{"id":163528,"date":"2021-02-19T09:16:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T09:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=163528"},"modified":"2025-07-01T21:12:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:12:59","slug":"how-to-group-tabs-in-chrome-in-5-fast-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-group-tabs-in-chrome-in-5-fast-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Group Tabs in Chrome in 5 Fast Steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chrome<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has been a popular web browser for years. Users love its sleek interface and fast browsing. Chrome also allows central access to your accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chrome came up with a solution to help users <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">organize<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> multiple tabs. They introduced an option <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">where you can save a group of<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">tabs in Chrome<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. This has been enabled on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Windows 10<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mac<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">iPhone<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and even <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Android<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> devices. This setting was <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">released automatically with Chrome 83<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on May 19, 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Ways to Group Tabs<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Users who have grouped tabs discovered new and convenient ways of arranging their favorite sites.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">organize<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> their tabs according to a topic. The topics can be called \u2018work,\u2019 \u2018shopping,\u2019 \u2018entertainment,\u2019 etc.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Others prefer arranging their tabs according to urgency. These tabs can be called \u2018ASAP,\u2019 \u2018this week,\u2019 \u2018later,\u2019 etc.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And then some users like <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">organizing<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> their tabs according to progress. For this group, you could use names like \u2018haven\u2019t started,\u2019 \u2018in progress,\u2019 or \u2018completed.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Guide to Setting up Your Tabs in a Group<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How can you join these organized users and arrange <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">multiple tabs<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> into groups? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This simple guide explains the steps you can take to achieve this.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Step 1: Open Tabs<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">First, you need to open <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">multiple tabs<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Choose ones you use often.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-163531\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/iIaVj_pke37q.jpg\" width=\"1104\" height=\"492\"><\/p>\n<h3><b>Step 2: Add to New Group<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Right-click on the tab that you want to add to a group. In the drop-down menu that appears, click on \u2018Add to New Group.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-163532\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/chrome_tabs_jl7bwr.jpg\" width=\"482\" height=\"357\"><\/p>\n<h3><b>Step 3: Change the Name<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A colored circle will appear next to the tap. Click on the circle or the tab. Now you can give the group a name and change the color.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-163534\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/chrome_tabs2_wlwlp2.jpg\" width=\"344\" height=\"386\"><\/p>\n<h3><b>Step 4: Add to Group<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Right-click on another tab that is not in a group yet. Now choose \u2018Add to Existing Group,\u2019 and select which group.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-163536\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/chrome_tabs3_qudm4l.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"365\"><\/p>\n<h3><b>Step 5: Finish Up<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Finally, add all the tabs you have to your various groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These groups are automatically saved, even if you close the browser. So it only requires a one-time setup. If you do not want to have names for your groups, you can also use an emoji instead.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-163537\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2021\/05\/chrome_tabs4_ivtmyt.jpg\" width=\"227\" height=\"74\"><\/p>\n<h2><b>Now What?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is such a simple process and will save you a lot of time in the future. There isn\u2019t any reason why you shouldn\u2019t be able to set these up right now. Go on; you will be amazed at how organized you will feel after grouping your <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">tabs in Chrome<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chrome has been a popular web browser for years. Users love its sleek interface and fast browsing. Chrome also allows central access to your accounts. Chrome came up with a solution to help users organize multiple tabs. They introduced an option where you can save a group of tabs in Chrome. This has been enabled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-group-tabs-in-chrome-in-5-fast-steps\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Group Tabs in Chrome in 5 Fast Steps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9205,"featured_media":180664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2378],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-163528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionchrome"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325048,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163528\/revisions\/325048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163528"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=163528"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=163528"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=163528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}