Warp: Tab Groups for Project-Based Workspace Organization

Tab Groups Come to Warp

Warp launched Tab Groups in Preview on June 9, 2026, delivering one of the most widely requested workspace organization features in the terminal's history. Developers can now organize their open terminal tabs into named, collapsible groups, whether segmenting work by project, repository, or context. Multiple community-submitted GitHub issues requesting this capability were closed as the feature shipped, confirming that the implementation matches what users had envisioned.

Creating and Managing Groups

Tab Groups work in both the horizontal tab bar at the top of the window and the vertical tabs sidebar introduced in April 2026. To create a group, users shift-click or cmd-click to multi-select tabs, then right-click to choose "Create group from tabs" or "New group with tab." Groups can also be created from a single tab and then expanded by dragging or moving other tabs into them. When a new group is created, it appears in-place rather than jumping to the top of the tab list.

Naming, Coloring, and Collapsing

Each group can be given a custom name and assigned a color, making it easy to distinguish clusters of related sessions at a glance. Groups can be collapsed to a single compact header in the tab bar. When collapsed in the vertical tabs sidebar, a dynamic icon collage, showing up to four deduped pane-kind icons from the group's members, replaces the static chevron, giving users a visual hint of what is inside without requiring expansion.

Persistence Across Restarts

Tab groups survive app restarts. Warp stores group state (name, color, collapsed/expanded status, and member tab list) in the local SQLite session database, mirroring the existing persistence layer already in place for individual tabs. When the application relaunches, groups reappear in the same configuration, with the same member tabs and in the same positions.

Multi-Select Operations

The multi-select system extends beyond group creation. Shift-click selects a range of contiguous tabs; cmd-click toggles individual tabs in or out of a selection. Once multiple tabs are selected, right-clicking exposes group operations: create group, move to existing group, remove from group, available in both the horizontal and vertical tab bar contexts.

Dragging and Reordering

Groups in the horizontal tab bar are draggable as entire units, so a whole cluster of related sessions can be repositioned without disassembling it. Within a group, individual tabs can still be dragged to reorder or moved out of the group entirely.

Why It Matters

For developers who routinely keep many terminal sessions open across different projects, tab sprawl is a real productivity problem. Tab Groups give Warp a native answer to the workspace-organization challenge that browsers solved years ago with their own tab grouping systems, and they integrate cleanly with Warp's existing vertical tabs sidebar, tab color system, and session persistence rather than bolting on a separate mechanism. The feature is currently available in Warp's Preview channel.