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mattspace Author

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30 points

iCloud Safari tabs Missing on Mac

I just updated both my iPad Air and iPhone SE to iOS 10.2.1, and since then, Safari on my Mac is no longer showing any iCloud tabs for my iOS devices.

The iOS devices are both showing the Mac's browser tabs, and both showing each other's but on the mac, there's nothing in the area where they'd normally show.

The Mac is running MacOS X 10.10.5 Yosemite, and Safari 10.0.3 (10.0.2 was also effected).

Disabling all browser extensions has no effect. Switching iCloud tabs off and on on all 3 devices has no effect, logging the Mac out of iCloud and back in has no effect, rebooting the Mac has no effect.

All other iCloud functions like bookmarks and reading list work, as does Handoff, Continuity, Airdrop etc.

Any suggestions?

Posted on Feb 2, 2017 2:42 AM

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mattspace Author

Level 1

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Posted on Feb 5, 2017 6:30 PM

I added the button, but it's not a solution - normally, you hit the "Show All Tabs" button, and it'll give you a thumbnail view of all your tabs on the local machine, below which is a list of all other tabs on other devices.

That area where the list is supposed to be is blank, and after adding the iCloud Tabs button, clicking it just brings up an empty box with a description of what iCloud tabs are supposed to do.

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mattspace Author

Level 1

30 points

Feb 7, 2017 1:53 AM in response to mattspace

Screenshot to illustrate the problem. "Altar" is the Mac.

Paitin

Level 1

8 points

Sep 17, 2017 5:06 PM in response to mattspace

Re: iCloud Safari tabs Missing on Mac

A restart of your safari will fix it

Eric Root

Level 10

684,063 points

Feb 2, 2017 12:46 PM in response to mattspace

Have you added iCloud tabs to the Toolbar? Safari/View/Customize Toolbar.

Eric Root

Level 10

684,063 points

Feb 6, 2017 12:40 PM in response to mattspace

Did you try System Preferences/iCloud and uncheck Safari sync, wait a couple of minutes, and then check the box again?

markmcil

Level 1

8 points

Jun 5, 2017 6:13 AM in response to mattspace

ditto, needs a fix

Jun 21, 2017 8:44 AM in response to mattspace

I just tried this and it worked perfect! I can see all of my iOS tabs on both iPad and iPhone. Thanks!

WilkyF18

Level 1

4 points

Jul 8, 2017 1:03 PM in response to mattspace

I am also on 10.10.5 on my iMac. Seems to be a bug in OS X. Is Apple going to fix this and push a 10.10.6?

Mr609

Level 1

5 points

Sep 18, 2017 4:00 AM in response to Paitin

If ur talking about quoting and restarting safari, ur wrong. It doesn’t work. Are you talking about completely resetting safari??

Cin168

Level 1

8 points

Sep 21, 2017 9:08 PM in response to mattspace

I have a similar problem but the exact opposite as everyone else. My iMac can see the open safari tabs from my iOS devices, but the IOS devices do not show the iMac open safari tabs.

Sep 21, 2017 9:13 PM in response to Cin168

I had this problem but some one suggested me to turn off safari from icloud and turn it on it will start working and that actually worked

skorolev

Level 1

21 points

Sep 28, 2017 1:38 PM in response to mattspace

I have a similar problem but the exact opposite as everyone else. My iMac can see the open safari tabs from my iOS devices, but the IOS devices do not show the iMac open safari tabs.

iCloud Safari tabs Missing on Mac