Can I delete my bookmarks from iCloud?

[StuMcBill]

I've just sorted out my bookmarks on my Mac, and uploaded them to Xmarks, however, for some reason my bookmarks/favourites keep being overwritten, presumably from iCloud.

Is there anyway I can delete the iCloud bookmarks, or can I force overwrite them with my Safari bookmarks on my Mac, and therefore sync them with my iPhone and iPad?

Thanks,
Stewart

 

[Brookzy]

Yes.

I'm going to assume your Mac, iPhone, and iPad all use the same iCloud account. In which case:

• On your Mac, go to iCloud preferences, and uncheck Safari.
• On your iPhone, delete all your bookmarks. They hide in lots of places so make sure you delete them all (e.g. 'Bookmarks Bar', 'Bookmarks Menu')
• Wait a good 15 minutes and check your iPad. Have the bookmarks been deleted from there too? If yes, proceed, if not, wait longer until they delete themselves (don't manually delete them - iCloud will get very confused if you do that)
• On your Mac, re-check Safari and press OK when you are warned that your current bookmarks will be uploaded and merged with iCloud.

Job done.

 

[StuMcBill]

Yes.

I'm going to assume your Mac, iPhone, and iPad all use the same iCloud account. In which case:

• On your Mac, go to iCloud preferences, and uncheck Safari.
• On your iPhone, delete all your bookmarks. They hide in lots of places so make sure you delete them all (e.g. 'Bookmarks Bar', 'Bookmarks Menu')
• Wait a good 15 minutes and check your iPad. Have the bookmarks been deleted from there too? If yes, proceed, if not, wait longer until they delete themselves (don't manually delete them - iCloud will get very confused if you do that)
• On your Mac, re-check Safari and press OK when you are warned that your current bookmarks will be uploaded and merged with iCloud.

Job done.

Thanks mate, that worked perfectly!!

 

[djxpress]

Yes.

I'm going to assume your Mac, iPhone, and iPad all use the same iCloud account. In which case:

• On your Mac, go to iCloud preferences, and uncheck Safari.
• On your iPhone, delete all your bookmarks. They hide in lots of places so make sure you delete them all (e.g. 'Bookmarks Bar', 'Bookmarks Menu')
• Wait a good 15 minutes and check your iPad. Have the bookmarks been deleted from there too? If yes, proceed, if not, wait longer until they delete themselves (don't manually delete them - iCloud will get very confused if you do that)
• On your Mac, re-check Safari and press OK when you are warned that your current bookmarks will be uploaded and merged with iCloud.

Job done.

This still works today! Easiest method out there, had the same problem with syncing on my PC and Mac. I use syncmarx on my PC (Chrome/Firefox) and the PC iCloud sync app (in the taskbar) and I'd keep getting these weird overwrites where it would pull from iCloud bookmarks and mess everything up. Deleted the bookmarks from iCloud on all devices, repulled my proper bookmarks from syncmarx and then everything repulled from iCloud to Safari on my iPhone, iPad, and Macbook Pro.