Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
iCloud tabs not syncing
- Thread starter Morac
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Anything further from Apple?
Has anyone else filed a bug report (and if so, under what product)?
I haven’t actually contacted Apple as I figured they’d fix it at some point and I didn’t want to go through the song and dance of having them tell me to wipe all my devices and set them up as new.
I'm also having syncing issues with iCloud Tabs as of the past couple days.. even tried disabling and re-enabling Safari iCloud syncing across all of my devices but it didn't make a difference.
Same happened to me. iCloud tabs show tabs opened long time ago and not the ones currently open on other devices. I did not remember when it began exactly but likely some time last week. I tried to disable and enable Safari on iCloud on both Mac and iPhone. That did not help.
Wow, it's just broken all over the place.
I just upgraded my work laptop to Big Sur, and I have a completely different set of tabs showing up than I actually have on my other machine. It's a mix of old and new tabs, including some tabs I haven't had open for a week (election day stuff).
Wonder what they changed that it's so broken.
I just upgraded my work laptop to Big Sur, and I have a completely different set of tabs showing up than I actually have on my other machine. It's a mix of old and new tabs, including some tabs I haven't had open for a week (election day stuff).
Wonder what they changed that it's so broken.
I decide to tweet at AppleSupport. I don’t think anything will come from it, but it’s something.
Nothing has to have been changed. Between your iCloud data and your device is intermediary, regional server caches. If the caches are failing to update in a particular category, then iCloud will have your correct list of open tabs but one or the other of your devices will be syncing to an out of date cache. In such a case it will self-resolve once Apple becomes aware of it, without any "change" to iCloud or OS 14.
I've submitted feedback (https://www.apple.com/feedback/icloud.html) and mentioned this thread. I'm sure other people have too, but more user reports can only help with drawing attention.
There are 2 threads on apple-discussions:
discussions.apple.com
discussions.apple.com
Safari iOS 14.2 - Apple Community
Cross-device browser sync behaves weirdly… - Apple Community
I plugged my phone in to my Mac to sync and the dialogue box on this article (https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT208831) appeared. I installed it and noticed the open tab shown on my phone and iPad changed to that tab. I've watched tabs closed around 60 hours ago dribble in throughout today. I hope this suggests some progress to see a tab so recently opened appear. At present the problem remains, but perhaps our comments have been noted and a fix of sorts is being organised?
I started noticing this issue this past weekend as well. I'm using iOS 13.5 and Mojave 10.14.6 with safari 14.0 (14610.1.28.1.10). I'm seeing really old tabs from my MBP on my iPhone, and not seeing any iPhone tabs on my MBP. I haven't done any updates recently to either device.
Same here. Wildly out of sync– some tabs that were closed days ago showing on random devices, some new tabs showing up, others not at all. Some devices not syncing at all. MBP on 11.0.1 (though I first noticed it on Catalina last week), iPhone XR on 14.2, and iPad Air 2 on 14.2. Whole thing's a cluster****. I've turned off all Safari syncing in iCloud on all devices for now. Will try again tomorrow.
Yeah I have Big Sur, and latest iOS updates and its occurring with all of them as well. it shows stuff from the prior day and is not current.