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my pinned tabs disappeared and I cannot even see them on my history

Adelheid Bartilla 40 Reputation points
2026-03-29T12:27:06.2433333+00:00

I pinned specific tabs on my Microsoft edge and on opening the laptop again, other tabs yet the pinned ones have disappeared

Microsoft Edge | Tabs, address bar, and search | Windows 10

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Hendrix-V 15,525 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
2026-03-30T03:10:04.5666667+00:00

Hi Adelheid Bartilla,

Thank you for reaching out. I understand how inconvenient it can be when pinned tabs are no longer available after reopening Microsoft Edge. In some situations, pinned tabs may not reappear if the browser session was not fully restored or if multiple Edge windows were closed in a specific order. You can try the following checking steps and workarounds:

  • Open Microsoft Edge > Settings
  • Go to Start, home, and new tabs
  • Under When Edge starts, select Open tabs from the previous session

If the pinned tabs are missing

  • Open History (Ctrl + H) and check Recently closed
  • Reopen the needed pages and pin them again

As preventive workaround, you can save frequently used pinned sites to Favorites, or

  • Go to Settings > Start, home, and new tabs > Open custom sites on startup then add the URLs you always want to open

These options help ensure quick access to important sites even if pinned tabs do not restore as expected.

Let me know if you need further assistance, feel free to ask me by clicking "Add Comment" or "Add Answer" if you cannot add comment so your response will be visible. Thanks for your effort.

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2026-03-29T12:29:19.6166667+00:00

Pinned tabs in Microsoft Edge are part of the current browsing session, not a separate, backed‑up list like Favorites or Reading list. When a session is lost (for example due to a crash, profile change, sign‑out, or certain settings), pinned tabs can disappear and they will not show up separately in History. Only the sites that were actually visited appear in History, and there is no special “pinned tabs” history view to restore them as a group.

To reduce the risk of losing important pinned tabs in the future and improve recovery options:

  1. Save important pinned sites as Favorites
    • Open each site that needs to be kept.
    • Select Settings and more (… ) > Add to favorites.
    • Optionally create a folder (for example, “Pinned tabs”) so they can be reopened together.
    • This works because Edge keeps Favorites even when sessions are lost, and older features such as Reading list and “Tabs you set aside” were also migrated into Favorites.
  2. Configure Edge to reopen previous tabs on startup
    • Go to Settings and more (… ) > Settings > Start, home, and new tab page.
    • Select Open tabs from the previous session.
    • With this enabled, Edge will reopen the last session’s tabs (including pinned ones) on startup, as long as the session data has not been cleared.
  3. Be aware of limits to session restore
    • If browsing data is configured to be cleared on close, the content of the session can be removed even when “Open tabs from the previous session” is selected; only the URLs needed for the next startup are kept.
    • Tabs from InPrivate or Guest mode are never restored on startup.
  4. If Edge is not reliably restoring tabs
    • If tabs (including pinned ones) frequently fail to restore even with the startup setting enabled, repair Edge:
      1. Close Edge for all users.
      2. Open Start > Settings > Apps > Installed apps.
      3. Select Microsoft Edge > Modify.
      4. Approve the prompt and choose Repair.
    • This keeps browser data and settings but can fix issues that prevent normal session behavior.

Because pinned tabs are session‑based, once they are gone and not present in the current session or visible in History, Edge does not provide a built‑in way to reconstruct that exact pinned set. Using Favorites (and folders) plus the “Open tabs from the previous session” startup option is the supported way to keep important sites from being lost.

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