iCloud "tabs" not working

I was having the same problem, then I noticed the footnote on Apple's Mountain Lion features page that says "iCloud Tabs on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch requires iOS 6." (http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html#safari).

Looks like for now we can only sync tabs between Mac's - not mobile devices.

Looks like Mountain Lions features will work once the new iOS comes out. Apple should have released them together. So far the set up for Mountain Lion is proving to be a few thumbs down. Maybe when iOS comes out it will work the way it is saying and the features will be there as well.

I'm running iOS 6 on the New iPad and so far iCloud Tabs leave a lot to be desired. I currently have three tabs open in Safari on my Mac running Mountain Lion and six tabs on my iPad. When I click on the iCloud button the tabs that show open on the other device are tabs I had open yesterday.

I know it is still in Beta but right now this feature is leaving a lot to be desired.

Seems kinda dumb to release this feature now, when iOS 6 is still on mystery date time.

I would have to agree with you all. It has been puzzling me for a while, when I suddenly thought I would try you guys out.

I can do you one better. I am not running the beta of iOS 6, but the feature was actually working for me for a little over a week and suddenly today it stopped working. Better yet, AppleCare did not know that you had to have iOS 6 for this feature to work, so they created a case and put me through an hour's work of ridiculous attempts at "trouble-shooting" on 2 separate phone calls. There's even a support article that gives steps to resolve this issue, which doesn't mention needing iOS 6.

At the 40min mark of call #2 I found this thread in the forums and informed the agent. He thought it was funny. He just kept laughing and laughing about it. I told him it was lame and a complete waste of my time. He said, "I'm not happy about it, either." Then went back to laughing. I still have no idea how or why this feature worked from Aug 28-Sept 4. He said, "They must have been testing the feature..." But of course, it wouldn't have been available to me on iOS 5.1.1 if that was the case, but whatever...

It's amazing to me that 2 separate Techs and their Supervisors at AppleCare could not figure out that you have to have iOS 6 for this feature to be active.

AppleCare is just not what it was 2-3 years ago. I continuously have to resolve my own issues while on long calls.

I'll say the feature was pretty cool when it was working.

What is possible for the time being, though, is to bookmark a page on a different device (I am using an iPhone running iOS 5.1.1) and add the bookmark to the Bookmarks Bar.

Surely, iCould Tabs will be brilliant, but for now, at least I don't have to type in the address of the eight (8) tabs I currently have open in Safari on iOS in order to wipe it clean of data (which I do from time to time).

I know this isn't what you were looking for, but at least there's a way to get your open tabs on a different device on to your Mac without much nuisance.

This is sort of like advertising the Facebook intergration and then release it a few weeks after in OS X 10.8.1. I sure did look for it for a while before realising it wasn't in the 10.8.0 release.

Make sure your not on private browsing on your iphone...

Settings, Safari, private browsing....

mine was on for some reason?

all good now....

Takes ages for iPhone tabs to appear on the Mac, and wise versa. I guess "it just works" no longer applies to Apple.

I updated all my devices to iOS 6 and am still not able to browse tabs open on one device on another. I see the iCloud button, but when I click it it still doesn't give me other tabs. Anyone else still experiencing this! How did you fix it?

I just updated to iOS6 and it didn't work. Then I turned private browsing on, on my iphone, Kept all tabs, then turned it off and kept all tabs again. It's working now.

iPad shows MBP tabs; MBP does not show iPad tabs.

Anyone...any ideas?

Thanks!

[iOS 6 on iPad 3; MBP 15 running 10.8.2 ]

Make sure you have Safari enabled via settings - iCloud on the iPad and MBP. Then give it about 30 seconds to show up.

I was having the same problem but I noticed that you have to make sure private browsing is off on all of your devices for it to work. When its off on all devices then it will still take a lil while for it to come through. When it works it's pretty cool. I have a mac pro and an iphone4s so I wondered if the screen would be tiny but I forgot about the option for a desktop version on the webpages.