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My iOS devices are syncing my Reading List and Bookmarks fine, but my Mac won't, not even on a newly created account. Wondering if it's a general bug or something wrong with my Mac. Is it working for anyone? (Just add/remove a bookmark and see if it syncs, maybe?)
It's not clear which device was the removal/addition done
on and which is not syncing the change.
FWIW, I deleted a bookmark on my iMac and it synced to my iPhone,
then I deleted a bookmark on my iPhone and it synced to the iMac.
iMac-Catalina, iPhone-iOS 13.1.2
Did you make sure Safari is checked in your iCloud settings?
It's not clear which device was the removal/addition done
on and which is not syncing the change.
FWIW, I deleted a bookmark on my iMac and it synced to my iPhone,
then I deleted a bookmark on my iPhone and it synced to the iMac.
iMac-Catalina, iPhone-iOS 13.1.2
Did you make sure Safari is checked in your iCloud settings?
ah yes. I should have been clearer. My iCloud account has bookmarks, and they are not synced into the Mac. I never see any of them.
safari is indeed checked in iCloud.
thanks to both of you for replying. Looks like I should try a reinstall and see what happens.
Do you have the firewall turned on? (System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Firewall) I was having tons of weird networking problems, like Safari bookmarks not syncing, websites not loading, DNS not resolving, and remote filesystems being very slow. Then I noticed in Console under Crash Reports that socketfilterfw kept crashing. When I turned off the Firewall, everything started working. The firewall had not changed since Mojave and still appeared to be configured correctly, but something seems to be wrong with it in Catalina for me.
I'm also experiencing Safari bookmarks sync problems after upgrading my MacBook Pro to Catalina and iPhone XS to iOS 13.
The issue is: after doing some editing on my bookmarks (adding, deleting, etc.), the changes simply don't sync to the other device.
I've tried rebooting, turning off the firewall in macOS (possible fix mentioned in several threads), deleting all bookmaks on both devices and recreating the structure from scratch, verified Date & Time settings. Even after doing a clean install of macOS and resetting all content and settings on my iPhone, I still have the same problem. Sometimes it may start working for a while, but it always gets to the point where it simply isn't syncing anymore.
It is for me.
Thanks Russell. Could you tell me exactly what you did to test it? Just want to give it a shot too before biting the bullet and doing a reinstall.
Same problems for me! I am being troubled.
I did a clean install and it is syncing bookmarks fine now. I’m not sure if installing Catalina again over the previous installation would have worked - I skipped that escalation step.
Oh how interesting! The firewall is on now on my clean install and it seems to work fine. I don't remember seeing anything about socketfilterfw crashing on my old install though.
Is Safari sync working for anyone in Catalina?
