Chrome’s AI Tab organizer is gone. Google has retired it, so the “Organize tabs” suggestions no longer appear, and its old help article now opens the Chrome Help home page. Chrome’s enterprise policy list now marks the Tab organizer setting as deprecated “since tab organizer has been sunset as a feature.” To organize tabs today, use tab groups to sort them by hand, and Tab Search to find any open tab.
The steps below come from Google’s help article Manage tabs in Chrome.
Group your tabs
- Right-click a tab.
- Choose Add tab to group, then New group or an existing group.
- To name the group or change its color, right-click the colored circle or name to the left of the group.
- To add more tabs, drag them into the group. To take one out, right-click it and choose Remove from group.
- Click the group’s name or colored circle to collapse it, so only the name shows. Click again to expand it.
To group many tabs at once, click the first tab, hold Shift and click the last one. On Windows you can also hold Ctrl and click each tab you want. Then right-click any highlighted tab and choose Add tabs to group.
When your browsing history and tabs are synced with your Google Account, tab groups are saved and synced to your other devices. Closing a group does not delete it: you can reopen it from the bookmarks bar or from Chrome’s menu under Tab groups. Our tab groups guide goes further.
Find any open tab with Tab Search
- Click Tab Search in the tab strip, or press Ctrl + Shift + A on Windows and Linux, or Command + Shift + A on a Mac.
- Type a word from the site or page title.
- Click a result to jump to it, or click the close button next to it to close that tab.
You can also search tabs from the address bar: type @tabs, press Tab or Space, then type what you are looking for.
Show tabs down the side
If you keep dozens of tabs open, vertical tabs make every page title readable. Right-click a blank space in the tab strip, or right-click any tab, and choose Show Tabs Vertically. Choose Show Tabs Horizontally to switch back.
Ask AI about your open tabs
Chrome’s current AI tools can work with your tabs, but they answer questions rather than sort your tab strip:
- Gemini in Chrome can read up to 10 open tabs you share with it and compare or summarize them. See our Gemini in Chrome guide for who can use it.
- AI Mode lets you add recent tabs, images or files to a search. Google’s help on asking AI about your tabs says the titles and web addresses of tabs you add to a thread are saved for a number of months, so you can come back to the conversation later.