Safari History Not Syncing Across iCloud

Apple is a big joke. Since IOS 11 handoff doesn't work anymore across Mac, iPhone and iPad, Safari history isn't synchronize anymore. Instead of helping people Apple arrogant moderators delete comments. Well done aplle!

Apple doesn’t routinely monitor the discussions. These are mostly user to user discussions.

Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem or a suggestion for change. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem/suggested change solved sooner.

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I have same issue between iPhone 6+ and MacBook Pro w Touch Bar. I tried everything expect creating new account. I even deleted devices from iCloud. Didn't help because after I restored it it showed history from my iPhone and MacBook again. And it doesn't matter if you clear it or not... Dear Apple please help!!!

Hi Eric. I already informed Apple and didn't get help. They can only sort out standard problems. That is why I decided too post here. What I think must be done and somehow to clean Safari history in iCloud because it doesn't matter if I delete devices from iCloud or wipe them I still have history back and it is always individual for each device. I was thinking to create a new iCloud but doubt that it will solve a problem and I prefer to keep current active.

I have cleared history, turned Safari off/on in the iCloud settings, signed out and back into iCloud, deleted this history DB files on the Macs, rebooted.

Have you done this in Settings on the devices, except for the DB part?

Try the Linc Davis solution in this thread:

Safari does not store history or sync my iCloud bookmarks

C.

You are wise to be cautious. The posting is probably okay because:

• Linc Davis has a very high number of points
• the posting has been up a couple of months and has been would have been taken down by the community by now if it had been harmful,
• it's worked for at least one person,
• it's been recommended by someone with a reasonably high number of points (me).

Linc Davis is notable for providing very detailed instructions, but in essence, Step 1 is a quick and dirty reset the permissions of your home folder and the current temporary folder to sensible defaults. Step 2 is a more comprehensive but less convenient method of doing the the essentially same thing.

Try on one Mac and if that doesn't work, try the other.

C.

Hello jdag,

Did you find a solution about your Safari History syncing issue?

It came back to me, when I cleared the history from my Mac...

Now the history sync from my iPhone to my Mac, not the other way around... weird issue. I guess time will make it work fine.

Hello jdag, thanks for your reply.

I had the same issue as you until now, I was finding something to get my history sync back...

My problem was between my iPhone and MacBook Pro Retina.

The history wasn't syncing for 2 days, after I restored the iPhone.

I tried to delete history many times. Nothing.

This evening I try something simple, I simply delete a website from my favorites on my Mac, I checked it was also gone on the iPhone. Then I deleted another one on the iPhone this time. I checked it was also gone on the Mac. Then on the iPhone I put back the website that I deleted previously. I checked on the Mac it was also back. I did the same thing for the 2nd website on the Mac and I checked on my iPhone.

For some reason, I checked the history, and all the websites on my Mac history from this morning (last time I deleted history from devices) arrived on my iPhone. Then I checked on the Mac, same thing. All the websites from this morning was on my Mac in the history.

For some reason, I think that changing the favorites has impact on the history.

Sad news...

The only thing to solve your issue is to create a brand new iCloud ID.

I had this issue too with an old one.

At that time, I think that the switch to iCloud Drive messed up everything...