It will continue to recur unless you reset your iCloud keychain end to end encryption data.
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Safari iCloud tabs duplicate issue
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It’s not a significant enough issue to possibly losing all my keychain data and not to mention having to resync everything including 50GB of photos to my computers after signing out of iCloud.
Are u telling me the few here and perhaps a lot more out there magically corrupted our iCloud Keychain at the same time on the same day?
I highly doubt that
how is iCloud keychain in anyway related to safari tabs?
Set up and use iCloud Tabs – Apple Support (AU)
iCloud keeps the tabs you have open in Safari up to date on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Mac. That means you can go from one device to the next and pick up browsing wherever you left off.
and why has it sporadically started to work again?
I know the link quoted by you.Are u telling me the few here and perhaps a lot more out there magically corrupted our iCloud Keychain at the same time on the same day?
I highly doubt that
how is iCloud keychain in anyway related to safari tabs?
Set up and use iCloud Tabs – Apple Support (AU)
iCloud keeps the tabs you have open in Safari up to date on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Mac. That means you can go from one device to the next and pick up browsing wherever you left off.support.apple.com
and why has it sporadically started to work again?
Keychain is linked to Tabs, Messages in iCloud.
broken again.
Has anyone tried just turning off keychain and then re-enabling it.
Everything else works perfectly fine. Keychain syncs wonderfully as well among all my devices.
Also iPad and iPhone have no issue whatsoever
Has anyone tried just turning off keychain and then re-enabling it.
Everything else works perfectly fine. Keychain syncs wonderfully as well among all my devices.
Also iPad and iPhone have no issue whatsoever
so if it was a encryption issue then how is it when I physically close a tab it deletes it from iCloud tabs and that sync properly across devices.
The issue only truely arises when you have tabs open and the system goes into standby by itself or you physically close safari with tabs open.
The issue only truely arises when you have tabs open and the system goes into standby by itself or you physically close safari with tabs open.
I'm also seeing this. Speculation, but seems likely that since apps like Safari don't usually quit on iOS the way they do on macOS, somewhere in Apple the code that syncs tabs between devices was ported over from iOS and thus, every time the app quits on macOS, it syncs the tabs that were open when the app quit. I've been following this thread and I hear that the solution is resetting iCloud encryption, but I'm not gonna go through that amount of effort for what's essentially a cosmetic issue.
Has anyone filed a bug report with Apple on this?
Has anyone filed a bug report with Apple on this?
I've filed it under Apple developer feedback tool and no reply yet.
snyp1193 did u just setup your MacBook?
It seems everything that was setup prior to a certain date works fine and everything after that doesn't.
So chances are if u were to Clean setup your iMac u might have the same issue
I purchased a new MacBook Air now 2 months ago. I setup my partners account as a main account. a month ago I decided to setup my account as another user.
I'm having the tab issue. I logged into her account to test it out and on the same MacBook Air she has no issues. The tabs all close upon closing safari
It seems everything that was setup prior to a certain date works fine and everything after that doesn't.
So chances are if u were to Clean setup your iMac u might have the same issue
I purchased a new MacBook Air now 2 months ago. I setup my partners account as a main account. a month ago I decided to setup my account as another user.
I'm having the tab issue. I logged into her account to test it out and on the same MacBook Air she has no issues. The tabs all close upon closing safari
Applesupport has just contacted me to say that this is intended behaviour. Even in their support page it says “Quitting Safari, putting your device to sleep, or turning off your device doesn't remove a tab from the list.“
I have re-explained that that is correct but this is how it has and should continue to work
1.Open Safari on iMac for instance
2.Open 5 tabs
3.Quit Safari and reopen it
4. Safari should open without any tabs. Click iCloud tabs and nothing should be listed since iCloud tab for the same device should not show up.
5. Look at iPhone for instance, under iCloud tab, iMac should still show up with 5 tabs open. <- This is correct behaviour since those tabs were never closed however...
6. On safari on the Mac, open a new tab now
7. On iPhone, look at iCloud tab list and the iMac tab list of 5 tabs should be replaced with just the 1 active tab
Unfortunately in the last 30 days something broke server side and now instead of overwriting the previous devices iCloud tab list it creates a new entry each and every time
I have re-explained that that is correct but this is how it has and should continue to work
1.Open Safari on iMac for instance
2.Open 5 tabs
3.Quit Safari and reopen it
4. Safari should open without any tabs. Click iCloud tabs and nothing should be listed since iCloud tab for the same device should not show up.
5. Look at iPhone for instance, under iCloud tab, iMac should still show up with 5 tabs open. <- This is correct behaviour since those tabs were never closed however...
6. On safari on the Mac, open a new tab now
7. On iPhone, look at iCloud tab list and the iMac tab list of 5 tabs should be replaced with just the 1 active tab
Unfortunately in the last 30 days something broke server side and now instead of overwriting the previous devices iCloud tab list it creates a new entry each and every time
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Have you already told apple support about the creation of a new entry every time instead of overwriting previous devices? Did they accept your argument?
So... I tried this.
It completely messed up my Apple ID. Now I have multiple services that don't work well. My AirPods won't sync anymore, I lost all my passwords, all my calendar events are now in double...
What a mess. I'll try to contact Apple Support but wow, what a pain in the ass. And it didn't resolved the issue with iCloud tabs. Don't even think about trying this.
I went and did all of this and it didn't solve the issue for me. I would not recommend trying this.
Yes it was a replacement 16” MacBook from work so it was a brand new device and set up. I don’t recall my last 16” MacBook doing this so I think your theory is correct.