I believe using another browser is an instant fix.
But since Apple, being Apple, doesn't let the other browsers have an equal playing field, it's been tough (in fact, there's no "field" to begin with on iOS, and every browser is just forced to be Safari over there).
Those phantom/stuck tabs that keep reappearing even after you delete all of them on iCloud Tabs page in another machine, and those tabs were anyway deleted from the device where they were being shown opened as. They only disappear when you do the whole shebang of killing Safari on all the devices of that iCloud account (and having deleted those tabs) and then deleting some SQ Lite DB files on the Mac (because of course you can't do that on an iOS). Every single time that happens.
It has to be so frequent sometimes it has started to feel disgusting after feeling frustrating for so long.
And then you ask yourself - why do we have to do this again and again in the middle of 20-damn-26 when the entire world has figured it out, including some browsers and apps that are maintained by possibly just a single person (even before LLMs were an assistive force)!
I just hope Apple isn't using their own models for coding assistance or for anything software for the love of anything software.
It is known (and no, as usual, this is not an attempt at hurting the sentiments of the fruit company followers or true believers, but rather a discussion/venting, or even sympathy, hopefully from consumers of their devices) that Apple's software writing/maintaining prowess is subpar (and that's often an understatement, put mildly like this), it still boggles my head that this multi-trillion dollar company has been unable to fix this for years.
They try to hide their software ineptitude by keeping their platforms closed and opaque, by not letting users have open access to bug reports, and of course, they don't believe in transparent and responsible feedback and follow-ups. Hell, their support asks you to wipe the entire Mac and reinstall everything if it's a Safari issue, on a call that lasts for a few hours (usually multiple sessions having gone "support expertise" level up and up and up). Of course, they helpfully remind you to back up and inform you that if you haven't bought the iCloud plan buying it could help. And yes, of course, you can't help but notice that it's the sheer unreliability of iCloud you were complaining about in the first place.
All of this starts feeling Kafkasque pretty quick, especially if you are not invested in the trillion-making cause spiritually.
Or are they waiting to fix and release it as
? Yeah, that might be it. Especially for an upgrade release year when the only significant upgrade they would be able to come up with (which actually happens often) is to tweak the dimensions by a few millimeters along with shifting the cameras by a cm or two in random directions.
So what would it take for Apple to fix the perpetual iCloud Tabs? Among other dozens (I think I can't say hundreds without enraging too many folks, so dozens it is) of bugs that has been living in Apple machines, and possibly their users' minds, rent free forever. Some of those bugs are so ancient that you start doubting yourselves, and can't help but feel from time to time, that those must be features and it's rather you who is holding it wrong.
But since Apple, being Apple, doesn't let the other browsers have an equal playing field, it's been tough (in fact, there's no "field" to begin with on iOS, and every browser is just forced to be Safari over there).
Those phantom/stuck tabs that keep reappearing even after you delete all of them on iCloud Tabs page in another machine, and those tabs were anyway deleted from the device where they were being shown opened as. They only disappear when you do the whole shebang of killing Safari on all the devices of that iCloud account (and having deleted those tabs) and then deleting some SQ Lite DB files on the Mac (because of course you can't do that on an iOS). Every single time that happens.
It has to be so frequent sometimes it has started to feel disgusting after feeling frustrating for so long.
And then you ask yourself - why do we have to do this again and again in the middle of 20-damn-26 when the entire world has figured it out, including some browsers and apps that are maintained by possibly just a single person (even before LLMs were an assistive force)!
I just hope Apple isn't using their own models for coding assistance or for anything software for the love of anything software.
It is known (and no, as usual, this is not an attempt at hurting the sentiments of the fruit company followers or true believers, but rather a discussion/venting, or even sympathy, hopefully from consumers of their devices) that Apple's software writing/maintaining prowess is subpar (and that's often an understatement, put mildly like this), it still boggles my head that this multi-trillion dollar company has been unable to fix this for years.
They try to hide their software ineptitude by keeping their platforms closed and opaque, by not letting users have open access to bug reports, and of course, they don't believe in transparent and responsible feedback and follow-ups. Hell, their support asks you to wipe the entire Mac and reinstall everything if it's a Safari issue, on a call that lasts for a few hours (usually multiple sessions having gone "support expertise" level up and up and up). Of course, they helpfully remind you to back up and inform you that if you haven't bought the iCloud plan buying it could help. And yes, of course, you can't help but notice that it's the sheer unreliability of iCloud you were complaining about in the first place.
All of this starts feeling Kafkasque pretty quick, especially if you are not invested in the trillion-making cause spiritually.
Or are they waiting to fix and release it as
? Yeah, that might be it. Especially for an upgrade release year when the only significant upgrade they would be able to come up with (which actually happens often) is to tweak the dimensions by a few millimeters along with shifting the cameras by a cm or two in random directions.
So what would it take for Apple to fix the perpetual iCloud Tabs? Among other dozens (I think I can't say hundreds without enraging too many folks, so dozens it is) of bugs that has been living in Apple machines, and possibly their users' minds, rent free forever. Some of those bugs are so ancient that you start doubting yourselves, and can't help but feel from time to time, that those must be features and it's rather you who is holding it wrong.
