So Safari 11 broke iCloud tab syncing

Thanks for reporting this to Apple. I suppose there is a vague chance something might eventually happen. I have exactly this issue:

iMac and MacBook Air both on Sierra - no tabs shared between them.

But both show my iPad (OS10) and iPhone (OS11).

No tabs from iMac/Air appear on iPad/Phone.

It's bizarre, because the history and bookmarks sync perfectly between all four.

Frustrating!

I have the exakt same problem. My iOS 11 devices sync their tabs to each other. The tabs from my MacBook Pro with macOS 10.11.6 and Safari 11 are on my iOS devices too. But no tabs from iOS 11 in Safari 11 on the Mac since I updated to Safari 11. Unfortunately I also updated my iOS devices at nearly the same time to iOS 11.

First I blamed Safari 11, but then I tested an iPhone 4S with iOS 9.5.3, and it showed up on all my devices including the Mac with Safari 11.

For another test I updated my wifes's MacBook to Safari 11 on El Capitan. The result was that her iPad with iOS 10.3.3 and her iPhone 4S with iOS 9.5.3 show tabs on her Mac and the Mac tabs are on her iOS devices.

Now I think iOS 11 is the culprit!

Yes I confirm that iOS 11 does not sync tabs with Safari 11 on macOS El Capitan.

I think I have die Answer now.

Among all the things I have done ( found in this thread) - on the older iOS (9.x.x) I have turned Safari sync with iCloud off, but selected to retain the local data. This seems to have spoiled the Magic. After turning the Safari sync back on - nothing changed.

Yesterday I summoned all my courage and choose to remove the data. Ended up with empty Bookmarks Bar in a blank Safari. Couple of minutes later ( could have been an hour) went back to iCloud Settings and turned the Safari Syncronisation back on selecting to merge the local and cloud Data.

The Bookmarks synchronized back almost instantly, so, relieved I did not bother checking the rest.

Now, when I check on my iOS 11 iPhone I can confirm, that the iPad’s Safari tabs are listed right after the High Sierra MacBooks tabs.

Playing around confirmed, that they sync instantly.

So this should be it. It works now

I think I have die Answer now.

Among all the things I have done ( found in this thread) - on the older iOS (9.x.x) I have turned Safari sync with iCloud off, but selected to retain the local data. This seems to have spoiled the Magic. After turning the Safari sync back on - nothing changed.

Yesterday I summoned all my courage and choose to remove the data. Ended up with empty Bookmarks Bar in a blank Safari. Couple of minutes later ( could have been an hour) went back to iCloud Settings and turned the Safari Syncronisation back on selecting to merge the local and cloud Data.

The Bookmarks synchronized back almost instantly, so, relieved I did not bother checking the rest.

Now, when I check on my iOS 11 iPhone I can confirm, that the iPad’s Safari tabs are listed right after the High Sierra MacBooks tabs.

Playing around confirmed, that they sync instantly.

So this should be it. It works n

Nice, but you are talking about syncing safari 11 with iOS 11, problem is syncing safari 11 with older ios like iOS 10.3.3.

My iPhone 5s turned with IOS 11 to useless brick, so I have bought new iPhone with preinstalled IOS 10.2 and remain on that and now it wont sync tabs because of safari 11?

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Kosta,

the problem is the old devices that cannot be updated do not communicate with ios11. iOS 11 will sync all data from the old devices.

One tech told me to sign out of iCloud. I lost all my photo stream photos in the devices I turned off my iCloud & signed back in. Only my iPhone retained them because I did not turn off iCloud.

after about 15 different SENIOR APPLECARE techs, one of them looked it up in their tech manual.

The only way your devices will synchronize if all are on the same ios11.

Conclusion:

Apple wants us to trade in our old devices!!

It won't be fixed in all likelihood as it is a 'feature' rather than a bug. It'd be much faster to downgrade back to iOS 10 than waiting for Apple to take pity on users who want a stable and fast iPhone.

Yes, this is my conclusion too. Designed obsolescence.

This one is a dumb move on Apple's part. The strongest reason for staying with Apple is their multi-device ecosystem. It makes it hard to change to non-Apple products. However, in this case, Apple is breaking their own ecosystem. Guess what? Chrome and Firefox will still sync tabs across all of my devices. Bye-bye Safari.

Apple just gave up one of the pillars of its ecosystem in my house. My dependency on Apple just got weaker.

P.S. Apple - getting rid of 'disable cache' in the developer menu and replacing it with a manual 'empty caches' command in the latest version of safari was also dumb. What value do you get from making developers lives' harder?

From my MacBook Pro (high Sierra) I can see what tabs are open on my other devices but when I click on them, nothing happens. They do not open on my MacBook.

I think Apple is releasing too many things that are not fully functional as well as arbitrarily changing how things work and where you access them.

I also filed a bug report and encourage others to do the same.

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this is the problem with me. I've got all the options out there, but there's nothing else so far.

this is the problem with me. I've got all the options out there, but there's nothing else so far.

With a little BUT - but I only see the older device's tabs on the new OSes. I can open them, kill them. It keeps In-sync.

But I cannot see the newer devices' tabs on the older iOS.

Ios11 is supposed to be compatible with iPhone 5S. If not, you should call AppleCare & make them pay for your new phone!