How to Reopen a Closed Tab in Chrome

You closed a tab and need it back. Chrome keeps a record of closed tabs for the current session, and there are a few ways to get one back.

Press Ctrl + Shift + T

Press Ctrl + Shift + T (Mac: Cmd + Shift + T). The most recently closed tab reopens in its old position with its history intact, so the back button still works.

Press the shortcut again to go one tab further back. Keep pressing to walk through everything you closed this session. If you closed a whole window, the shortcut restores the entire window at once.

Right-click the tab strip

If you prefer the mouse, right-click an empty area of the tab strip (the bar at the top that holds your tabs) or right-click any open tab, then choose Reopen closed tab. The item is greyed out if nothing has been closed yet in this session.

Open the History menu for a list

Click the three-dot menu at the top right and hover History. The submenu shows a Recently closed section with each tab and window closed during this session, so you can pick one by name instead of cycling through them.

Search the full History page for older tabs

Press Ctrl + H (Mac: Cmd + Y) to open the History page. Type part of the page title or address into the search box and click the result. This works for pages from days ago and after Chrome has been restarted.

Incognito tabs. Tabs closed in an Incognito window are gone. Chrome does not record them, so none of the methods above will bring one back.

On a phone. On Android, open the three-dot menu and tap Recent tabs. The list includes recently closed tabs from this device and open tabs from other devices signed in to the same Google account.