iPhone & iPad are showing the correct iCloud Tabs for me, it’s an M1 MBP and an Intel Mac mini that are showing incorrect tabs for me.
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iOS 17.4 iCloud tabs syncing bug
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I'm getting this Error on both my M1 MBP and Intel Mac mini whenever I try to save a New Bookmark or even edit the order of Bookmarks.
For what it's worth, I've been able to "fix" this issue by logging out and completely erasing and restoring my device or setting up as new.... Until it happens again.
Again, there's a VERY LONG THREAD of people having this exact same issue. It's been ongoing for years, and nearly everyone I've encountered that's had this issue over the last 3 or so years has reported that it's happened again. Please feel free to reference FB13719000, FB11976762, FB12045859, FB9079110, FB8962355...
I'm now seeing on my M1 MBP that I have this post open on my iPhone, and I do not LOL
Funnily enough, I'm not seeing the above message on my M2 MBP. I simply can't move websites to bookmark favourite tabs on my Mac or iPhone. But it was working really well a couple of weeks ago.
Annoyingly, only reason why I started moving websites into separate tabs is I got told off by my wife OCD wife for having 78 tabs open! It was all going so well to, up until a few days ago.
Annoyingly, only reason why I started moving websites into separate tabs is I got told off by my wife OCD wife for having 78 tabs open! It was all going so well to, up until a few days ago.
A bit of an update. I said I wouldn't bother with this issue until the next update, but as I had a bit of time... 😆
I just went into my iPhone and turned off Safari in iCloud and then back on. Then did the same on my Mac.
On my Mac, I can now see all the websites on the 6 Favourite Tabbed groups
On my iPhone it's not so good. I can see all 6 groups but only 4 of them have any website within them.
At least it's better than it was earlier.
For me macOS is correctly reporting its iCloud Tabs (none when all tabs are closed), whereas iOS/iPadOS is not. This is clear with my iPhone and iPad. They both will show the wrong tabs for each other. But they won’t show Mac tabs, because macOS is syncing its own tabs correctly.
my App i use for Notes Notebooks, a hitherto fantastic App has become unusable since 17.4
all due to 17.4 syncing bug
Ghost tabs weren’t removed on iOS 17.5. I have 2 showing up on my iOS device from macOS that are still there after updating
You would assume that it can’t be too hard every update to regenerate the list but I guess not.
My only solution now is to turn off safari sync on iOS and then turn it back on
Signing out of iCloud for Safari on either of my Macs and waiting has no impact for me. I signed out of both Macs an hour ago and just signed back in. No change. Bookmarks aren't syncing. Reading List is not syncing. At one point my History would even show up across devices, but it's been a few years since that happened on my end.
I tried this, but no dice. The only way I can get an iOS or iPadOS Safari tab to show or clear on another device is to force quit the iOS or iPadOS Safari. I don't even need to reopen the Safari app. Force quit forces the sync but changing the webpage does not. iCloud tabs sourced from MacOS are still solid though.It wasn't fixed for me too, then I disabled iCloud Safari sync on both iOS devices and MacOs ones, waited at least 5 minutes, re-enabled the sync and now it's functioning properly
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You shouldn’t need to force quit iOS Safari to sync. Simply going back to the Home Screen will work. Unlike Safari for MacOS, iOS Safari tabs won’t sync when the app is open and visible.
Thanks for the info. I had to open a ticket as there seems to be additional iCloud-related issues which I hadn't noticed.