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Welcome to the 'Closing unused websites on an Android phone' video course. In this video, you'll learn how to see which websites are open in the browser on your Android phone, and close the ones you no longer need. The steps will be similar on an Android tablet.
Closing websites you're not using can help your browser run smoothly, and your phone perform at its best. For this demonstration, we'll use the Chrome browser, which is installed on all Android phones. From the Home screen, look for the Chrome app icon. It looks like a red, green, yellow and blue circle. If you can't see it, swipe up from the bottom and look for it on the Apps screen. Tap the Chrome icon to open it.
When you have more than one website open, Chrome keeps each site in its own tab, like pages in a book. Look at the top of the Chrome screen for a small square icon with a number inside it. This number shows how many tabs or websites are open. Tap the Tabs icon once. A grid of thumbnails or small images will display, each showing a preview of one open website.
To close a single website, swipe it sideways or tap the cross in the top right corner of its thumbnail. To close all open websites at once, tap the More menu at the top right. It looks like three vertical dots. From the menu that appears, tap Close all tabs then tap 'Close all tabs and groups' to confirm. A blank Chrome page will display at the top. The Tabs icon is empty, so there are no open web pages.