To pin a tab in Chrome on a computer, right-click the tab and select Pin. To undo it, right-click the pinned tab and select Unpin. Google’s tab help says pinned tabs are smaller and show only the site’s icon, so they take up little room on the tab bar.
Pin several tabs at once
- Hold Ctrl (⌘ on a Mac) and click each tab you want, or click the first tab, hold Shift and click the last one to select a range.
- Right-click any of the highlighted tabs.
- Select Pin.
Without a mouse on Windows or Linux, press F6 twice, then Ctrl + Shift + H to select the tab that has focus, as Google’s help describes. Chrome has no single keyboard shortcut for pinning. Its keyboard shortcuts do let you jump to a tab: Ctrl + 1 through Ctrl + 8 (⌘ + 1 through ⌘ + 8 on a Mac), so a pinned tab in first place is always one keystroke away.
Pin a tab on Android
- Open Chrome and tap Switch tabs to the right of the address bar.
- Touch and hold the tab you want to pin.
- Tap Pin tab.
To unpin it, touch and hold the pinned tab and tap Unpin tab. Google’s Android tab help notes that you can’t pin a tab group, and that pinning a tab inside a group takes it out of the group.
Pin a tab on iPhone
- Open Chrome and tap Switch Tabs.
- Press and hold the tab you want to pin.
- Tap Pin Tab. You can also drag the tab to the bottom of the screen.
Pinned tabs sit at the bottom of the tab switcher. To unpin one, press and hold it there and tap Unpin Tab. These steps are from Google’s iPhone and iPad tab help, which describes pinning for iPhone.
Keep pinned tabs after you restart Chrome
To have Chrome open your pinned tabs, and the rest, every time it starts, go to More > Settings > On startup and select Continue where you left off, as described in Google’s startup page help. If a pinned tab disappeared, reopen it like any closed tab.