Safari tabs not syncing from new M2 MacBook Air

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Safari tabs not syncing from new M2 MacBook Air

Setup of my new M2 MacBook Air went smoothly EXCEPT its Safari tabs are not syncing with my other devices.

My MBA sees table from all other devices (4) while all the others see all the others EXCEPT the MBA.

All with same Apple ID. Have tried the untick Safari option in iCloud method on all devices and reboot, but the M2 MBA just won't show up.

All devices are on latest OS version.

It's now 5 days old, so they should have synced by now!

MacBook Air Apple Silicon

Posted on Oct 8, 2022 12:04 PM

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Eric Root

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Oct 8, 2022 1:25 PM in response to Thunderclutch

Last resort. On the MBA, have you tried signing out of iCloud, restarting, and then signing back in?

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Answer 2

Oct 18, 2022 3:42 PM in response to Eric Root

Actually, signing out of iCloud, restarting, and then signing back in only achieved adding the MBA tabs to the Mac mini, but resulted in the Mac mini tabs disappearing from my MBA, iPhone and iPad.

The complete solution was to then sign out of and back into the Mac mini as well.

Such a pain Apple does tell you this, even more of a pain that you ever need to do it!

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Answer 3

Oct 18, 2022 11:46 PM in response to Thunderclutch

So the final solution was to sign out of iCloud on my Mac mini, wait a few minutes until internet activity died down, then shut it down, then wait for 4 hours before booting and signing into iCloud again.

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Answer 4

Oct 18, 2022 4:41 PM in response to Thunderclutch

Actually, NO! So now:

Mac mini sees MBA, iPhone and iPad

iPhone sees iPad and MBA

iPad sees iPhone and MBA

.... the Mac mini has vanished from Safari iCloud tabs.

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Safari tabs not syncing from new M2 MacBook Air

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