How to Send a Tab Group to Another Device in Chrome

Chrome's tab groups menu has a line easy to skim past: Send group to your devices. It doesn't collapse, close, or rename anything — it pushes the whole group, tabs and all, to wherever else you're signed in. It's one of the more genuinely useful cross-device tricks Chrome ships, and one of the least discoverable.

How to send a tab group to another device

1. Right-click the tab group's colored label — the small pill with the group's name, to the left of its first tab.
2. Choose Send group to your devices.
3. Pick a device from the list of everywhere else you're signed into Chrome with sync on.
4. Chrome pushes every tab in the group to that device. It shows up as a notification there, or under Recent Tabs / History → "Tabs from other devices" if you miss the notification.

The option only appears if you're signed into Chrome and sync is turned on — a signed-out profile, or one with sync paused, won't show it in the group menu at all.

What actually gets sent

Every tab currently in the group, in order, goes to the destination device — not a link to the group on this device, and not a live mirror that stays in sync afterward. It's closer to a one-time package: the moment you click a device, that snapshot of the group's tabs travels there, and further changes to the group on your original device don't follow.

That distinction matters for a specific case: if you add three more tabs to the group after sending it, the receiving device doesn't get those three automatically. You'd send it again to bring the group up to date.

The device has to eventually come online — but doesn't need to right now

You don't need the target device open and waiting at the moment you click Send. Most current Chrome versions queue the transfer against your account and deliver it the next time that device is signed in and connects — useful for "send this to my laptop before I get home," even if the laptop is closed right now. The tradeoff: there's no confirmation on the sending side that it actually arrived, so for anything time-sensitive, it's worth a follow-up check once you're at the other device.

One tab vs. the whole group

The group-level Send group to your devices option sits in the group's own right-click menu. A single tab — grouped or not — has its own separate Send to your devices option in its individual right-click menu. Use whichever scope matches what you actually want moved: the one page, or everything in the group around it.

Where this breaks down

• Chrome-to-Chrome only. The receiving side has to be Chrome, signed into the same Google account. Safari, Firefox, and Edge have no way to receive it.
• A push, not a shared workspace. Both devices don't end up looking at the same live group — the receiving device gets its own independent copy of the tabs at the moment you sent them.
• No history of what you've sent. There's no log of past sends to check whether a particular group already made it to a given device, or when.
• Nothing to search. Once the tabs land, they're just open tabs on the other device — there's no keyword search across everything you've ever sent yourself this way.

For "I want this specific group open somewhere else right now," Send group to your devices is the fastest native option. For "I want to find any tab I've ever saved, from any device, whenever I need it" — that's a different job.

Amazing Tabs is built for the second one:

• Save a tab group's worth of tabs to your account instead of pushing them device-to-device — they're there whether the receiving device is a laptop, a different browser, or one you haven't set up yet.
• Search everything you've saved with ⌘K / Ctrl+K, across every device you've signed into — no digging through Recent Tabs notifications.
• Free for up to 100 saved links, so you can try it on the next group you'd otherwise have sent device-to-device.

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Quick recap

• Right-click a group's label → "Send group to your devices" pushes every tab in it to another signed-in device.
• It's a one-time snapshot, not a live sync — tabs added to the group afterward don't follow automatically.
• The target device doesn't need to be open right now — most versions deliver it once that device is next online.
• A separate "Send to your devices" option exists on individual tabs, for sending just one page instead of a whole group.
• Chrome-to-Chrome only, same signed-in account, with no history log or search across past sends.

Further reading: How to Sync Tabs Between Devices for the broader cross-device picture, How to Use Tab Groups in Chrome for creating and managing groups from scratch, or How to Duplicate a Tab Group in Chrome for the rest of that same right-click menu.

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