How to Reopen Closed Tabs on Microsoft Edge (Shortcuts & More)

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Learn to recover closed tabs from a previous session

Co-authored by Glenn Carreau Reviewed by Stan Kats

Last Updated: December 30, 2025 Fact Checked

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Using a Keyboard Shortcut

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Using the Mouse

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Restoring from History

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Restoring Previous Sessions

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Managing Tabs

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Need to learn how to restore and manage your tabs in Microsoft Edge? You’ve come to the right place! Luckily, bringing back closed tabs (whether you closed them on purpose a while ago, or lost them accidentally due to a crash or restart) is really easy to do—and there are several ways to do it. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll show you how to utilize keyboard shortcuts and other handy tools in Microsoft Edge to restore tabs, so you can revisit them in a snap. Let’s dive in!

3 Quick Ways to Restore Tabs on Microsoft Edge

Using a keyboard shortcut: Press Ctrl + Shift + T (PC) or Cmd + Shift + T (Mac) to reopen the most recently closed tab.
Using the mouse: Right-click the title bar and select Reopen closed tab to restore the most recently closed tab.
Using your history: Click the Menu •••, select History, and select the tab you want to reopen.

Section 1 of 5:

Restoring Tabs via Keyboard Shortcut

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Press Ctrl+⇧ Shift+T to reopen a recently closed tab. That’s right—there’s a simple keyboard shortcut that’ll restore a closed tab in Microsoft Edge, no extra fuss needed. This won’t work on tabs closed a while ago, though; it’s mainly for tabs closed in your current session. Just press CTRL + Shift + T simultaneously on your keyboard, and Edge will reopen the most recently closed tab.^{[1]
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- Using this keyboard shortcut multiple times will keep opening closed tabs in the reverse order that they were closed (so, the last closed all the way back to the first closed).
- If you're using Edge on a Mac, use the keyboard shortcut ⌘ Command+⇧ Shift+T to reopen a closed tab.

Section 2 of 5:

Restoring Tabs via Title Bar

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At the top of Edge, you will see all open tabs. To the right of your open tabs, you'll see the New Tab + button, along with some empty space. Right-click that space to bring up a menu.^{[2]
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Select Reopen closed tab to reopen the most recently closed tab. If you’ve closed any tabs in your current session, you’ll see the Reopen closed tab option in the drop-down menu. Click on it, and, like the keyboard shortcut, the most recently closed tab will immediately be restored. You can repeat this to restore as many tabs as you’ve closed in that session.^{[3]
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- Basically, this works just like the keyboard shortcut—selecting Reopen closed tab the first time will restore the last closed tab, then the second-to-last, and so on, all the way to the first tab you closed.
- You’ll probably want to use this or the keyboard shortcut to open the last tab that you closed, or a whole bunch of recent tabs. For a specific tab you closed a while ago, it might be quicker to just use the History method below!

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Restoring Tabs via History

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The menu is to the right of the bar where the website address is displayed. When you select History, a window containing your most recently viewed websites will appear.^{[4]
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Find the tab you want to restore and click on it. Microsoft Edge automatically saves 90 days’ worth of browser history, so you can find tabs from even a couple of months back, if need be! When you click on a page, Edge will immediately reopen it in its own tab. And, of course, you can do this for as many old tabs (or web pages) as you want.^{[5]
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- If you want to open up your browser history in a new window and view it on a larger scale, you can select the icon with three horizontal dots (...) at the top of the History drop-down menu, then select Open history page.

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Restoring a Previous Session of Edge

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Configure Microsoft Edge to automatically restore old tabs. You can also change your computer’s settings so that, if your computer restarts (or the program crashes), Edge will pull up the tabs you had open the last time you were using it. That way, you won’t have to go through and restore the tabs yourself! To do this, simply:^{[6]
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- Click the Menu ••• icon in Microsoft Edge.
- Click Settings.
- Navigate to Start, home, and new tab page in the left-side menu.
- Under the On startup header, click on the bubble next to Open tabs from the previous session.
- With that choice enabled, all existing tabs from your previous session will be opened when you relaunch Microsoft Edge.
Say Edge crashes, you mistakenly hit the “X” that closes the entire browser window, or you have to restart your computer. Can you get all your tabs back? The short answer is…yes! Edge saves 90 days’ worth of browsing history. Now, when you reopen Edge after closing it accidentally (or after Edge crashes), the tabs from your previous session will reopen automatically.

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More Ways to Manage Tabs

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Create tab groups via the title bar or “Tab groups” button. The Tab groups button is at the far top-left side of the window; it looks like a small rectangle with a horizontal line inside. Click on it, then select Create new tab group to set up a new group.^{[7]
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- From the title bar, simply right-click on a tab and select Add tab to group. Then, you can select New group to set one up (or add the tab to an existing group, if applicable).
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Click on tab groups to expand or collapse them. Once you’ve made a tab group, you can quickly view all of the tabs in it (or minimize the group, so you’re only seeing the group name and none of the actual tabs) by clicking on the group name label in the title bar. Clicking on it while the group is minimized will expand it, and, vice versa, clicking on it while the group is expanded will minimize it.
- You can use tab groups to organize your tabs if you have several open, and even help keep yourself focused on the task at hand.
- Tab groups can be restored in the same ways you restore solo tabs!
Is there a specific tab that you wish were always open, or readily available when you boot up Microsoft Edge? You can make that happen! Right-click on the open tab that you want to pin; then, from the drop-down menu, select Pin tab. This will ensure the tab automatically loads when you launch Microsoft Edge.