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iCloud tabs not syncing
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MBP 2014 - Catalina 10.15.7 (now showing no iCloud tabs whatsoever . Last week showed tabs on iPad & iPhone)
iPad mini 5th Gen - iOS 14.2 (iCloud tab syncing up-to-date with tabs open on MPB. iCloud tab syncing showing old tabs on iPhone)
iPhone SE - iOS 14.2 (no iCloud syncing at all appearing for several months now.
I used to depend on iCloud tab syncing a lot on my iPhone, reading articles or whatever that I knew were open on my MBP or iPad. So annoying and sad that this feature is gone.
For months I have given Apple feedback on the non-syncing issue. No improvement seen on iPhone at all. I'm wondering if I might be signed into iCloud with different passwords, due to changing a password while on one device but not changing it on the others. If so, maybe I should sign out of iCloud on all devices and sign back in.
iPad mini 5th Gen - iOS 14.2 (iCloud tab syncing up-to-date with tabs open on MPB. iCloud tab syncing showing old tabs on iPhone)
iPhone SE - iOS 14.2 (no iCloud syncing at all appearing for several months now.
I used to depend on iCloud tab syncing a lot on my iPhone, reading articles or whatever that I knew were open on my MBP or iPad. So annoying and sad that this feature is gone.
For months I have given Apple feedback on the non-syncing issue. No improvement seen on iPhone at all. I'm wondering if I might be signed into iCloud with different passwords, due to changing a password while on one device but not changing it on the others. If so, maybe I should sign out of iCloud on all devices and sign back in.
Whatever you do, doesn’t matter.
problem will not be resolved unless apple does it at their end.
I still don’t understand why people are trying to fix it at their end when it is patently obvious that it is a problem at Apple. Stop trying to fix it and just report it to them, that’s the only way this debacle is going to be resolved.
Isn't it funny that Macrumors still hasn't posted a story on this? 30 pages of posts, new posts every day, Apple acknowledging the problem to some....
No one cares, i also tried contacting some reviewers on youtube like zollotech. They also simply dont care, they just survive of new os updated apple gives but don’t address some existing problem.
Yes, I have this problem too — and I have good-ish news.
The good part is that Apple has been working with me on this for 3 weeks, spending over 5 hours on the phone with me through 3 versions of iOS. I've sent them gigabytes of data created by downloading special "profiles" and uploading it to their semi-secret website, "Gigafiles." I've given them the ability to view my screen for hours (of course while I was monitoring, and they gave me privacy protections in writing) and they've gotten screenshots on both the iPhone and the Mac.
They said repeately that they are spending a considerable amount of engineering hours on this and have said they will fix this. The representative I've been working with has been extremely responsive and good to work with. She must be one of their very best.
So far, they have learned that the problem is in iCloud, not on my Mac or my iPhone. It does not involve my wifi network, as my wife's Mac and iPhone use the same network without difficulty. We've created new users to rule out any software conflicts. I was told that they believe this affects others. They are being very diligent in tracking this down, and said they hope to have some understanding of why this is happening in the coming week. They actually told me, "This is a feature we developed and our policy is to make all of our features work as intended."
The bad news, of course, is that they haven't resolved the issue as of today.
FYI - Airdrop, Handoff, and continuity all work. It's just the iCloud tabs.
Maybe they are also paid by apple to review the new releases.
No one pays to review the existing issues.
Most of us figured this out within a few days.
How long did it take them to figure this out? Also “they beleive this affects others.”? Looks at the reply count to this thread.
It’s absolute *%#$ isn’t it. As always, Apple talking out of there (we couldn’t give a crap) ass. They’ve only got to look at their own systems to see that it doesn’t work!!
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Is that directed at me? If so would you like me to edit my post?
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No news since my last message. After sending the logs, they said they needed some time to see them, but it’s exactly a month of radio silence. I know that there were the Christma/new year holidays in the middle, but that’s worrying.
Summary: it seems that my iCloud tabs partially sync between 10.30pm and 7.30am GMT+1. Partially because often a couple of them doesn’t sync. Also, my iPhone never showed my iPad tabs, my iPad shows the ones on my iPhone only if I don’t close Safari after I turn it on for the first time, else they don’t show until maybe 1-2pm, if they do.
I don’t have any Mac to test them on a third device.
Summary: it seems that my iCloud tabs partially sync between 10.30pm and 7.30am GMT+1. Partially because often a couple of them doesn’t sync. Also, my iPhone never showed my iPad tabs, my iPad shows the ones on my iPhone only if I don’t close Safari after I turn it on for the first time, else they don’t show until maybe 1-2pm, if they do.
I don’t have any Mac to test them on a third device.
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It’s not just iCloud tabs, pretty much everything built on iCloud is not working as intended except for photos.
Even contacts.
Today I added an email address to one of my contacts on my iPhone. I then tried to compose a mail on my iPad and it couldn’t find the address. I had to go into contacts on iPad, go to the specific contact card, wait a few seconds for the address to sync and show up and then I could go back to mail and add that contact’s mail address. This should’ve happened in the background when I edited the contact on iPhone and be synced and ready for me when I picked up the iPad.
Even contacts.
Today I added an email address to one of my contacts on my iPhone. I then tried to compose a mail on my iPad and it couldn’t find the address. I had to go into contacts on iPad, go to the specific contact card, wait a few seconds for the address to sync and show up and then I could go back to mail and add that contact’s mail address. This should’ve happened in the background when I edited the contact on iPhone and be synced and ready for me when I picked up the iPad.
Maybe Apple stopped some of iCloud services because of high usage all together....
So the 'non important' services will be cut of, that other services do work... Nobody nows. But it's quite annoying at all.
Especially now, when many have to work from home.
So the 'non important' services will be cut of, that other services do work... Nobody nows. But it's quite annoying at all.
Especially now, when many have to work from home.
No, absolutely no way. Their services are rubbish, that’s all.
Looks like... Makes me think about, that Microsoft has better services at all. Have a look at MS Teams comparing to Facetime. It's huge.