Safari Offline Reading List Bug

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Safari Offline Reading List Bug

If I save web pages to the reading list in Safari on my iPhone I can follow the links on my iPad. So far so good. However if I then turn my iPad to flight mode the links say "not available for offline viewing".

This is the whole point of the reading list.

If I save the files to the reading list on my iPad they are available for offline viewing on my iPad and iphone.

If I reset the settings on my iPad and log of and in to iCloud it works again on my iPad but just for a few days and then I am back to square 1.

Using iPhone 6S+ and iPad Pro all running 9.3.5

Reported to Apple about 10 times!!

Anybody else with this issue and more importantly is there a fix?

MacBook, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Sep 8, 2016 2:00 AM

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Answer 1

Sep 8, 2016 6:27 AM in response to pagemakers4

Hi. Are you referring to the links in the Safari reading list, or links in the saved pages? If it's links in the saved pages, I believe you need to save each linked page separately, as described here https://help.apple.com/ipad/9/#/iPad3b3c7222.

Oh, I see. You're having trouble transferring the saved pages from your phone to the iPad. This involves a lot more players, doesn't it?

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Answer 2

Sep 8, 2016 6:44 AM in response to Diana.McCall

Have you enabled cellular data for reading list in Settings > Safari on the phone? And I assume you have enabled Safari in the iCloud settings on both devices.

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Answer 3

pagemakers4 Author

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Sep 8, 2016 2:42 PM in response to Diana.McCall

Both devices are connected to the Internet.

On my iPhone I save a webpage to the reading list.

It correctly syncs to my iPad but if I then put the iPad into flight mode the saved web page is no loger viewable and it should be.

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