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iCloud tabs not syncing
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With the release candidates out, do we have a confirmation that the .4 slate of releases addresses this issue?
I installed the release candidate on my desktop (since that already had a beta install earlier in Sequoia), and I can confirm that this issue has -- finally -- been fixed (again).
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For me I saw it fixed with the version before the release candidate. Then when I updated to the release version it was broken again, just one direction, trying to close a tab on my MacBook Pro, it would disappear from the cloud tabs window on all devices but the tab wouldn't actually close on the Mac Studio. Going back the other way, the Studio could close a tab on the MacBook. And Phone could do both. But then I restarted all the Macs and the problem went away, but then came back. SO I'm maybe seeing some intermittent issues?
It acted janky for a little bit in terms of my different devices. I had to toggle off iCloud Safari synching on each device, and that fixed it
I'm still on 14.7.4 Sonoma but updated only Safari to version 18.4 and its working for me again!
Yeah, I’ve tried plenty over the years to “fix” this. Whatever ends up working, it’s only temporary until it gets borked again.
There's 2 tabs showing on my Mac as being opened on my iPad, but they aren't. I've had this happen on my iPhone and iPad before and fixed it by disabling Safari sync in the iCloud settings and then re-enabling, but that doesn't work on the Mac. I think someone posted where Mac stores the opened tabs before. Does anyone have that?
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I found it at ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari/Data/Library/Safari/CloudTabs.db.
The file is quite large.
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I found it at ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari/Data/Library/Safari/CloudTabs.db.
The file is quite large.
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I found this Reddit page and followed the instructions to delete the stuck tabs and they are gone now and iCloud tab syncing still works. I didn't both turning off Safari syncing, though I did close Safari on all my devices.
This fix isn't quite as easy as the one for the iPhone and iPad, but it does work.
This fix isn't quite as easy as the one for the iPhone and iPad, but it does work.
This fix also worked for me on macOS Tahoe 26.0 (25A5338b) Beta 6.
There's also this transcript available just in case: https://manualdousuario.net/en/how-to-remove-stuck-icloud-tabs-in-safari/
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This has been resolved since Catalina. I think OP is trying to necromance this thread into the next decade
Can confirm this problem existed in Sonoma so like 4 years after Catalina. Now the "zombie" tabs issue I was having earlier this year with Sequoia wasn't the same issue as back then but similar in that you could see tabs that had been closed, they just weren't persistent and reappear after being closed/removed.
I've not yet tried to switch back to the main profile after creating a second profile as a work around. So no idea if issue carried over to MacOS 26 and iOS 26.
same.. I have been using a second profile as the main and the sync is perfect. I tried going back to the main profile and deleted the second profile a few weeks ago to see if this was resolved. It wasn't. So I'm back to the second profile as main method.
That’s just incorrect. It was still happening to me on iOS / iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia just a few weeks ago. Though that time it later corrected itself. I don’t have any issues right now (currently on OS 26).
Tabs are still working for me on my iMac (without profiles). I've got safari 26 however my OS is on 14.8 Sonoma and my iPhone is running iOS 16.7.12.