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Both settings are off here. The only thing I remember from when this started to happen was that I used private tabs the day before it started. After that, all tabs I leave opened goes away when I close the browser or switch to a new app.

Hey, I’m facing the same issue. I’ve not done any setting changes. This only happens on my iPad, not on my iPhone. And it started happening recently. Been using Brave on my iPad for sometime now, no such issues before.

@Mattches @michal would either of you have any answers on this issue. I can’t seem to replicate it and am not sure what might be going on that Brave would be opening in Private even though they say settings aren’t up for that. And as a result, they are losing whatever open tabs they had.

Will have to reach out to the iOS team as this is new to me. Would it be possible for either of you ( @Scorponok or @lflucena ) to get a short screen recording of the behavior that I can share with iOS team. For the recording, just open the browser, create a few standard tabs, close the browser, then…

Hey, I unfortunately cannot upload attachment as I’m a new user. Is there any other way I can send this recording to you?

@Scorponok , Apologies — I’ve gone ahead and upgraded your user level and you should be able to upload now. If not, you can always use imgur.com and simply share the link here.

Thanks, here’s the upload. Please let me know if you need any further information.

Same issue here. On iPad Brave 1.62 iPad OS 17.3.1

Apologies for the wait time here — digging into this now. Just to confirm, the Private browsing only option (Menu --> Settings --> Brave Shields & Privacy) is not enabled when you’re seeing this issue — correct?

No worries, I just checked. It is not enabled.

Brave on iPad always opening in private mode

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michal March 8, 2024, 12:36pm 14

It must be the iPad multiwindow bug. We are most likely going to disable multiwindow until Apple figures out their stuff

On iPad, it starts in secret mode

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