I tap on the X. It takes me to my next site. I tap on Favorites, takes me to CNET. So now I can easily just go through all of my different websites. I’m going to close all these. I’m just going to tap on the X here to close.

We can even do this with our Favorites Bar. Now, if we look here you’re going to see I do not have my Favorites Bar showing. To show the Favorites Bar, I just go back over to my Settings app. So I’m going to press on the Home button, and then I go over to Settings. I go up to my Safari settings. And we have an option here for Show Favorites Bar.

When I turn this on, it’s going to show my Favorites Bar in Safari. So now let’s go back over to Safari, tap on the Home button and we go back over to Safari. You’re going to see I have my Favorites Bar. This is just a special folder in our bookmarks. When I go back over to my Bookmarks, you’re going to see I have Favorites. Anything that is in this Favorites is going to show up in that Favorites Bar.

So let’s say I wanted to move this news over in to Favorites, so I have easy access to it from my Favorites Bar. All I do is just tap on Edit and then I tap on News, and I can move it into my Favorites Bar. So I just go with Bookmarks here. I tap on Favorites. Now I go back to All, I tap on Done. So now that News folder is located in my Favorites. Let’s close these bookmarks here.

You’re going to see I have News up here. When I tap on it, I can see all those sites and I can open them up one by one. But again, what I like to do is open them all up at once. So then I can cycle through them. So all I need to do is just tap and hold on this, we have a menu that pops up. I tap on this and now we can see it’s opening up all of those websites as separate tabs.

So that’s how we can easily open up a folder of websites as tabs in Safari. All we need to do is just tap and hold on that folder. When we tap and hold on that folder, when we’re looking at our Bookmarks, we’re going to get a menu that pops up. And from there we just select Open as New Tabs. We can also do this when that folder is located in our Favorites Bar.

So that’s how we can open up multiple websites at the same time as new tabs in Safari on the iPad.