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iCloud tabs not syncing

unkno said:
Good find! You are right, if I 'minimise' Safari on the phone, its almost instant. It must update the list when Safari goes to background. I am not sure if its a bug or feature but compared to how broken it was before, this is acceptable :)
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I’ll mention, that’s the way it’s always worked since the feature was introduced.
 
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Still no go for me as well on any of my devices (M1 MBA, iPhone 12 Pro, iPad Pro). Tried all the "tricks" mentioned over the past 2 weeks....nada.

Interestingly, I installed Cloudy Tabs and that won't pull up anything either. Just stays on "loading".
 
Finally it works on all of my devices!!! As mentioned above, it requires minimization of safari on iOS devices... I think this is probably a smart design, as open tabs that can be closed from other devices may cause conflicts.

Btw, for those who have issues on mac, I suggest you to restart your machine under safeboot mode, which can recover many things broken. At first tabs synced only on my iPhone and iPad, but after turning the Mac on under sfaeboot mode all tabs appeared gradually.
 
Morac said:
I’ll mention, that’s the way it’s always worked since the feature was introduced.
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Possible, tbh I don't recall that being the case, however I never tested it and am probably wrong. Having worked on browsers, when you load a page there is no proper 'page loaded event' as its quite async. However it's easy to run tasks on resource load complete, or when you have the DOM, etc... This seems to be the case for desktop for instance, however on iOS it does indeed seem to be on an event such as appMovedToBackground() which fires when you lock or change to another app. I still think the 2 minutes is way too long for any such task. In any case, glad this is now fixed.
 
13paul13 said:
It’s worked like that for as long as I can remember; you need to not be in Safari on your iPad for the tabs to show on your iPhone for example.
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Maybe I am wrong, but I feel prior to the failure of sync the tabs used to show up on other devices even while the main device has safari open in the foreground.
 
A related question as I am testing this - when does swiping left and deleting/closing a tab that's open on another device work? I know it works if you are on the same WiFi, does it have other restrictions? I have tested it in my house, I can close tabs fine if the phone is on cellular and the Mac is on WiFi. I am wondering if it has a proximity requirement, it seems to me say if I am at work and try and close a tab on my Mac at hoe it does not work?
 
uandme72 said:
Maybe I am wrong
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The problem is everyone is just testing it right now. Meaning they are opening a tab and immediately looking to see if it syncs to their other devices. However with regular usage, if you open a tab, spend a minute or 2 reading the tab and then leaving it on the foreground walked away and continued on your phone, you would see that tab appear under iCloud tabs.
 
suisse said:
working 4 me too
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Still not working for me :-(

None of my tabs are appearing on any devices

It was working periodically earlier today with just 1 correct tab listed among a few ghost tabs which I deleted and now its broken again
 
garethjs said:
The problem is everyone is just testing it right now. Meaning they are opening a tab and immediately looking to see if it syncs to their other devices. However with regular usage, if you open a tab, spend a minute or 2 reading the tab and then leaving it on the foreground walked away and continued on your phone, you would see that tab appear under iCloud tabs.
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But if after opening the safari tab I immediately send the safari into background without waiting for two minutes, it immediately shows the tab on other devices. Perhaps this means the act of sending safari to background is shortening the wait time of syncing the tab to other devices.
 
I have also checked and found that the tabs from one device do not show up on any other device till the safari is not sent to back ground on the first device. The tabs do not sync to other device even of the safari OSD kept on fire ground for more than 10 minutes but immediately syncs the moment safari is sent to background.
 
I've noticed over the past day that the iCloud tabs are doing better at appearing current on my devices. At times they are only a few hours old as opposed to a few days old. But the tabs do still vanish suddenly if I browse on safari on a different device. Maybe what's happening here is that the iCloud servers are "catching up" on a queue connected to my account and that this will begin working for me in the next day or two? It's all very strange tbh.
 
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I'm in Germany and it looks like it's working again. Opening and closing tabs on my iPad appears on my iMac after few seconds and vice versa. Remote closing also works.

Very bad policy from Apple not to mention anything. We are the customers. Don't they depend on us? But what to expect from companies that make billions but don't pay taxes...
 
garethjs said:
The problem is everyone is just testing it right now. Meaning they are opening a tab and immediately looking to see if it syncs to their other devices. However with regular usage, if you open a tab, spend a minute or 2 reading the tab and then leaving it on the foreground walked away and continued on your phone, you would see that tab appear under iCloud tabs.
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When I tested it, I did two things: 1) I checked on my iPhone to see there is not iCloud tabs. I opened a page on my Mac, then I can see the page on my iPhone's iCloud tab. 2) I close the page on my iPhone's iCloud tab and it closes it on my Mac. These two things make me think that the iCloud tab sync is working again.
 
StumpyBloke said:
No, absolutely no way. Their services are rubbish, that’s all.
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You're joking right? iCloud as a cloud drive destroys every "cloud" drive I have ever used. I am ALMOST back to removing OneDrive, and putting things back on iCloud. I took all my Office Docs off and put them on OneDrive (the updating popups have stopped, so OneDrive as a secondary is OK). I mean I pretty much stopped using Linux as a triple boot or 2ndary boot because GoogleDrive was so pathetic.

iCloud Drive (#1)
Dropbox (2) (this is only used for transfers to people, because of their new Device limit, stupid)
OneDrive (3)
Google Drive (4)

And Contacts... hmm, yeah insanely great, been using that for over 15 years NO PROBLEMS!

NOTE (added): Oh and yeah all iCloud Tabs are working now, except in High Sierra.
But I have over 10 years of Bookmarks, and History, in my Safari (checkbox) in iCloud so...
 
rezwits said:
You're joking right? iCloud as a cloud drive destroys every "cloud" drive I have ever used. I am ALMOST back to removing OneDrive, and putting things back on iCloud. I took all my Office Docs off and put them on OneDrive (the updating popups have stopped, so OneDrive as a secondary is OK). I mean I pretty much stopped using Linux as a triple boot or 2ndary boot because GoogleDrive was so pathetic.

iCloud Drive (#1)
Dropbox (2) (this is only used for transfers to people, because of their new Device limit, stupid)
OneDrive (3)
Google Drive (4)

And Contacts... hmm, yeah insanely great, been using that for over 15 years NO PROBLEMS!

NOTE (added): Oh and yeah all iCloud Tabs are working now, except in High Sierra.
But I have over 10 years of Bookmarks, and History, in my Safari (checkbox) in iCloud so...
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A) No I’m not joking
B) I’m glad you’re happy with it
C) I will stick to my opinion (for now...)
 
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still not working for me in big sur and iOS 4.3. When it broke it broke for everyone at the same time. And now when it’s “fixed” seems to be only for a few
 
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