It's possible to reorder tabs in iOS Safari without dropping into grid view, too. If you drag-and-drop tags on the tag bar during normal browsing, that works too, no dropping-into-grid-view required. (And I'd be in favor of Orion supporting this too; this is the tab-reordering method I tend to use, in practice, when using Safari.)
Brief Summary
Orion should support drag and drop to move/arrange tabs in Grid Tab View.
Details:
Safari on iOS supports this feature. Currently, holding on a tab card and moving it does nothing in Orion. This feature should help Orion feel more fluid and intuitive.
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Similar suggestion for Orion desktop: https://orionfeedback.org/d/4892-allow-arranging-order-of-tabs-in-tab-overview
On the iOS app for both iPad and iPhones, you can't reorder the tabs. You can't drag them to a different order in the standard view on iPads, nor in the Tab View for either device.
I'm currently on version 1.3.7 (15) on iOS 17.3 on an iPhone 15 Pro Max and iPadOS 17.3 on an iPad Pro (12.-inch) (5th generation). But this have never worked to my knowledge so maybe it's a feature request and not a bug?
A user would use this feature to change the order of the tabs by doing a long touch on the tab and dragging it into a new place in the tab order, either in the tab bar on iPads or in tab view in either an iPad or iPhone.
Safari, Firefox, Brave, and Chrome all include this feature on iOS/iPadOS. I think it only works in tab view on iPhones.
The tab view on ipad works now!
working for me as well on iOS, seems to only be for the grid tab switcher though, not sidebar
Reordering still seems broken as of latest update on iOS, at least within the tab bar. When I press-and-hold-and-drag a tab on the bar, it previews as if it's going to reorder, but letting go doesn't cause any reordering to happen, it just causes the UI to revert back to its pre-preview state.
I can supply video, yup! Here you go.
(Video description: display of the Orion browser on iPad, with two tabs open, one (left) Kagi Search and one (right) Orion Browser. First, the left tab is dragged right and released; it snaps back into left position, for net zero change. Next, the right tab is dragged left and then released; it snaps back similarly, for also net zero change.)
Hi Tulip, thank you for the video and thank you for taking the time to report this bug!
Would you be able to share in which version of Orion you're seeing this? Any extension, or any interesting setting that could get in the way?
Thank you for your help in making Orion a better browser!
jeanetienne Orion version is 1.3.19 (10) (WebKit 8615.8.1.10.1). (Running on iPadOS version 16.7.10 (20H350).) My only installed extension is TWP - Translate Web Pages; disabling it doesn't resolve the issue.
In terms of settings, it's been a while since I did settings-configuration in my Orion install, so I don't have much specific memory of what I set, but I at least don't remember changing anything which struck me as likely to cause problems here. (I'd likely have deliberately avoided it, since inability to reorder tabs has been pretty actively among my main impediments from using Orion as my day-to-day default browser on my tablet.)
Tulip thank you for the extra details. It helped me reproduce the issue and realised we have already fixed it as part of another tab-related improvement (note for Kagi staff ORIMO-224).
This should be available in the next App Store release!
Thank you for your help in making Orion a better browser!
