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iCloud tabs not syncing

Same! Having these issues! My current iCloud Tabs aren’t showing up at all on any of my devices. What’s worse is only old, already-closed tabs are showing up. Sometimes these old tabs show up on one device and not the other. Frustrating! Tried every troubleshooting step. Support is useless here cause they’re treating me like I‘m amateur hour. Filing a radar seems to be the only shot. Whether that gets addressed is another issue entirely. :(
 
Just got off the phone with Apple support. They basically insist they have no issues on their system. They will not escalate further. The system support guy will research on iCloud further before calling me back on Friday. But they insisting it’s my device fault. Is frustrating when it is obviously a backend issue. I hope everyone will call and file support requests
 
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Same issue. Variety of iCloud devices, and all randomly show history from hours and days ago. Apple should be embarrassed that their flagship browser on all of their devices using their cloud technology cannot even properly handoff open tabs.
 
Ha, count me in. Syncing fine between iPhone and iPad but my Mojave machine is several hours behind.
 
Just another "me too" post. Catalina 10.15.7, iOS 14.2 and iPadOS 14.2 devices. I was seeing different ancient tabs opened on the iCloud tabs sections of each device. I turned off Safari sync in my iCloud settings on each device and cleared out history on each device before turning Safari sync back on. I turned on sync on the Mac first and then the iPhone and iPad devices. The iPhone and iPad now show the same ancient tab open on the Mac which hasn't been open in some time. At least it's consistent?? ¯\(ツ)/¯

This is mildly disturbing because Apple of course prides itself on its privacy and security practices and yet these ancient remnants of deleted history remain. I closed these tabs and I trust they they are in fact closed and yet Apple's servers are saying otherwise. It erodes that trust just a pinch. This is analogous in a way to the CarPlay Messages bug that shows ancient message threads that aren't even visible on the phone.
 
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How is your icloud keychain doing?
I registered on macrumors to post in this thread on Saturday, and just noticed that password still did’t sync from my mac to my other devices...
Had similar issues w keychain in the past, it was easy to repair by opening other apps that use icloud, such as calendar. Now nothing helps.
 
Same issue here.

It looks like a significant delay, since the tab list was actually yesterday's.
 
It seems lately that tabs I open show up on the iCloud tabs on other devices within a few hours, but never go away. I keep manually deleting them off my other devices.
 
Same here. Tabs started to appear across all my devices but are very outdated, by several days. Closed tabs keep appearing as active on other devices.
 
For anyone suggesting it is a issue with an OS, mobile or otherwise, you are not paying attention. This is clearly a iCloud service issue.

Also, please check again, because as of about an hour ago, I noticed my Safari tabs are now synching reliably. Hoping it stays like this, but won't think this is fixed until the new reports stop coming in. I do not want to celebrate a fix too early.
 
First post, also having this issue.

I think the problem is in iCloud sync jobs. I believe their queue is completely out of control that is why the jobs are processed by delay. FWIW, I called the missus with FaceTime and she got the call after a few minutes, after I had hung up...

Considering its a problem with the scheduled jobs in iCloud in general, I don't know how they could fix it. I assume they could just clear the whole queue but that would cause issues too, also now they are trying to do conflict resolution I guess which adds a cherry on top. Moreover, that would not fix the root cause, most likely.

All in all, I wonder when they will fix this issue. If you want to dig little bit deeper, enable the 'Debug' menu in Safari, with:

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu 1

Now you can force sync 'iCloud History' however it will just push it to the queue... I would really appreciate Apple to be more transparent with these issues as this bug has really messed up my workflow and I can't do anything about it.
 
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unkno said:
First post, also having this issue.

I think the problem is in iCloud sync jobs. I believe their queue is completely out of control that is why the jobs are processed by delay. FWIW, I called the missus with FaceTime and she got the call after a few minutes, after I had hung up...

Considering its a problem with the scheduled jobs in iCloud in general, I don't know how they could fix it. I assume they could just clear the whole queue but that would cause issues too, also now they are trying to do conflict resolution I guess which adds a cherry on top. Moreover, that would not fix the root cause, most likely.

All in all, I wonder when they will fix this issue. If you want to dig little bit deeper, enable the 'Debug' menu in Safari, with:

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu 1

Now you can force sync 'iCloud History' however it will just push it to the queue... I would really appreciate Apple to be more transparent with these issues as this bug has really messed up my workflow and I can't do anything about it.
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I think you called it. And by the way, no sooner than posted, I saw a few old tabs pop, so I am not celebrating.

The force sync is interesting. Their queues must be so backlogged!
 
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For anyone suggesting it is a issue with an OS, mobile or otherwise, you are not paying attention. This is clearly a iCloud service issue.

Also, please check again, because as of about an hour ago, I noticed my Safari tabs are now synching reliably. Hoping it stays like this, but won't think this is fixed until the new reports stop coming in. I do not want to celebrate a fix too early.
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:rolleyes:
 
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