Old iPhone iCloud tabs show up in Mac Safari

Still I cannot solve it. The zombie reappears when I open or close Safari on iPhone.

I gave up.

What I suggested did not work. Please ignore post.

I think this is an iCloud bug. No matter what, the old tabs keep coming back. This started about mid- to late June.

I'd tried every solution recommended and i couldn't solve the problem.

But I finally solved it!!! This is the real one! Thanks :)

I am having this issue as well on a new iPad Pro. I found several threads on these forums about the issue.

In iCloud tabs on my new iPad Pro, there are a hundred or more “open” tabs from my 12 Pro and previous iPad. My tabs are set to auto-close after a day, and I have cleared history on all devices and toggled iCloud for Safari. (I haven’t signed out because it’s a pain setting up Apple Pay cards.)

Like you, mine seem to start from last November. There are tabs about the election.

Edit: At first when I tried closing the tabs, they immediately reappeared. Upon trying again they (hopefully) stayed closed. We’ll see if they come back.

Edit 2: They came back. :(

Edit 3: I noticed that as soon as I opened Safari on the devices, the tabs reappeared. So I disabled iCloud for Safari on one of those devices and then deleted the tabs on my iPad showing the tabs. I have to figure out what to do with my iPhone because I do want iCloud enabled. Those tabs are still showing.

Thanks. That will be my last resort. I hate removing Apple Pay cards because sometimes Amex blocks adding them back, and I have to call in.

I disabled iCloud for Safari on one device and then closed the tabs. They’ve remained closed, but I still have the tabs from another device.

I had “phantom tabs” showing up on my new iPhone that opened on my iPad about 6 months ago. In my research on how to resolve this, I read that it could have been caused by renaming a device, and I had renamed my iPad in the past. At any rate, after trying many of the suggestions I read online to no avail, here is what ultimately worked for me:

1. Sign out of iCloud on my iPad

2. Using another device, in my case I used my Mac, open Safari’s Start Page and begin closing the “phantom tabs” appearing under my iPad’s name one-by-one by right-clicking and choosing ‘Close’.

3. Clear all website data in Safari settings on the iPad after having signed out of iCloud

4. Sign back into iCloud on the iPad

5. As a test, open a new tab and browse to any website.

Then… I waited. After a few minutes all of the old “phantom tabs” were gone and the website I opened in step 5 as a test was the only 1 appearing across my Mac and iPhone. I hope this works for someone else.

Thank you stoavio, this worked for my situation.