Safari history not syncing to iPhone.

Hi BatteriesNotIncluded,

If your Mac is under macOS Catalina 10.15 and your iPhone under iOS 13.1.2, don't worry, I have the same issue.

In fact, all my history from iPhone goes to the Mac, the opposite doesn't work.

My girlfriend has the same issue with her iPhone and iPad and my grandma as well (iPhone/iPad also).

The only workaround I’ve found so far, is to turn off Safari in iCloud (on the iPhone), wait a few minutes, then turn it back on. It forces the data to download to the iPhone. But antytime you're browsing on the Mac, if you want the history to sync, you have to redo the process on iPhone to fetch the data. I hope iOS 13.2 will solve the problem.

Let me know if you found another solution ;)

If your phone is running IOS 13, there have been a few posts about Safari not syncing and the suggestion that perhaps Catalina is required for the sync to be normal.

Same issue here since iOS 13, iPadOS 13 and macOS Catalina. First, my iPad synced with my MacBook Pro, but not my iPhone. Then, both synced with my MacBook. Last week, my iPad stopped syncing with my Mac and iPhone was OK. But since today… neither the iPhone nor the iPad sync anymore automatically with the Mac.

The above mentioned workaround is the only solution to force sync with both I(Pad)OS devices.

You are welcome.

It's normal, iPad is running iPadOS.

And it's also normal that your bookmarks, tabs, reading list... are syncing.

The history sync does't work the same... since the beginning with macOS Yosemite, it has always been weird. Sometimes it doesn't work, sometimes it works with delay and sometimes it works just fine. In iCloud it doesn't follow the same process.

Mostly because of security and privacy issues I guess. And now with macOS Catina, iPadOS and iOS 13 it's encrypted end to end.