iOS 18 Safari tabs not syncing via iCloud

I’m here not to answer but to say I’m having exactly the same issue. Used to mostly work fine. Now my iPhone can see tabs from iPad , but not vice versa, and none from my MacBook. Rebooting and turning off iCloud tabs did nothing. I’m in Spain. I updated two days ago and they were working on iOS 18, but today stopped. 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

so frustrating.

I've also noticed the same problem and I'm very much annoyed with this bug and the fact that it hasn't been fixed with the latest 18.0.1 update. iCloud tabs and its seamless syncing across devices has been my primary reason in sticking with Safari and now it's just straight up a complete mess.

Closing tabs on other devices does not actually close them, open tabs don't automatically show up, and the new interface looks ugly with the blown up icons and the drop down menu to choose between devices is now unintuitive.

I wonder what makes Apple keep making unnecessary changes to ruin what otherwise has been a perfectly fine feature and experience.

Still getting this on 15.1/18.1. Manually toggling sync on iOS and macOS will update the tabs, but they won't update on their own after that. I really fail to see how Apple keeps breaking working features.

Same worked fine for me up through iOS 17 but now same problem you have on 18

Same here. Closed tabs become ZOMBIES on other devices! New tabs I want to continue with never show!

Same issues! I have to AirDrop pages from my MacBook to my iPhone or the reverse because the tabs showing are either old closed tabs that there anymore or the current ones just don't show up. It's so frustrating. The only time it ever works is if I sign out a back in on my both devices or clear histories and restart the browsers but then it only works for a day if that.

Same problem :-(

Same issue, seems to be a thing as I know at least two other people having the same problem.

not the first time Apple breaks syncing for the tabs.... Not sure if this stuff is even tested before they release updates.

I had a glimpse of hope yesterday when my iPad started to show only the active tabs open on my other devices, but today when I turned it on and opened safari the problem presented itself again with zombie tabs and sync not working properly :(

18.2/15.2 now, and I still have to use this workaround

It seems like it's kind of starting to work a little bit for me now. I saw some recent tabs from my iPhone this morning on my Mac, but I had to toggle iCloud sync to get tabs from my Mac back on my phone.

Same issue here. I can only really repeat what’s already been said: I don’t understand why Apple insists on breaking things that worked fine to begin with in the name of “innovation”, but hopefully someone will read this thread and take note.

Okay, force closing Safari and reopening it will update the tabs. It's just not pinging iCloud to update on its own for some reason.