Wow. They finally updated iCloud on Windows and either updated Chrome extension and/or the update seems to have broken bookmarks sync. Anyone else?
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iCloud iCloud Windows update broke Chrome Bookmarks sync
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I've not used it yet but it looks like they updated the extension. Not surprised it broke the sync. Is the extension meant to have a two-way sync or just Safari->Chrome?
Used to be two way. Still not working as of yesterday. Bet it requires another update.
Bump..... is this still broken? I have the iCloud bookmarks extension in Chrome on Windows 11 and it claims the bookmarks are synced to iCloud. The bookmarks checkbox in iCoud for Windows is checked. iCloud bookmarks is ON in SETTINGS on the iPad. Safari on the iPad does show bookmarks it got from iCloud. However, those bookmarks are not current.
I was thinking that I missed something but maybe it is just.... broken?
Is there a workaround? I have my Chrome bookmarks saved as an HTML file but I don't think there is a way to get those bookmarks into iCloud or onto the iPad because I don't have a Mac?
No idea but I found this review in googling and its from this past March, so its fairly recent.
Is iCloud for Windows really as good as Apple says it is?
It seems that that author was dealing with photo integration and it was giving him a headache. I wouldn't want photo integration, so I wonder how good/bad/mediocre the other components would be.
I use chrome, as its cross platform, so I gain nothing with iCloud managing my bookmarks, the only reason for me to use it, would be to access the icloud drive but I store my data on OneDrive.
I found this article that seems to describe the reason why iCloud bookmark sync for Windows Chrome does not function as expected (if at all). He states that bookmarks are not sent directly to iCloud. Instead, they are synced with "transactions". But if iCloud receives a transaction for a bookmark that has already changed or been deleted, the sync fails.
If what he says is accurate, bookmark sync can stop or behave erratically if iCloud gets out of sync with Windows. This was the case for me.... I had synced a year or two ago and then uninstalled the Chrome extension. In the mean time, many bookmarks were edited / moved / deleted. So when I tried syncing again yesterday, the sync from Chrome to iCloud failed. So I tried the following:
With the Chrome extension uninstalled and bookmark sync disabled in iCloud for Windows, I deleted all bookmarks from my iPhone and iPad (still set to sync with iCloud). I then re-enabled bookmark sync in iCloud for Windows and installed the Chrome extension. Nothing happened (or I did not wait long enough) so I rebooted the Windows machine and after reboot, all my Chrome bookmarks appeared in the iPhone and iPad.
If what he says is accurate, bookmark sync can stop or behave erratically if iCloud gets out of sync with Windows. This was the case for me.... I had synced a year or two ago and then uninstalled the Chrome extension. In the mean time, many bookmarks were edited / moved / deleted. So when I tried syncing again yesterday, the sync from Chrome to iCloud failed. So I tried the following:
With the Chrome extension uninstalled and bookmark sync disabled in iCloud for Windows, I deleted all bookmarks from my iPhone and iPad (still set to sync with iCloud). I then re-enabled bookmark sync in iCloud for Windows and installed the Chrome extension. Nothing happened (or I did not wait long enough) so I rebooted the Windows machine and after reboot, all my Chrome bookmarks appeared in the iPhone and iPad.