Safari tabs from ios devices no longer showing on Mac Book

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Safari tabs from ios devices no longer showing on Mac Book

I just noticed that my iPhone safari tabs no longer show on my MacBook. And vice-versa: my MacBook tabs no longer show on my iPhone. Same for my iPad.

This used to work. I don't use the feature very often, so I can't tell when this stopped working. It might have been a while (like several weeks)

I can see my MacBook favorites on the iPhone, so it looks like that syncing still works.

MacBook: macOs High Sierra version: 10.13.6, Safari version 13.0.3

iPhone: iOs version 13.2.3

Could that be due to OS incompatibilities ?

Posted on Dec 8, 2019 9:43 AM

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agodfrin Author

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Jan 14, 2020 6:47 AM in response to Eric Root

For closure: I upgraded my MacBook to Catalina. Now my iPhone tabs appear on the mac and vice versa.

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Eric Root

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Dec 8, 2019 11:02 AM in response to agodfrin

Others not using Catalina have posted the same problem. Based on a few posts I have read, the synced data gets encoded in IOS13, so earlier OS/IOS versions can't read the data. IOS 13 can't read data that isn't encoded.

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Safari tabs from ios devices no longer showing on Mac Book

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