Safari may be getting a more helpful way to manage cluttered browsing sessions at Apple’s next WWDC. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, test versions of Safari built for iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 include a feature that can automatically sort open tabs into groups.
Apple first introduced Tab Groups back in Safari 15 in 2021, giving users a way to save and organize sets of tabs for work, shopping, travel, or whatever else they were juggling. Five years later, the company now appears ready to upgrade that idea with built-in automation rather than leaving all the sorting to the user.
In Gurman’s description, the updated Tab Groups interface includes a new option called Organize Tabs. When turned on, Safari can classify tabs by topic and place them into matching groups automatically, while still allowing users to keep their own manual layout if they prefer. The prompt shown in testing reportedly explains that tabs will be grouped by browsing theme.
Apple doesn’t appear to label the feature as part of Apple Intelligence, but the underlying behavior clearly relies on AI-style content understanding. The concept is similar to the way Apple has been using intelligent categorization in Notes, where lists can be sorted into meaningful buckets without the user doing the cleanup by hand. If the feature ships as expected, Safari could become a lot easier to manage for people who regularly keep dozens of tabs open across devices.
