Chrome wants to make sure your tabs and groups are available across devices

Google Chrome is trying to make its browser more user-friendly by providing access to tab groups and recently opened tabs on all devices.

The company is adding tab groups to iOS devices. In the Chrome app, you can press and hold a tab in the tab switcher to create a new tab group or add it to an existing tab group. You can also assign a color code to a tab group. Chrome first introduced tab grouping on desktop in 2020 and later added it to Android. Interestingly, Safari already has a tab grouping feature, so Google is aiming for feature parity in this rollout.

Now that iPhones and iPads have tab groups, Google has said they’ll soon sync across devices. This is helpful if you’re planning a trip or have pages of 15-minute recipes saved on your desktop and want to access them on your phone later in the kitchen.

Sometimes, if you have a tab open on your desktop but haven’t bookmarked it, you might have trouble remembering the URL when you open it on your phone. Google is experimenting with a feature that proactively suggests the tabs you currently have open on one of your other devices.

For example, if you opened a long article on your desktop but had to quickly leave to catch a taxi or bus, Google will show you that tab using the “Continue in this tab” feature.

While tab group syncing and URL suggestions sound great, they haven’t been implemented yet. We’ll have to wait until the company actually implements them to find out if switching between devices works well.