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iCloud tabs not syncing
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So, some good news. I just heard back from the Apple support tech who I have been working with. He informed me that Apple engineering is aware of this issue, and they are working on a fix. No ETA was provided, but I'm glad that it at least reached their desks.
i have scheduled call with Apple support today regarding this issue. It has been 3 weeks now. Good thing is (and it is temporary) that there is a was around it. Add important www to reading list. And pick them up from any Apple device.
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Have some intel about it... just finished the call with Apple support.
no news... but again they all know about it and working hard to fix it. The issue is in Cloud/Safari tabs sync. All other Cloud sync run perfect. Well, on my computers and Iphone these work well. I was told that it is important that all people report it.
Edit:
Have some intel about it... just finished the call with Apple support.
no news... but again they all know about it and working hard to fix it. The issue is in Cloud/Safari tabs sync. All other Cloud sync run perfect. Well, on my computers and Iphone these work well. I was told that it is important that all people report it.
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Good gravy, you'd think they actually use their own systems and would have figured this out long before now.
This is the bit I don’t get, surely some of the thousands of people who probably work in Apple engineering alone use this feature and know it’s not working correctly.
So ah, I think iCloud tabs is going away. Here is why I suggest this may be the case....
Apart from the fact, it is all screwed up. Go to your iCloud options on Big Sur for example, uncheck Safari. When you go to recheck it, the dialog box is different I think. (going from memory so don't developer nerd crucify me if I am wrong...I am old and I drink sometimes...). Anyways, it reads now as below, which says NOTHING about synching tabs.
Apart from the fact, it is all screwed up. Go to your iCloud options on Big Sur for example, uncheck Safari. When you go to recheck it, the dialog box is different I think. (going from memory so don't developer nerd crucify me if I am wrong...I am old and I drink sometimes...). Anyways, it reads now as below, which says NOTHING about synching tabs.
And yeah, regarding my previous post above, I get that there are even recently published knowledge articles from Apple about how to use iCloud tabs. What if we caught them in the middle of deprecating traditional tabs and moving it more to "Siri" suggestions? This is a complete guess, just hard to understand how this breaks, and that the in-product/device descriptions don't really talk about tabs anymore. And the iCloud tab toolbar icon is just completely non-working. You know what, I am sleep deprived. I'm going to bed.
I think that might be a stretch, that same wording was used before. See the screenshot (and dates) in this thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8511561
I think it's because the tab aren't stored on the iCloud servers and they are just pushed and synced to other devices. So when you remove safari from iCloud the only data it has to leave behind are bookmarks and reading lists.
This does not seem to be true.
for if we log out from iCloud ID on all Apple devices, then your claim will imply complete decimation of all tabs without any ability of restoration On any device in future. But the contrary actually happens- even if we logout of all Apple devices from Apple ID, and then login after a few days, it used to restore all icloud tabs. although currently nothing is working.
Based on what I've read recently, the difference is that iCloud Tabs and Safari History are E2E encrypted, but Bookmarks and Reading List are not. I don't know that that's why bookmark sync isn't broken since history sync seems to be working, but that's the distinction between how Safari/iCloud handles those types of lists.
Yeah, I was meaning to say, I think the feature was being changed or deprecated.
I just bought a brand new m1 macbook air and icloud tabs is completely broken. This is absolutely ridiculous. I will have go back to using chrome if this keep ups. Its very odd the icloud tab isnt even on safari by default you have to add the icon. This feature can not be deprecated its a very useful feature id think for a lot of people.
you can temporarily use reading list (reading glasses - (+). ) to save your important www. Then pick up in other Apple device.
I've just got my m1 MacBook Pro on the 2nd of this month... Safari tabs worked for a few days, then just stopped. I was scared at first, cause I thought that I messed something up (I may or may not have tried to test out FCP 10.5 and photoshop 2021.) It's good and bad to know others are having the same issue.
Slight side-note... Anyone having issues with continuity camera and other features?
Slight side-note... Anyone having issues with continuity camera and other features?
So this was reported more than a month ago (9th Nov): no acknowledgement from Apple (all green on status page), no ETA on a fix, ~20 pages of people saying '+1' and still not in the front page of macrumors or any other media for that matter. What gives?
I have the same problem with my iPad Air 2 iOS 14.2. iPhone and my MAC Book the iCloud tabs work fine. No list of the tabs open on my other devices on the iPad, whilst on the iPhone and MAC it shows a very long list of tabs for the iPad going back about 6 months! I spent over an hour on the phone to Apple yesterday before they finally accepted that logging out of the iCloud ID and back into it again wasn’t going to solve the problem. Eventually it has been referred and I should get an update on Monday. Let’s wait and see what they say........